Martial Arts
Imane Khelif’s Return to Professional Boxing: Form and Eligibility in Focus for Six-Round Bout2026-11-07The six-round bout scheduled for December 15 at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualit...
28 Fights, 39 Years, One Fifth Round — Even Out of Hospital, the Biggest Question About Raoni Barcelos Remains Unanswered2026-10-28On a Rajshahi rooftop in 2026, ninety seconds became a way of listening: I...
Three Wrong Anthems at the Asian Para Games: The Failure Sat in the Checklist, Not the Audio File2026-10-23A champion stood on the medal podium waiting for her own country's music....
No Source Chain, No History: The Blank Ledger of Bangladeshi Combat Sports Journalism2026-10-12I didn't see it live. I watched from a small Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m. — a...
Imane Khelif’s Return to Professional Boxing: Form and Eligibility in Focus for Six-Round BoutThe six-round bout scheduled for December 15 at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualit...
The Gap Outside the Ring: Fishman, Pineda's Death and Mexico's Broken CommissionsSix October, the 11 de Julio Sports and Culture Center in Hidalgo. Referee...
That Left Hook of Volkanovski: What a Fist at 38 Says Beyond a Right CrossWhen Volkanovski's left hook landed that night, I opened my red notebook and...
UFC 331: Van's Crown and Steveson's 12 Seconds—Two Truths That Question the Lightweight ‘Golden Era’Twelve seconds. In a small martial-arts gym in Nagoya, one of the three coach...
Five Rounds in Sydney and a Date Without a Year: Who Audits Salkilld's Hype?Six. Six UFC wins. Five Performance of the Night bonuses. Four consecutive...
The Real Scorecard Behind Sydney's Main Event: What Salkilld's 6-0 Ledger Doesn't SayLast week, a little past midnight in Mymensingh, I opened the UFC Australia a...
28 Fights, 39 Years, One Fifth Round — Even Out of Hospital, the Biggest Question About Raoni Barcelos Remains UnansweredOn a Rajshahi rooftop in 2026, ninety seconds became a way of listening: I...
Three Wrong Anthems at the Asian Para Games: The Failure Sat in the Checklist, Not the Audio FileA champion stood on the medal podium waiting for her own country's music....
The Empty Ledger, the Full Ring: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Keep Their Own RecordOn 2 December 2026, at four in the morning, an alarm went off in a bedroom in...
No Source Chain, No History: The Blank Ledger of Bangladeshi Combat Sports JournalismI didn't see it live. I watched from a small Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m. — a...
The Ledger That Wouldn't Reconcile: Pereira–Pavlovich, UFC 335 and an Unfinished Record SheetThere is a file on my laptop. I named it HEAVYWEIGHT_LEDGER_2025. The co-main...
Fourteen Chairs, One Silence — The Open Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat SportsNational Karate Championship, 2026. NSC Gymnasium, Paltan. The federation...
Wrestling's Rented Market: RAF's Real Test on the Abu Dhabi StageOne dusk in 2026, only forty people took chairs for a weigh-in in a Dhaka hot...
The Cream-Foundation General: On-Screen Glamour Versus History's ScorecardI stopped the frame. Right in the middle of a battlefield stands a commander:...
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: The Empty Ledger of Martial Arts AnalysisIn 2026, in a Dhaka hotel ballroom, forty chairs were set out for a weigh-in....
Three Rounds in Chonburi and One Unsettled Date: What 44-Year-Old Buakaw Banchamek Won, and What the Ledger Still Cannot ShowMax Muay Thai Stadium, Chonburi. Folded plastic chairs around the ring, the...
Empty Ledger, Immutable Chain: Combat Sports' Accounting Crisis and Blockchain's AnswerThree numbers sat on the scorecards that night — 29–28, 29–28, 28–29. Three...
Asiad 20 Diary: The Martial-Arts Arithmetic Buried in Vietnam's TimetableI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames, and never looked back. What...
Twenty-Six Seconds of Debt, Seventy-Two Percent of an Answer: A Flyweight Crown and the Gap in My NotebookTwenty-six seconds. Nobody remembers a title fight that short, because in tha...
The Gap Outside the Ring: Fishman, Pineda's Death and Mexico's Broken CommissionsSix October, the 11 de Julio Sports and Culture Center in Hidalgo. Referee...
That Left Hook of Volkanovski: What a Fist at 38 Says Beyond a Right CrossWhen Volkanovski's left hook landed that night, I opened my red notebook and...
UFC 331: Van's Crown and Steveson's 12 Seconds—Two Truths That Question the Lightweight ‘Golden Era’Twelve seconds. In a small martial-arts gym in Nagoya, one of the three coach...
Five Rounds in Sydney and a Date Without a Year: Who Audits Salkilld's Hype?Six. Six UFC wins. Five Performance of the Night bonuses. Four consecutive...
The Real Scorecard Behind Sydney's Main Event: What Salkilld's 6-0 Ledger Doesn't SayLast week, a little past midnight in Mymensingh, I opened the UFC Australia a...
28 Fights, 39 Years, One Fifth Round — Even Out of Hospital, the Biggest Question About Raoni Barcelos Remains UnansweredOn a Rajshahi rooftop in 2026, ninety seconds became a way of listening: I...
Three Wrong Anthems at the Asian Para Games: The Failure Sat in the Checklist, Not the Audio FileA champion stood on the medal podium waiting for her own country's music....
The Empty Ledger, the Full Ring: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Keep Their Own RecordOn 2 December 2026, at four in the morning, an alarm went off in a bedroom in...
No Source Chain, No History: The Blank Ledger of Bangladeshi Combat Sports JournalismI didn't see it live. I watched from a small Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m. — a...
The Ledger That Wouldn't Reconcile: Pereira–Pavlovich, UFC 335 and an Unfinished Record SheetThere is a file on my laptop. I named it HEAVYWEIGHT_LEDGER_2025. The co-main...
Fourteen Chairs, One Silence — The Open Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat SportsNational Karate Championship, 2026. NSC Gymnasium, Paltan. The federation...
Wrestling's Rented Market: RAF's Real Test on the Abu Dhabi StageOne dusk in 2026, only forty people took chairs for a weigh-in in a Dhaka hot...
The Cream-Foundation General: On-Screen Glamour Versus History's ScorecardI stopped the frame. Right in the middle of a battlefield stands a commander:...
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: The Empty Ledger of Martial Arts AnalysisIn 2026, in a Dhaka hotel ballroom, forty chairs were set out for a weigh-in....
Three Rounds in Chonburi and One Unsettled Date: What 44-Year-Old Buakaw Banchamek Won, and What the Ledger Still Cannot ShowMax Muay Thai Stadium, Chonburi. Folded plastic chairs around the ring, the...
Empty Ledger, Immutable Chain: Combat Sports' Accounting Crisis and Blockchain's AnswerThree numbers sat on the scorecards that night — 29–28, 29–28, 28–29. Three...
Asiad 20 Diary: The Martial-Arts Arithmetic Buried in Vietnam's TimetableI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames, and never looked back. What...
Twenty-Six Seconds of Debt, Seventy-Two Percent of an Answer: A Flyweight Crown and the Gap in My NotebookTwenty-six seconds. Nobody remembers a title fight that short, because in tha...