Martial Arts
The Zhang Songxi File: A Ningbo Tailor and the Two-Hundred-Year Gap in the Wudang Legend
0-6 And 1,847 Minutes: Reading Tran Thi Cam Tu's Silver Medal
The Empty Data File at 2 A.M. in Busan and a Verification Test for Vietnamese Combat Sports
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC Despite 16-0 Record: When Finish Rate Determines a Fighter's Value
Martial ArtsThe Zhang Songxi File: A Ningbo Tailor and the Two-Hundred-Year Gap in the Wudang LegendNingbo, somewhere in the middle of the 16th century. Before a confrontation...
Martial Arts0-6 And 1,847 Minutes: Reading Tran Thi Cam Tu's Silver MedalI watch the tape of that final four times. Not because any strike was...
Martial ArtsTran Thi Cam Tu and the 0-6 Silver: When WKF Rules Say More Than the ScoreboardTran Thi Cam Tu entered the 59kg women's final with five straight wins, and...
Martial ArtsBishop wins inaugural PFL women's flyweight title: the 48-47 win and the fragile margin of one scorecardJena Bishop reached the top of PFL with the inaugural women's flyweight title...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Data File at 2 A.M. in Busan and a Verification Test for Vietnamese Combat Sports2:14 a.m., Busan. Late-autumn rain here falls sideways rather than down,...
Martial ArtsPakistan’s Olympic Wrestling Before February 2027: A 30 Million Rupee Request, Zero Funding Approved, and a Mat Without a Safety NetOn the desk of the Pakistan Wrestling Federation (PWF), a request for 30...
Martial Arts27 Title Changes in 28 Years: The UFC Heavyweight Division and the Most Erratic Heartbeat in Combat SportsOne in the morning in Bangkok. The gym on the third floor of an old building...
Martial ArtsZhang Songxi: The Ningbo Tailor Dressed in Wudang Robes by Jin YongOn a June afternoon, I sat in a small coffee shop in Binh Duong, revisiting t...
Martial Arts16-0 and Still Cut: How Finish Rate, Not the Win Column, Prices a Fighter in the Modern UFCFarid Basharat raised his right hand as the referee read the unanimous...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat leaves the UFC at 29: the contract that never came and the limits of an unbeaten recordIn Las Vegas on a July night, after three rounds closed and the referee raise...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC Despite 16-0 Record: When Finish Rate Determines a Fighter's ValueOn August 13, 2026, Farid Basharat confirmed on social media that the UFC had...
Martial Arts16-0 and still cut: when winning stops being the currency in the UFCOn Thursday, the news was confirmed. Farid Basharat leaves the UFC with an...
Martial ArtsUndefeated at 16-0 but cut by the UFC: When a win streak is no longer a safety netAt two in the morning in Da Nang, I replayed the tape of Farid Basharat again...
Martial Arts16-0 and an Unsigned Contract: What Does the UFC Think a Win Is Worth?Two in the morning in Incheon, I opened UFC Stats with one hand while the oth...
Martial ArtsJung Su-jin's 100 grams: a communication failure and the limits of Korean judoFifteen minutes before the deadline, Jung Su-jin learned her name was on the...
Martial Arts100 Grams and a Career: How Korean Judo's Random Weigh-In Process Dropped an AthleteAt a major Games whose exact designation is still pending verification, Korea...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts and the Empty Data Cells: When the Analyst Rebuilds the Fight in His Own HeadThere is a moment in this job I cannot forget. That night, I sat before the...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports: When a Medal Doesn't Tell the Whole Story of the SystemAt a youth fighter tryout in Nha Trang late last year, I counted the people i...
Martial ArtsJung Su-jin, 100 Grams and a Process Failure in Korean JudoThe stopwatch stopped at 15. Not fifteen seconds of an ippon, but fifteen...
Martial Arts100 Grams That Broke an Olympic Cycle: The Management Crack in Korean JudoAt the lightest weight class in women's judo, 48 kg, the limit for the...
Martial ArtsThe “martial arts” label is too broad: taolu, sanda and MMA need three separate data tablesThe gym in Incheon is cold in its own particular way every winter. That...
Martial ArtsStage-2 Deep Professional Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty — Lessons on Sports Information Processing WorkflowIn the modern sports industry, where every decision from player transfers to...
Martial Arts0-6 And 1,847 Minutes: Reading Tran Thi Cam Tu's Silver MedalI watch the tape of that final four times. Not because any strike was...
Martial ArtsTran Thi Cam Tu and the 0-6 Silver: When WKF Rules Say More Than the ScoreboardTran Thi Cam Tu entered the 59kg women's final with five straight wins, and...
Martial ArtsBishop wins inaugural PFL women's flyweight title: the 48-47 win and the fragile margin of one scorecardJena Bishop reached the top of PFL with the inaugural women's flyweight title...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Data File at 2 A.M. in Busan and a Verification Test for Vietnamese Combat Sports2:14 a.m., Busan. Late-autumn rain here falls sideways rather than down,...
Martial ArtsPakistan’s Olympic Wrestling Before February 2027: A 30 Million Rupee Request, Zero Funding Approved, and a Mat Without a Safety NetOn the desk of the Pakistan Wrestling Federation (PWF), a request for 30...
Martial Arts27 Title Changes in 28 Years: The UFC Heavyweight Division and the Most Erratic Heartbeat in Combat SportsOne in the morning in Bangkok. The gym on the third floor of an old building...
Martial ArtsZhang Songxi: The Ningbo Tailor Dressed in Wudang Robes by Jin YongOn a June afternoon, I sat in a small coffee shop in Binh Duong, revisiting t...
Martial Arts16-0 and Still Cut: How Finish Rate, Not the Win Column, Prices a Fighter in the Modern UFCFarid Basharat raised his right hand as the referee read the unanimous...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat leaves the UFC at 29: the contract that never came and the limits of an unbeaten recordIn Las Vegas on a July night, after three rounds closed and the referee raise...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC Despite 16-0 Record: When Finish Rate Determines a Fighter's ValueOn August 13, 2026, Farid Basharat confirmed on social media that the UFC had...
Martial Arts16-0 and still cut: when winning stops being the currency in the UFCOn Thursday, the news was confirmed. Farid Basharat leaves the UFC with an...
Martial ArtsUndefeated at 16-0 but cut by the UFC: When a win streak is no longer a safety netAt two in the morning in Da Nang, I replayed the tape of Farid Basharat again...
Martial Arts16-0 and an Unsigned Contract: What Does the UFC Think a Win Is Worth?Two in the morning in Incheon, I opened UFC Stats with one hand while the oth...
Martial ArtsJung Su-jin's 100 grams: a communication failure and the limits of Korean judoFifteen minutes before the deadline, Jung Su-jin learned her name was on the...
Martial Arts100 Grams and a Career: How Korean Judo's Random Weigh-In Process Dropped an AthleteAt a major Games whose exact designation is still pending verification, Korea...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts and the Empty Data Cells: When the Analyst Rebuilds the Fight in His Own HeadThere is a moment in this job I cannot forget. That night, I sat before the...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports: When a Medal Doesn't Tell the Whole Story of the SystemAt a youth fighter tryout in Nha Trang late last year, I counted the people i...
Martial ArtsJung Su-jin, 100 Grams and a Process Failure in Korean JudoThe stopwatch stopped at 15. Not fifteen seconds of an ippon, but fifteen...
Martial Arts100 Grams That Broke an Olympic Cycle: The Management Crack in Korean JudoAt the lightest weight class in women's judo, 48 kg, the limit for the...
Martial ArtsThe “martial arts” label is too broad: taolu, sanda and MMA need three separate data tablesThe gym in Incheon is cold in its own particular way every winter. That...
Martial ArtsStage-2 Deep Professional Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty — Lessons on Sports Information Processing WorkflowIn the modern sports industry, where every decision from player transfers to...