Martial Arts
Cam Tu's world silver: the 0-6 final was real, but the -59kg category has no senior home
Jena Bishop and the Inaugural Belt: How a 48-47 Round Shaped an Entire Division
Blurred Lines in the Ledger: Thai Muay Thai and the Memory Crisis of a Billion-Dollar Martial Art
16-0 and Still Cut: When Winning Is No Longer the Currency in the UFC
Cam Tu's world silver: the 0-6 final was real, but the -59kg category has no senior homeThe clock on the mat at Bielsko-Biała ticked into the third minute with the...
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Weight Classes, Schedule and the Squad TestHo Chi Minh City, October 20, 2026 — According to the published schedule, Mua...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: When Schedule, Weight Classes and Bodily Autonomy Enter the RingFrom Ho Chi Minh City, on October 20, 2026, Muay Thai enters the ring before...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: The 63.5 kg Ceiling and the Empty Space Above ItOn 20 October 2026, inside a public-service gymnasium in Ho Chi Minh City, Mu...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Six Men's Divisions, Seven Women's Divisions and the Under-45kg ProblemIn May 2026, at an indoor athletics meet in Osaka, I opened three tabs of...
Tran Thi Cam Tu and the World Silver: Behind the 0-6 Final Lies a Bigger CrossroadsIn the third minute of the women's 59kg final, I was sitting in the fourth ro...
Tran Thi Cam Tu's World Silver: The 59kg Fork and the Training-Partner ProblemThe scoreboard on the Bielsko-Biała mat clicked to 0-6. Tran Thi Cam Tu pulle...
Bishop Takes the PFL Women's Flyweight Crown: One Round Between Glory and a DrawIn Nha Trang the fight ended close to 2 a.m. I did not switch the television...
Jena Bishop Rallies to Outpoint Liz Carmouche for Inaugural PFL CrownSome nights the cage is not just a place for scorecards, but a place where...
Jena Bishop and the Inaugural Belt: How a 48-47 Round Shaped an Entire DivisionSomewhere far from the hush of a Guangzhou night, where heartbeats are traine...
Lo Thi Phung and the 54kg Extra Round: The Loss Was a Cardio Budget, Not TechniqueOn 20 September, in the women's 54 kg quarterfinal at the 2026 Asian Games, L...
Blurred Lines in the Ledger: Thai Muay Thai and the Memory Crisis of a Billion-Dollar Martial ArtBlurred Lines in the Ledger: Thai Muay Thai and the Memory Crisis of a...
Vietnam's women's team kata wins Asiad 20 gold: The delegation's first title and the applause in ToyohashiAt the Toyohashi arena, before the five flags of the judging panel went up, t...
16-0 and Still Cut: When Winning Is No Longer the Currency in the UFCOn the night of 12 July, when the referee raised Farid Basharat's hand after...
Farid Basharat leaves the UFC at 16-0: what data actually prices a winning streakOn a Thursday, the news arrived quietly. No press conference, no statement ou...
16-0 and still let go: How the UFC priced Farid Basharat differentlyOn Thursday morning, confirmation that Farid Basharat was leaving the UFC...
Sixteen Fights Unbeaten and a Contract That Never Came: How the UFC Reprices VictoryLast July, after three judges unanimously raised their hands to declare Farid...
100 Grams and a Process Gap: The Jung Su-jin Case Exposes Weaknesses in Judo's Random Weigh-inFifteen minutes. That was the window Jung Su-jin had to handle a situation sh...
The Fall at the Weigh-In: 100 Grams, a Torn Ticket, and the Management Flaw of Korean JudoIn a corner of the arena's locker room, a female judoka sat down on the floor...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC despite 16-0 record: what the finish rate revealsOn Thursday, August 7, 2026, confirmation arrived: Farid Basharat is no longe...
The young fighter's injury and the data gap in Vietnam's martial arts sceneOn the third night of the national martial arts championship, I sat in the...
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Weight Classes, Schedule and the Squad TestHo Chi Minh City, October 20, 2026 — According to the published schedule, Mua...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: When Schedule, Weight Classes and Bodily Autonomy Enter the RingFrom Ho Chi Minh City, on October 20, 2026, Muay Thai enters the ring before...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: The 63.5 kg Ceiling and the Empty Space Above ItOn 20 October 2026, inside a public-service gymnasium in Ho Chi Minh City, Mu...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Six Men's Divisions, Seven Women's Divisions and the Under-45kg ProblemIn May 2026, at an indoor athletics meet in Osaka, I opened three tabs of...
Tran Thi Cam Tu and the World Silver: Behind the 0-6 Final Lies a Bigger CrossroadsIn the third minute of the women's 59kg final, I was sitting in the fourth ro...
Tran Thi Cam Tu's World Silver: The 59kg Fork and the Training-Partner ProblemThe scoreboard on the Bielsko-Biała mat clicked to 0-6. Tran Thi Cam Tu pulle...
Bishop Takes the PFL Women's Flyweight Crown: One Round Between Glory and a DrawIn Nha Trang the fight ended close to 2 a.m. I did not switch the television...
Jena Bishop Rallies to Outpoint Liz Carmouche for Inaugural PFL CrownSome nights the cage is not just a place for scorecards, but a place where...
Jena Bishop and the Inaugural Belt: How a 48-47 Round Shaped an Entire DivisionSomewhere far from the hush of a Guangzhou night, where heartbeats are traine...
Lo Thi Phung and the 54kg Extra Round: The Loss Was a Cardio Budget, Not TechniqueOn 20 September, in the women's 54 kg quarterfinal at the 2026 Asian Games, L...
Blurred Lines in the Ledger: Thai Muay Thai and the Memory Crisis of a Billion-Dollar Martial ArtBlurred Lines in the Ledger: Thai Muay Thai and the Memory Crisis of a...
Vietnam's women's team kata wins Asiad 20 gold: The delegation's first title and the applause in ToyohashiAt the Toyohashi arena, before the five flags of the judging panel went up, t...
16-0 and Still Cut: When Winning Is No Longer the Currency in the UFCOn the night of 12 July, when the referee raised Farid Basharat's hand after...
Farid Basharat leaves the UFC at 16-0: what data actually prices a winning streakOn a Thursday, the news arrived quietly. No press conference, no statement ou...
16-0 and still let go: How the UFC priced Farid Basharat differentlyOn Thursday morning, confirmation that Farid Basharat was leaving the UFC...
Sixteen Fights Unbeaten and a Contract That Never Came: How the UFC Reprices VictoryLast July, after three judges unanimously raised their hands to declare Farid...
100 Grams and a Process Gap: The Jung Su-jin Case Exposes Weaknesses in Judo's Random Weigh-inFifteen minutes. That was the window Jung Su-jin had to handle a situation sh...
The Fall at the Weigh-In: 100 Grams, a Torn Ticket, and the Management Flaw of Korean JudoIn a corner of the arena's locker room, a female judoka sat down on the floor...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC despite 16-0 record: what the finish rate revealsOn Thursday, August 7, 2026, confirmation arrived: Farid Basharat is no longe...
The young fighter's injury and the data gap in Vietnam's martial arts sceneOn the third night of the national martial arts championship, I sat in the...
