Martial Arts
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera Stops Meyer in Round 4 and the Level Gap Is Not About Height
Muay Thai opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: weight classes, format and the gaps nobody published
Vietnamese Wushu: Four Bronze Medals and the Rule That Awarded Three of Them
Three Disciplines, One Label: How a Classification Error Is Distorting Vietnam's Martial Arts Data
Tran Thi Cam Tu and the World Silver: When 0-6 Is Not a Defeat But a Map
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera Stops Meyer in Round 4 and the Level Gap Is Not About HeightNewark, New Jersey, on the night of BKFC 95. Prudential Center held 8,392...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: What the Weight-Class Table Says About the Domestic Fighter PoolAt six in the morning on October 22, 2026, the gymnasium of the Ho Chi Minh...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Dissecting the 63.5 kg Ceiling and an Unfinished RingThere is one detail in the competition schedule of Vietnam's 2026 National...
Muay Thai opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: weight classes, format and the gaps nobody publishedThe competition schedule says 20 October 2026. The opening ceremony says 6 a....
Nguyen Thi Tam Beats a Reigning World Champion 5-0 to Reach the Asiad 20 Boxing FinalThe final bell of the third round sounded at Nishio Arena, and what lingered...
Vietnamese Wushu: Four Bronze Medals and the Rule That Awarded Three of ThemOn 23 September, the wushu results sheet at the 20th Asian Games recorded fou...
Bishop Edges Carmouche 48-47: An Inaugural PFL Belt Decided by One RoundThree scorecards read 48-47. Jena Bishop left the cage with the inaugural PFL...
Three Disciplines, One Label: How a Classification Error Is Distorting Vietnam's Martial Arts DataThe results sheet was printed on A3 paper, three lines sitting next to each...
Nguyen Ngoc Tram and the Perfect Regeneration of Vietnam's Women's Team Kata at ASIAD 2026Nguyen Ngoc Tram stands in the middle row, hands held tight at her sides, eye...
Tran Thi Cam Tu and the World Silver: When 0-6 Is Not a Defeat But a MapA 17-year-old fighter tucks her body, blocks the kick, hears the referee call...
The 0-6 Is Not Cam Tu's Defeat — It Is a Starting Line Nobody ReadIn the women's 59kg final at the World Youth Karate Championship, Tran Thi Ca...
Tran Thi Cam Tu: the 0-6 silver in Bielsko-Biala and an unplanned weight-class forkThe arena in Bielsko-Biala had no Vietnamese spectators. I rewatched the fina...
Tran Thi Cam Tu: rereading the 0-6 final, a real silver medal and the weight-class fork aheadBefore the referee called Hajime, the seventeen-year-old stood at the startin...
Tran Thi Cam Tu: A World Silver at 17 and the Weight-Class Fork Nobody Is ScoringThe referee's hand goes up, three minutes close out, and the scoreboard on th...
Bishop Rallies Past Carmouche for PFL Crown: 48-47 and the Gap Between History and a DrawIn the first round, Liz Carmouche knocked Jena Bishop down twice. A 42-year-o...
Vietnamese martial arts before SEA Games 33: medals are planned, injuries are not5:40 a.m., National Sports Training Centre, Nhon. The corridor lights are sti...
Inam Butt: Two-Month Sanction Expected, Asian Beach Games Silver Still ForfeitedIn April 2026, at the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped onto the podium to...
Farid Basharat, 16-0 and Still Cut by the UFC: When a Winning Streak Cannot Buy a Roster SpotThe Silence After the Bell In July 2026, in Las Vegas, Farid Basharat won his...
100 Grams and Two Wrong Notifications: When Korean Judo Made an Athlete Carry the System's FaultHair cut. Self-induced vomiting. Fifteen minutes. Jung Su-jin had exactly a...
100 Grams and the Limit Line: When the Weigh-In System Defeated a Korean Judo AthleteOn October 13, the head coach of the South Korean women's judo team signed hi...
Vietnamese Martial Arts and the 'Data-Free Analysis' TrapI still remember a night in Hai Phong, sitting among friends watching a repla...
El Búho and the Fall That Cannot Be Undone: A 75-Year-Old Referee, an Unlicensed Arena, and a Death Postponed by MoneyIn the dim yellow light of the "11 de Julio" sports and culture arena, amid t...
A 75-year-old referee's death in Hidalgo: a disputed move name, a compensation deal, and a suspended licenseA night in Mineral de la Reforma In the early days of October, at the “11 de...
A 75-Year-Old Referee and the Head-Drop in Hidalgo: Who Is Liable for the Uninsured?On October 7, police in the state of Hidalgo released the arrest photograph o...
The Death of a 75-Year-Old Referee in Hidalgo: When Independent Wrestling Pays With a LifeThey called it a "martinete." In the slang of Mexican wrestling, it is a bann...