Martial Arts
The Zero-Data Report: Where a Sports Analysis Pipeline Stopped, and What It Teaches
42–41: The Overtime Touch in Épée, Singapore's First Team Bronze — and the Wrong Ledger Fencing Keeps Getting Filed Under
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze Was Won in the Quarter-Final, Not the Semi
42–41: One Overtime Touch, One First Bronze, and an Exact Ledger of Distance
Analysis of Nothing: The Gap Exposed in the Sports-News Verification PipelineThe second-stage deep professional analysis has come back. A result exists. B...
The Zero-Data Report: Where a Sports Analysis Pipeline Stopped, and What It TeachesIntroduction: A report that could not name a single athlete Sports journalism...
The Scorecard That Never Gets a NameA form came back to my desk last week. The headline field was blank. The sour...
Labor in the Magnate's Shadow: A Filipino Promoter's Death in Las Vegas and Boxing's Unpoliced BorderThe camera in the gym bag once held a season that never made a scoreboard. In...
The Zero Payload: Why Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Archive Lives on Headlines and Voice NotesIn December 2026 a voice note arrived from Kathmandu, forty-one seconds long....
The Ledger Inside the Glove: Martial Arts Club Economics in the Age of On-Chain CertificationA ledger always sat outside the mat. From 2026 onward I watched kung fu and...
Hand-Counted Punches, Empty Arenas, Twelve Thousand Screens: The Unfinished Professional Pathway of Bangladesh's Combat SportsI have counted every punch by hand, and the numbers still breathe. January...
Cream-Foundation Generals: Powdered Faces, Drawn Swords — the Contested Beauty Politics of Ancient ChinaIt was snowing. And through that snow walked a general. Over his shoulders, a...
Combat-Sport Analysis Needs an Immutable Ledger of EvidenceThe analysis report that reached my desk last month arrived at a decision — a...
UFC 335: Pereira vs. Pavlovich — A Market of Names, a Ledger of Bodies, and an Incomplete TimelineA line went into my notebook on Saturday, and it was not about a result. It w...
No Records, No Weigh-Ins, No Budgets: the Data Void Is Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Real OpponentLast month, at three in the morning, I sat down in a Nagoya apartment to brea...
Extra Round, Two Judges, One Lost Bronze: Lò Thị Phung at Asiad 20On the evening of September 20, six of us sat around a laptop in a second-flo...
42–41: The Overtime Touch in Épée, Singapore's First Team Bronze — and the Wrong Ledger Fencing Keeps Getting Filed UnderTwo-thirds of the gallery at the fencing hall in Aichi Sky Expo sat empty. In...
The Weight of One Touch: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Story of a MisclassificationThe mask came off a beat late, the hand hanging for a second. When the...
The Sound of the Scoring Box: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze and Korea's Ten-Touch WallThe scoring box lit up 42–41, and the hall made exactly as much noise as it...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Columns Singapore's Fencing Bronze Asks You to Read TogetherIt was nearly two in the morning on the strip at the Aichi Sky Expo. From...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze Was Won in the Quarter-Final, Not the SemiThe clock stopped at 42–41 on piste three at Aichi Sky Expo. From Sakai in...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Hole in Our Medal ArithmeticOn the electronic scoreboard, 42–41 — and beside it, the silence of overtime....
The Metronome of the Blade: Singapore’s First Épée Team Medal, and the Arithmetic from 42–41 to 35–45The last hour on the piste. A green light on the electronic scoring box, a...
42–41: One Overtime Touch, One First Bronze, and an Exact Ledger of DistanceFour in the morning in Dhaka. On the laptop screen, a hall in Aichi-Nagoya:...
42–41: The Scoreline That Puts the 45-Touch Rule on TrialI rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. Women's team...
The Zero-Data Report: Where a Sports Analysis Pipeline Stopped, and What It TeachesIntroduction: A report that could not name a single athlete Sports journalism...
The Scorecard That Never Gets a NameA form came back to my desk last week. The headline field was blank. The sour...
Labor in the Magnate's Shadow: A Filipino Promoter's Death in Las Vegas and Boxing's Unpoliced BorderThe camera in the gym bag once held a season that never made a scoreboard. In...
The Zero Payload: Why Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Archive Lives on Headlines and Voice NotesIn December 2026 a voice note arrived from Kathmandu, forty-one seconds long....
The Ledger Inside the Glove: Martial Arts Club Economics in the Age of On-Chain CertificationA ledger always sat outside the mat. From 2026 onward I watched kung fu and...
Hand-Counted Punches, Empty Arenas, Twelve Thousand Screens: The Unfinished Professional Pathway of Bangladesh's Combat SportsI have counted every punch by hand, and the numbers still breathe. January...
Cream-Foundation Generals: Powdered Faces, Drawn Swords — the Contested Beauty Politics of Ancient ChinaIt was snowing. And through that snow walked a general. Over his shoulders, a...
Combat-Sport Analysis Needs an Immutable Ledger of EvidenceThe analysis report that reached my desk last month arrived at a decision — a...
UFC 335: Pereira vs. Pavlovich — A Market of Names, a Ledger of Bodies, and an Incomplete TimelineA line went into my notebook on Saturday, and it was not about a result. It w...
No Records, No Weigh-Ins, No Budgets: the Data Void Is Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Real OpponentLast month, at three in the morning, I sat down in a Nagoya apartment to brea...
Extra Round, Two Judges, One Lost Bronze: Lò Thị Phung at Asiad 20On the evening of September 20, six of us sat around a laptop in a second-flo...
42–41: The Overtime Touch in Épée, Singapore's First Team Bronze — and the Wrong Ledger Fencing Keeps Getting Filed UnderTwo-thirds of the gallery at the fencing hall in Aichi Sky Expo sat empty. In...
The Weight of One Touch: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Story of a MisclassificationThe mask came off a beat late, the hand hanging for a second. When the...
The Sound of the Scoring Box: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze and Korea's Ten-Touch WallThe scoring box lit up 42–41, and the hall made exactly as much noise as it...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Columns Singapore's Fencing Bronze Asks You to Read TogetherIt was nearly two in the morning on the strip at the Aichi Sky Expo. From...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze Was Won in the Quarter-Final, Not the SemiThe clock stopped at 42–41 on piste three at Aichi Sky Expo. From Sakai in...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Hole in Our Medal ArithmeticOn the electronic scoreboard, 42–41 — and beside it, the silence of overtime....
The Metronome of the Blade: Singapore’s First Épée Team Medal, and the Arithmetic from 42–41 to 35–45The last hour on the piste. A green light on the electronic scoring box, a...
42–41: One Overtime Touch, One First Bronze, and an Exact Ledger of DistanceFour in the morning in Dhaka. On the laptop screen, a hall in Aichi-Nagoya:...
42–41: The Scoreline That Puts the 45-Touch Rule on TrialI rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. Women's team...