Martial Arts
Suarez’s 0-for-9 Takedowns and Nine Minutes of Control: The Unsupported ‘Title Picture’ Claim
A National Games That Stops at 63.5 kg: Muay Thai's Opening Bell in Vietnam and Its Empty Weight Rooms
42–41 Is History, 35–45 Is the Wall: Auditing Singapore's First Asian Games Team Épée Bronze
Not 42–41 but 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ledger Nobody Reckoned
Three Inches of Touch, Ten Touches of Gap: The Ledger of Singapore's Épée Bronze
The Arithmetic of One Touch: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Staircase Beyond the Piste
One Box Filled, Eleven Empty: Why Classifying Combat Sports Is the Real Work of AnalysisTwelve boxes on an analysis sheet landed in my hands. Eleven of them said the...
Suarez’s 0-for-9 Takedowns and Nine Minutes of Control: The Unsupported ‘Title Picture’ ClaimLAS VEGAS — When the ring announcer read 30-27, 30-27, 29-28, the first numbe...
Reading the Void: The Verification Gap in Combat-Sports ReportingThe oldest rule of sports journalism is also the most frequently broken: veri...
Empty Data in Fight Sports Analysis: A Complete Framework with Zero ConclusionsMixed martial arts, boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, grappling, sanda or wushu...
The Arithmetic Outside the Ring: Why Combat-Sports Analysis Fails Without DataA report on martial arts and combat sports arrived for deep analysis — but it...
A National Games That Stops at 63.5 kg: Muay Thai's Opening Bell in Vietnam and Its Empty Weight RoomsA hall in Ho Chi Minh City, listed as a Public Service Provision Center. Not ...
4:54 at 38 — In Volkanovski's Knockout, Conversion Was the Story, Not the VolumeIn Abu Dhabi the clock showed 4:54 of the second round. Alexander Volkanovski...
Asiad 2026: Vietnam's Calculated Gamble on the Virtual Mat, and a Younger Sister's Invisible WeightI am writing this from Colombo, several thousand miles from the mat. So let m...
Virtual Taekwondo: Why Vietnam Is Hunting a First-Edition Medal Window at the Asian GamesA morning session of the taekwondo competition at the 2026 Asian Games. An...
42–41 Is History, 35–45 Is the Wall: Auditing Singapore's First Asian Games Team Épée Bronze42–41 Is History, 35–45 Is the Wall: Auditing Singapore's First Asian Games...
35–45: The Korean Wall Behind Singapore's First Asian Games Épée BronzeLast month, in my room in Incheon, I got stuck on a single scoreline: 42–41....
42–41: The Real Price of Singapore's Fencing Bronze"Historic" usually sits above the scoreline. The first number into my noteboo...
The 45-Touch Wall: Singapore's Épée Bronze Is History, Not a Ceiling BreachThe last minute of overtime on the strip at Aichi Sky Expo is still lodged in...
Not 42–41 but 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ledger Nobody Reckoned1. The Number That Does Not Fit the Format A team épée match runs to 45...
Three Inches of Touch, Ten Touches of Gap: The Ledger of Singapore's Épée BronzeThe scoreboard read 42–41. No knockout, no submission, no knockdown — a touch...
The Arithmetic of One Touch: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Staircase Beyond the Piste42–41, overtime. That small number opened the lock on Singapore's first ever...