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Martial ArtsIslam Makhachev Unable to Defend Title: UFC Books Interim Welterweight Title FightIn a press room in Incheon, when a Korean colleague asked me about the UFC...
Martial ArtsAn Empty Analysis Table and the Price of Filling in Every CellEight sections. Sixty-two cells. Not a single one of them contained data. The...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Cell in Fight Reporting and the Real Price of Invented NumbersIn December 2026, in Manila, Yang Jian Bing stepped onto the scale for a...
Martial ArtsChimaev Pushes for Strickland Rematch: 48-47 and the Weight-Cut ProblemAn arena can go so quiet that I hear the fight itself breathing. On the UFC 3...
Martial ArtsWhy the UFC let an undefeated 16-0 Farid Basharat walk awayLate evening in Chiang Mai, after the final session at a small gym by the Pin...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat and the 16-0 Streak Let Go: When the UFC Reads Finish Rate, Not the RecordFarid Basharat raised his hand inside the octagon. The referee named him the...
Martial ArtsBasharat cut by UFC despite 16-0: decoding the gap between record and marketabilityConfirmation arrived on a Thursday, and it came more quietly than a 16-fight...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC Undefeated: How Finish Rate Decides a Fighter's WorthIn the 11 UFC wins belonging to brothers Farid and Javid Basharat combined, 1...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves the UFC Despite a 16-0 Record: Finish Rate Is the Real CurrencyEvery season begins on a morning when no one is awake yet. For me, that morni...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts and the Data Vacuum: When Records Have No OriginOn the poster of a grassroots MMA event held at an arena in District 7, Ho Ch...
Martial ArtsWhen the Results Sheet Holds Only a Name: How Data Vanished From a Martial Arts Night in Phu ThoAt 11:14 PM on June 15, 2026, the official results page of the martial arts...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back and the Biggest Data Gap Against RuffyOn September 27, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, before Arman...
Martial ArtsVovinam and the Taekwondo Lesson: Vietnam's Sleeping Giant of Martial ArtsOn a summer evening, I sat in the back row of a small arena in Quy Nhon,...
Martial ArtsSal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with First-Round KnockoutSal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with...
Martial ArtsSal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with Knockout at Contender SeriesSal Everett, 29, a welterweight mixed martial artist, has earned a UFC contra...
Martial ArtsSal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with Contender Series KnockoutSal Everett, personal assistant to UFC President Dana White, has officially...
Martial ArtsUFC 332 Sets Record with 9 First-Round Knockouts: The Real Story Lies in MatchmakingOpening It was three in the morning in Nha Trang. The city was still asleep,...
Martial ArtsUFC 332: The Record 9 First-Round Knockouts Were Engineered at the Matchmaking Desk, Not Forged in the CagePayton Talbott landed the final punch at 2 minutes and 32 seconds of the firs...
Martial ArtsThe Scale and the Urine Sample: The Silent Weight Battle in Southeast Asian Martial ArtsOn the morning of a fight night at a martial arts event in Bangkok, a fighter...
Martial ArtsProfessional Combat Sports and the Eight Axes of Analysis Shaping the Arena IndustryBefore the bell rings, there is a moment almost no one in the arena notices....
Martial ArtsBarcelos Leaves Hospital After UFC Fight Night Health Scare: Round Five, Age 39, and the Missing DataAt noon on September 26, about a dozen people sat in front of a screen in a...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos out of hospital after Round-5 KO: When the medical system is the silent heroThe empty chair never lies — it only exposes what we don't want to hear. This...
Martial ArtsBarcelos Leaves Hospital: UFC, Media Safety, and the Age-39 Problem at BantamweightThe moment in the fifth round, when Raoni Barcelos collapsed to the canvas an...
Martial ArtsBarcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher in Round Five: The Medical Brief and the Gaps Left UnfilledThe clock inside the octagon crossed the fourth minute of the fifth round whe...
Martial ArtsBarcelos doing great after hospitalization: lessons from a 39-year-old bantamweight after a fifth-round TKORaoni Barcelos lay on the stretcher, face motionless, arena lights reflecting...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos, the Fifth Round, and the Age Curve You Cannot ReverseI once stood at the Incheon Asiad, watching a nineteen-year-old long jumper...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Joshua Van Decodes Pantoja, The Truth About The Lightweight Era, And Gable Steveson's 12-Second CollapseThere are fights you must watch three times before you believe your eyes. UFC...
Martial ArtsOvernight Weight Cut at Under-77 kg: When a Fighter's Body Loses to the Scale ItselfThe dry sauna in the Aichi-Nagoya athlete village had no spectators. No...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan vs Mauricio Ruffy – The Sleeping Giant Meets the One-Punch ReckoningIn Arman Tsarukyan's last three fights, his takedown success rate hovered...
Martial ArtsVovinam, the SEA Games and the Medal Trap of Vietnamese Martial ArtsOn the night of the martial arts final at the 2026 SEA Games on home soil, a...
Martial ArtsThree Logics of Vietnamese Martial Arts: Vovinam, Taolu and the Professional CageIn the stands of a national wushu championship, I sat beside a man who had ju...
Martial ArtsThe Map of 57 Global MMA Titles: Power Is Shifting Where No One LooksI counted every existing MMA championship belt in the world on an October...
Martial ArtsThe Ring Never Lies: Reading Combat Sports Through the Storm of RumorsAn afternoon in a small gym tucked inside an alley by the Saigon River. On th...
Martial ArtsCombat Sports Does Not Need More Noise — It Needs DataThat night, on Le Loi Street in Hai Phong, I counted seventeen men screaming...
Martial ArtsThe Discipline of Evidence in Combat Sports: Lessons From an Empty AnalysisOn the evening of 30 June 2026, in a small apartment in Chengdu, I sat down o...
Martial ArtsThe Silent Rhythm on the Mat: When a Martial Arts File Has Nothing Left to ReadThree in the morning in Busan, and I was staring at an empty analysis sheet. ...
Martial ArtsMulti-Dimensional Analysis of Nguyen Van A's Victory at ONE ChampionshipThe fight between Nguyen Van A and his Thai opponent at ONE Championship: Ful...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Martial Arts and the Medal Trap: Why Regional Success Does Not Produce Professional FightersThat night, I sat in the seventh row of a small arena in District 7, Saigon. ...
