Martial Arts
UFC 333 Analysis: Alexander Volkanovski and a Wave of New Challenges After Fight NightUFC 333 has come to a close, leaving behind significant reverberations and a...
RAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Faces Gracie After 22 Days, Blades Defends Zero-Points-Conceded Run Against MirTwenty-Two Days On October 23, Arman Tsarukyan stepped onto the RAF 14 mat. O...
Combat Sports Have No Shared Yardstick: When the Fight File Comes Back EmptyAt two in the morning in Incheon, I opened an analysis file for a combat spor...
An Empty Combat-Sports File, and Why I Refused to Name a Single FighterOn Tuesday morning, at my desk in Busan, I opened a file sent from the...
Yin Zhiping, Lü Wende, Shi Lang: where wuxia fiction rewrites the historical recordIn 2026, on the path leading up Mount Hua, a group of Taoist priests blocked...
An Empty Gym in Transfer Season: Combat Sports Writing and the Discipline of Silence5:40 in the morning, the basement of an old building in eastern Tokyo. The...
The Death of a Philippine Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor JudgmentA robbery in Las Vegas, a gunshot, and a name the press called a boxing...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera Stops Meyer at 0:46 of Round 4 — The Data Shows a Skill Gap, Not a 13cm Height GapRound four, the clock stopped at 0:46. Meyer lay face down on the canvas at t...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival in Ho Chi Minh City: Reading the Weight-Class Architecture Before the First BellAt six in the morning on 22 October, the Wai Kru music will play inside the...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Why the Men's Divisions Stop at 63.5 kgOn the morning of October 22, at exactly 6:00, the lights came up inside the...
RAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Meets Gracie 21 Days Later, Blades Defends Her Belt and the Question Nobody AskedMy green notebook has a dedicated page for November. At 2:17 a.m. on October...
Eight Lenses for Reading Combat Sports: Why the Most Honest Answer Is Sometimes 'Insufficient Information'"The first lunge is never the fastest, but it teaches you how to keep your...
Cam Tu's world karate silver and the weight-class fork at 17In 2026 I posted a line calling a 6-0 defeat suffered by a Vietnamese karate...
Jena Bishop and the 48-47 Moment: When a 42-Year-Old Veteran and a Debut Title Belt Rested on a Single RoundThere are nights when the result does not live in the final punch, but in the...
Jena Bishop and the First Belt: When a 42-Year-Old Nearly Rewrote History With Two PunchesBefore the bell for round one sounded at Charles F. Dodge City Center, I saw...
Jena Bishop Takes Inaugural PFL Flyweight Title: The 48-47 Arithmetic Behind Four Minutes of Back ControlRound five, with Jena Bishop on Liz Carmouche's back for nearly four minutes,...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC unbeaten: when a perfect record cannot buy a roster spotIn my fight-tracking notebook, the page on Farid Basharat carries a short lin...
Twenty-Seven Reigns in Twenty-Eight Years: UFC Heavyweight and the Voids No One Can FillOn the night of March 3, 2026, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, a...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 20: The Repechage Path and Bùi Ngọc Nhi's Karate Kata BronzeOn the kata mat, after losing to a Japanese athlete in the qualifiers, Bùi Ng...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC with a 16-0 record: a perfect win streak that could not buy a roster spotThree scorecards go up. No blood, no knockout, no submission. Farid Basharat...
16-0 and Cut: How the UFC Repriced WinningIn July 2026, I sat in a temporary editorial room in Chiang Mai, watching the...
RAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Faces Gracie After 22 Days, Blades Defends Zero-Points-Conceded Run Against MirTwenty-Two Days On October 23, Arman Tsarukyan stepped onto the RAF 14 mat. O...
Combat Sports Have No Shared Yardstick: When the Fight File Comes Back EmptyAt two in the morning in Incheon, I opened an analysis file for a combat spor...
An Empty Combat-Sports File, and Why I Refused to Name a Single FighterOn Tuesday morning, at my desk in Busan, I opened a file sent from the...
Yin Zhiping, Lü Wende, Shi Lang: where wuxia fiction rewrites the historical recordIn 2026, on the path leading up Mount Hua, a group of Taoist priests blocked...
An Empty Gym in Transfer Season: Combat Sports Writing and the Discipline of Silence5:40 in the morning, the basement of an old building in eastern Tokyo. The...
The Death of a Philippine Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor JudgmentA robbery in Las Vegas, a gunshot, and a name the press called a boxing...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera Stops Meyer at 0:46 of Round 4 — The Data Shows a Skill Gap, Not a 13cm Height GapRound four, the clock stopped at 0:46. Meyer lay face down on the canvas at t...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival in Ho Chi Minh City: Reading the Weight-Class Architecture Before the First BellAt six in the morning on 22 October, the Wai Kru music will play inside the...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Why the Men's Divisions Stop at 63.5 kgOn the morning of October 22, at exactly 6:00, the lights came up inside the...
RAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Meets Gracie 21 Days Later, Blades Defends Her Belt and the Question Nobody AskedMy green notebook has a dedicated page for November. At 2:17 a.m. on October...
Eight Lenses for Reading Combat Sports: Why the Most Honest Answer Is Sometimes 'Insufficient Information'"The first lunge is never the fastest, but it teaches you how to keep your...
Cam Tu's world karate silver and the weight-class fork at 17In 2026 I posted a line calling a 6-0 defeat suffered by a Vietnamese karate...
Jena Bishop and the 48-47 Moment: When a 42-Year-Old Veteran and a Debut Title Belt Rested on a Single RoundThere are nights when the result does not live in the final punch, but in the...
Jena Bishop and the First Belt: When a 42-Year-Old Nearly Rewrote History With Two PunchesBefore the bell for round one sounded at Charles F. Dodge City Center, I saw...
Jena Bishop Takes Inaugural PFL Flyweight Title: The 48-47 Arithmetic Behind Four Minutes of Back ControlRound five, with Jena Bishop on Liz Carmouche's back for nearly four minutes,...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC unbeaten: when a perfect record cannot buy a roster spotIn my fight-tracking notebook, the page on Farid Basharat carries a short lin...
Twenty-Seven Reigns in Twenty-Eight Years: UFC Heavyweight and the Voids No One Can FillOn the night of March 3, 2026, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, a...
Asiad 20 Diary, September 20: The Repechage Path and Bùi Ngọc Nhi's Karate Kata BronzeOn the kata mat, after losing to a Japanese athlete in the qualifiers, Bùi Ng...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC with a 16-0 record: a perfect win streak that could not buy a roster spotThree scorecards go up. No blood, no knockout, no submission. Farid Basharat...
16-0 and Cut: How the UFC Repriced WinningIn July 2026, I sat in a temporary editorial room in Chiang Mai, watching the...
