Martial Arts
UFC 333: Alexander Volkanovski and the Physical Cost of Matchmaking After the Title RunAfter UFC 333, Alexander Volkanovski’s name returned to the center of a...
UFC 333: Volkanovski, Oliveira and the Test of a Matchmaking MachineIn the early morning in Shenzhen, I replayed the UFC 333 footage while the ci...
UFC 331: Joshua Van Is No Longer a Prodigy, and Gable Steveson Learns a 12-Second LessonTwo men stepped into the UFC 331 cage carrying the same assignment: prove the...
Ippon in Tokyo, Handcuffs in Kumamoto: The Unpadded Fall of Tomofumi TakajoThe tatami at the Tokyo Grand Slam in December 2026 smelled of new rubber...
UFC 333: Old Warriors and the Wounds That Never HealWhen Alexander Volkanovski walked out of the cage at UFC 333, I did not see a...
HBF Meets BoxRec: A Record Is a Condition, Not an AchievementIn closed-door meetings like this one, the detail I remember last is always...
The Las Vegas Killing and the Forgotten Labor Judgment of Red Boxing InternationalLas Vegas, late on a weekend night, a gunshot rang out in a block that held a...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: 13 Weight Classes, One Ring, and the Empty Boxes on the Entry SheetOctober 20, Before the Festival Even Opens The gymnasium of a public-service...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Six Men's Divisions and the Blank Space Above 63.5 kgAt 6 a.m. on 22 October, the lights came on in the gymnasium while the sky wa...
The Empty Record: How a Data Gap Is Shaping Vietnam's Combat SportsOn a fight night in Ho Chi Minh City a few seasons ago, the announcer read ou...
When the Numbers Go Silent: Why I Cannot Write a Decent AnalysisIn December 2026 I sat in front of a screen with a homemade stat table on...
Tran Thi Cam Tu’s World Karate Silver: Reading the 0-6 Gap CorrectlyInside the arena in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, the electronic scoreboard jumped t...
Tran Thi Cam Tu: the 0-6 kumite silver and the -59kg weight-class forkThe electronic scoreboard in Bielsko-Biała read 0-6. There was no bell to sav...
Jena Bishop Rallies to Outpoint Liz Carmouche for Inaugural PFL Women's Flyweight CrownJena Bishop defeated Liz Carmouche by unanimous 48-47 scores on all three...
Jena Bishop and the 48-47 Moment: How PFL's Inaugural Belt Was Decided by a Single RoundThe night closed with three scorecards returning the same number: 48-47. Jena...
Jena Bishop and the Inaugural Belt: When a Fight Is Decided by 60 Seconds of SilenceThere was a moment in the first round that nobody in the arena noticed. Liz...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: When a Round Is Scored by Margin of Error, Not by PunchesJena Bishop won the PFL women's flyweight title on three 48-47 scorecards. Bu...
Bishop Rallies Past Carmouche for PFL Gold: 48-47 and Three Silent Minutes in the Locker RoomThe scorecard read 48-47. Three judges, one number. But it took fourteen...
Vietnam Opens Its Gold Account at ASIAD 2026: Women's Team Kata, Three Routines and a Gap Nobody Has ReadThe report from the women's team kata competition day at ASIAD 2026 leaves a...
Short Hair, Eight Teams and the Succession Equation: Decoding Vietnam's Women's Team Kata Gold at Asiad 20On the afternoon of September 22, at the arena in Aichi, three neatly cropped...
Undefeated at 16-0 Yet Cut by the UFC: When a Perfect Record Is Not Enough to Buy a Roster SpotThe Moment No One Filmed There is a moment in combat sports that no camera...
Undefeated at 16-0 Yet Released by UFC: When Winning Is No Longer a Safe TicketIn late July, at a gym in South Florida, Farid Basharat sat staring at his...
UFC declines to re-sign Farid Basharat despite the fighter's 16-0 recordTen of the 11 UFC wins belonging to the Basharat brothers were decided by the...
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: Analyzing the Gap Between a Winning Streak and Commercial ValueOn Thursday, when news of Farid Basharat's official departure from the UFC wa...
