Martial Arts
UFC 332: A First-Round Knockout Record and the Gaps Behind the Number
16-0 and a Door Closing: The UFC Doesn't Price Victories, It Prices the Moment Fans Stand Up
44-Year-Old Buakaw Banchamek Beats Chinese Champion Twice: The Muay Thai Legend and the Unresolved Math of Age
Three Ways to Measure a Fighter: Vietnam's Martial Arts Data Gap
Asian Games 20: Teqball Reaches the Podium on Debut, Karate Keeps the Rhythm, and a Lesson in Balance From Two Bronze Medals
Vietnam's first two bronzes at Asiad 20: Teqball and Karate tell different stories
Martial ArtsMuay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: The Men's 63.5 kg Ceiling and Seven Women's Divisions Map the Talent PoolAt six in the morning on October 22, the gymnasium of the Ho Chi Minh City...
Martial ArtsUFC 332: A First-Round Knockout Record and the Gaps Behind the NumberAt UFC 332, the scoreboard lit up like a row of warning lights: nine...
Martial ArtsTran Thi Cam Tu's karate silver: the rhythm after a 0-6 finalBielsko-Biała, Poland. After the final whistle in the women's -59kg kumite...
Martial Arts16-0 and a Door Closing: The UFC Doesn't Price Victories, It Prices the Moment Fans Stand UpWhen Farid Basharat stepped out of the Octagon after his seventh UFC win, he...
Martial Arts16-0 and Cut: Farid Basharat, Finish Rate, and the Pricing War the UFC Never ExplainsOn Thursday, confirmation came through that Farid Basharat was leaving the UF...
Martial ArtsWhen the Training Ground Is Empty: The Silent Pulse of Japanese SportI stood outside the training facility of a small club on the outskirts of Tok...
Martial ArtsAllen submits Duncan at Meta Apex: what 138-80 and a single point deduction revealThe clock on the Meta Apex screen stopped at 22 minutes and 46 seconds. Brend...
Martial ArtsSal Everett earns UFC contract at Contender Series: A real win, a governance questionThe clock stopped at 1:57 of the first round. Sal Everett, a welterweight,...
Martial Arts44-Year-Old Buakaw Banchamek Beats Chinese Champion Twice: The Muay Thai Legend and the Unresolved Math of AgeOn a fight night at Max Muay Thai Stadium in Chonburi, Thailand, a 44-year-ol...
Martial ArtsThe Ming Dynasty Tailor Whose Story Wuxia Fiction Stole Two CenturiesBefore the match believed to be the most classic of his life took place, peop...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Seat at Rajadamnern: When Professional Martial Arts Misreads ItselfOn the night of December 14, 2026, in the seventh row of Rajadamnern Stadium ...
Martial ArtsThe V-League Injury Map: The Annual Season and the Muscle Lines RewrittenThe 67th Minute and an Old Habit In the 67th minute, on a pitch that had fade...
Martial ArtsThree Ways to Measure a Fighter: Vietnam's Martial Arts Data Gap21:40, the second night of an open martial arts event in Binh Duong. On the...
Martial ArtsBarcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher at 39: When a Loss Stops Being About Winning or LosingThe moment Raoni Barcelos went down in the fifth round, the stretcher rolling...
Martial ArtsThe Weight-Cut Collapse in a Sauna at the 2026 Asian Games and the Blind Spot in MMA Weigh-In RulesThe sauna room in the Aichi-Nagoya athletes' village had no cameras. For...
Martial ArtsLo Thi Phung, Five Kilograms and the Decisive Extra Round: Vietnamese MMA Just Touched a New ThresholdThe moment Lo Thi Phung dropped after the extra-round bell in the women's 54k...
