Martial Arts
From Japanese Judo Mat to Fraud Allegations: When a Grand Slam Medal Cannot Sustain a Lifetime
The $382,928 Judgment Buried Under a 'Mogul' Headline: A Las Vegas Death and the Bottom Tier of Philippine Boxing
Muay Thai opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: men's divisions stop at 63.5 kg, women's reach below 45 kg
Vietnamese Combat Sports Lack Data More Than They Lack Stars
Three Anthem Errors in One Day at the 2026 Asian Para Games: Where Nagoya's Control Layer FailedThe track played to the end. Nobody cut it. The men's 58 kg kyorugi para...
Three Measurement Systems, One Label: The Blind Spot in Reading Vietnamese Martial ArtsOn a weigh-in morning, the digital scale sits on a damp concrete floor, a...
An Empty Fight File: Vietnamese Combat Sports Needs a Data Validation GateLast week a domestic combat-sports analysis dossier landed in my inbox with a...
Tomofumi Takajo Arrested in Alleged Money-Mule Case: The Post-Career Gap in Japanese JudoOn September 28, at an ATM in Higashi Ward, Kumamoto City, a 34-year-old man...
Chimaev Demands a Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Scorecards and a Heavier Problem Than DefeatThree judges walked into the cage with three scorecards, and when they were...
From Japanese Judo Mat to Fraud Allegations: When a Grand Slam Medal Cannot Sustain a LifetimeI still remember that summer evening in 2026, sitting in the Busan newsroom a...
When the Locker Room Goes Silent: Lessons From an Empty Analysis PipelineThere is a moment in the trade of following a team that teaches you how to re...
From Grand Slam to Detention: The Void Behind Takajo's MedalOn the morning of 28 September, at an ATM in Higashi Ward, Kumamoto, a...
When Data Stays Silent: Lessons from an Empty Analysis in Combat SportsThere is a moment in sports journalism when the right move is silence: when t...
Empty Seats, Game Controllers and the Straight Right: Why Martial Arts Analysis in 2026 Has No Room Left for the Obvious TruthIn December 2026, I sat in a small studio in Shenzhen, eyes fixed on two...
A Philippine promoter died in Las Vegas: the $382,928 labor judgment buried under the “mogul” headline“Don't move.” That is what his friends shouted as the armed robber turned bac...
The Death of a Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried $383,000 JudgmentWhen news of Rodis's death spread, Philippine and American media simultaneous...
Boxing 'Mogul' Shot Dead in Las Vegas: The $382,928 Judgment and the Crack in a Paper EmpireHe lunged. As three strangers burst into a modest commercial building on a La...
The $382,928 Judgment Buried Under a 'Mogul' Headline: A Las Vegas Death and the Bottom Tier of Philippine BoxingThree in the morning, a strip of commercial buildings on the edge of Las Vega...