Martial Arts
PFL Loses Its CEO, MVP Takes the Wheel: The July Deal Rewritten Under a New Name2026-09-23On July 30, a joint release announced the merger between the Professional...
Nguyen Thien Phung and the Art of Pivoting: Inside Vietnam's Poomsae Gold at Chuncheon2026-09-18Chuncheon, late afternoon. The arena still smelled of fresh pine resin from t...
MMA Champions Across Continents and the Price on the Scale2026-09-15There is something the global MMA record book never prints: the weight that...
The Empty Dossier and the Limits of Judgment: Why a Sports Referee Must Never Invent Data2026-09-13Early this month, a former colleague at the newsroom sent me a dossier. The...
Muay Thai opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: the 63.5 kg ceiling and the blanks nobody has publishedAt 6 a.m. on 22 October 2026, the first bout of the entire competition phase ...
Chau Ngoc Tuyet Sang: A sister's legacy and the virtual taekwondo gamble at the 2026 Asian GamesOPENING In the electronic sports training hall of Vietnam's taekwondo team,...
Karate Cut From the Olympics, Kendo Never In: Japan's Martial Arts Classification GapOn December 7, 2026, the International Olympic Committee finalised the offici...
UFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan, Mauricio Ruffy and the Variable Nobody Dares to NameUFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan, Mauricio Ruffy and the Variable Nobody Dares to Nam...
Singapore Women's Fencing at the Asian Games: The First Bronze Medal and What the Data Hasn't ToldOPENING It took me three days to believe that the 42-41 score was real. That...
Singapore's Women's Epee Team at the Asian Games: Bronze, a 42-41 Score, and the Gap Nobody Wants to NameThe blade landed on the chest plate, a short buzzer cut through the noise, an...
Singapore's Women's Epee Team and Their First Medal: Rhythm Lives in the Silence Between Two BladesThe hall was so quiet that the referee's footsteps on the strip became a rhyt...
Singapore's First Women's Epee Team Medal and the Final Touch That Never HappenedOn the piste at the Asian Games in late September 2026, the scoreboard flicke...
Vietnam Karate at the Asian Games: When a Three-Woman Kata Routine Becomes a StatementToyohashi, Japan. The scoreboard shows 5-0. Not the scoreline of a fight, but...
Vietnam women's team kata defends Asian Games gold: a victory of synchronization and a gap worth facingThree karate athletes stepped onto the tatami in Toyohashi, bowed, and stood...
Three 5-0 Sweeps and the First Gold: Reading Women's Team Kata Through Data, Not EmotionOn the evening of September 22, I sat in front of a screen in Osaka, a notebo...
Vietnamese Wushu at the Asian Games: Four Bronze Medals, One Final Berth and the Wall Named ChinaOn the evening of September 23, when the organisers published the sanda...
Dinh Van Tam and Ou Jiaming: The Asiad 20 Sanda 56kg Final and What the Data Actually SaysIn 2026, at an arena in Macau, I sat in the seventh row, notebook open, penci...
PFL Loses Its CEO, MVP Takes the Wheel: The July Deal Rewritten Under a New NameOn July 30, a joint release announced the merger between the Professional...
The Sauna Collapse: When the Scale Becomes the Most Dangerous OpponentA Nepali athlete opened the sauna door and found Sanyal slumped on the floor....
