Martial Arts
Martial ArtsGold on an Empty Ledger: Who Keeps the Combat-Sports Books?2026-10-07Hook On August 21, 2026, I stood in the mixed zone at Bukit Jalil as an unpai...
Martial ArtsForty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: In Bangladesh's Ring, the Audience Moved and the Institutions Did Not2026-09-30In a Dhaka hotel ballroom, forty people sat on chairs in front of the weigh-i...
Martial ArtsBarcelos Says He's ‘Doing Great.' The Commission Hasn't Said a Word2026-09-29At 10:40 p.m. in Las Vegas the referee waved it off. At 11:40 a.m. in Kuala...
Martial ArtsHistoric Bronze: Singapore's Women's Epee Team Wins First Asian Games Medal2026-09-26In my long career in sports journalism, I have often seen that when a team...
Martial ArtsGold on an Empty Ledger: Who Keeps the Combat-Sports Books?Hook On August 21, 2026, I stood in the mixed zone at Bukit Jalil as an unpai...
Martial ArtsBuakaw, 44, Beats Meng Gaofeng Again: The Ledger Nobody Keeps Outside the RingI write three numbers in my notebook before the first bell. 44. 29. 2....
Martial ArtsEmpty Dossier, Zero Columns: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Be AnalyzedDecember 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Paltan. On the last day of the National...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports HistoryLast week a folder landed on my desk. I opened it and found emptiness. An...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, Five-Nil: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Empty Column in the LedgerHook: The Seat Where the Scoreboard Light Never Falls I was sitting on a...
Martial ArtsFrom an Empty File to an Immutable Ledger: The Verification Crisis in Combat Sports DataLate in February a deconstruction file came back to my desk almost empty. Eig...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Cells Are the Real Opponent: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Data VacuumThe Empty Cells Are the Real Opponent: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Data Vacuum...
Martial ArtsPoomsae on a Blockchain Ledger: Darren Yap's 9.0400, the 0.05 Margin and the Scoreboard Audit Demanding ReceiptsAt the Nagoya Asian Games men's individual poomsae event, Darren Yap scored...
Martial ArtsEmpty File, Invisible Scorecard: The Evidence Crisis in Martial Arts Analysis and the Case for Immutable RecordsI opened the file at my desk in Nagoya. There was nothing inside. No timestam...
Martial ArtsForty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: In Bangladesh's Ring, the Audience Moved and the Institutions Did NotIn a Dhaka hotel ballroom, forty people sat on chairs in front of the weigh-i...
Martial ArtsFrom Purse to Paper Trail: The Quiet Ledger Revolution in Combat SportsI kept the first Deal Sheet in my head, written in a combat hall in Kuala...
Martial ArtsNo Ledger, No Price: Why Combat Sports Cannot Audit Its Own MedalsAugust 2026, Kuala Lumpur. Standing in the mixed zone at the Bukit Jalil Indo...
Martial ArtsBarcelos Says He's ‘Doing Great.' The Commission Hasn't Said a WordAt 10:40 p.m. in Las Vegas the referee waved it off. At 11:40 a.m. in Kuala...
Martial Arts42–41: The Touch That Opened Singapore's Fencing Door — and the Ten Touches Left BehindHook I count things. In 2026 I spent forty-six days inside the NSC gymnasium ...
Martial ArtsCan 42–41 Survive a 45-Touch Ledger? Singapore's First Épée Team Medal and One Number Still Awaiting VerificationThe Aichi Sky Expo is half an hour from my flat in Nagoya. When Singapore bea...
Martial Arts42–41: One Overtime Touch, Three Medals — The Deal Sheet Behind Singapore's Épée BronzeIn 2026 I kept the first Deal Sheet in my head, written in a combat hall in...
Martial ArtsHistoric Bronze: Singapore's Women's Epee Team Wins First Asian Games MedalIn my long career in sports journalism, I have often seen that when a team...
Martial ArtsBronze in the Wrong Inbox: Singapore's First Épée Team Medal and the Ledger Nobody KeptThe result reached my desk near dawn in a short dispatch — no purse figures, ...
Martial Arts42–41 in a 45-Touch Match: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and a Ledger That Does Not Add UpA team épée match ends at 45 touches. That is an FIE rule, not an opinion. Ye...
Martial Arts42–41 and 35–45: The Two Things Singapore's Épée Bronze Says at OnceAt 2:40 a.m. the laptop is streaming mewatch, the camera picking up near-empt...
Martial Arts42–41 in a Race to 45: Singapore's Épée Bronze and a Ledger That Does Not Balance42–41 in a Race to 45: Singapore's Épée Bronze and a Ledger That Does Not...
Martial Arts42–41 and 35–45: The Singapore Fencing Bronze and the Ledger Nobody Printed42–41 and 35–45: The Singapore Fencing Bronze and the Ledger Nobody Printed T...
Martial ArtsTeam Épée Bronze, Korea's 35–45, and the Ten-Touch Gap: How Far Singapore's Fencing Actually MovedForty-three years I have counted touches, and at the Aichi Sky Expo piste the...
Martial ArtsA Fencing Bronze and Karate's Wound: A Game of Arithmetic Seen from NagoyaI didn't watch it live. Aichi Sky Expo is thirty minutes from my Nagoya...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's Third Fencing Medal on the Ledger, and the Ten-Touch Wall Still Standing42–41. I keep the first Deal Sheet in my head, written in a combat hall in...
Martial Arts42–41: One Touch of History, and Korea's Ten-Touch Gap42–41. That number should not exist on a fencing scoreboard. A team épée rela...
Martial ArtsBefore the Blade Comes Down, You Count: Singapore's Épée Bronze, the Overtime Scoreboard, and Three Zeroes in the Ledger...