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Martial ArtsReading a Fight: When the Record Book Stops Being EvidenceAt five in the morning, the electronic scale in a gym on the outskirts of...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski Finishes Evloev Inside Two Rounds at 38, Yan Needs All 25 MinutesBangkok, 4:12 a.m. I watched UFC 333 on two screens: one live feed, one...
Martial ArtsVolkanovski Defends Featherweight Title, Evloev Falls in Round 2Alexander Volkanovski continued to make history by defeating Movsar Evloev in...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski and Yan Win, but Age Is the Real OpponentI rewatched the Yan–Dvalishvili tape at three in the morning Incheon time wit...
International FootballThree Knockouts in Two Days: Dubois, Fundora, White and What the Record Left BlankThe clock on the Las Vegas canvas ticked into the final second of round twelv...
Martial ArtsRAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Meets Gracie, and a Rulebook Nobody Will PublishBefore the whistle sounds on a wrestling mat, something smaller arrives first...
Martial ArtsJena Bishop and the inaugural belt: 48-47, and the one round that nearly erased a championRound five, minute four, and Jena Bishop is still on Liz Carmouche's back. No...
Martial ArtsJena Bishop and the PFL Belt: How a First-Round Knockdown Reshaped a Division's FateAll three judges scored this fight 48-47. That is the only number I need to...
Martial Arts28 Years, 27 Reigns: The Spin of UFC's Heaviest BeltOn February 7, 2026, in Dothan, Alabama, Mark Coleman choked out Dan Severn a...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: When a Win Streak Is No Longer Currency in MMAInside a Las Vegas locker room, after a unanimous-decision win over John Garz...
Martial Arts16-0 and No New Contract: How Finish Rate Determined Farid Basharat's UFC ValueOn July 17, 2026, Farid Basharat stepped into the Octagon to face John Garza....
Martial Arts16-0 and No Contract: How the UFC Priced an Undefeated Fighter by His Finish RateThe referee's arm went up, the horn closed out three rounds, and Farid Bashar...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: How Finish Rate Prices a Fighter's Contract ValueOn the night of July 12, at a UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, Farid Basharat...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: When an Undefeated Record Gets Priced by Finish CountThe announcement was fewer than two hundred characters long. Farid Basharat...
Martial ArtsA Deep Analysis of Vietnamese Martial Arts: From Empty Analytical Frameworks to Real ValueIn the world of sports and martial arts data analysis, there are cases where...
Martial ArtsDeep Sports Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on the Analytical PipelineIn the modern sports industry, data analysis has become an indispensable part...
Martial ArtsStage-2 Deep Professional Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on Sports Information Processing PipelinesIn modern sports, especially martial arts and combat sports, deep analysis...
Martial ArtsBrendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win Built on Control Time and a Decisive Point DeductionThe defining moment of the night was not a knockout, but a point deduction....
Martial Arts27 Title Changes in 28 Years: Why the UFC Heavyweight Belt Is the Most Fragile in Combat SportsThat night, the livestream room in Shenzhen was barely twenty square meters,...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts Through the Data Lens: The Fragile Line Between Taolu, Sanda and the Professional RingAt an editorial meeting in Tokyo late last year, I placed on the table an...
Martial ArtsRAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Meets Gracie, Blades Defends Her Belt, and the Unanswered Question of the RulesetKennedy Blades has yet to give up a single point to any opponent. Not one...
Martial ArtsArman Tsarukyan to Face Gracie at RAF Abu Dhabi; Kennedy Blades Defends Title Against Bella MirOn November 14, at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, a fighter sitting inside the...
Martial ArtsSal Everett: Dana White's personal assistant scores KO of Ozzy Martin to earn UFC contractSal Everett, the personal assistant to UFC President Dana White, has official...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports Refereeing and the Technology Gap: When the Ring Moves Faster Than the RulesIn the third round of the 67kg final at a national kickboxing event held in N...
Martial ArtsThree Worlds of Combat Sports and the Trap of a Single YardstickA night in October in Busan. The studio was only about twenty square meters,...
Martial ArtsUFC 335: Alex Pereira's 39-Year-Old Gamble and the Empty Slot on the PosterFor seven days after the UFC announced the co-main event between Alex Pereira...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Discharged After Health Scare: Re-Reading the Injury Map of a 39-Year-Old FighterOn the night of September 26, in Las Vegas, the fifth round of a UFC Fight...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses in Sauna at Asian Games 2026: The Weight-Cut System Gambling with Fighters' LivesThe sauna at the Aichi-Nagoya athletes' village had no cameras, no doctor on...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses in a Sauna: Mapping an Overnight Weight Cut at the 2026 Asian GamesThe sauna has no camera. That is why I always start reading an injury case fr...
Martial ArtsAn overnight weight cut at the 2026 Asian Games: when the body becomes the final opponentOn the night of September 20, 2026, in the athletes' village at Aichi-Nagoya,...
Martial ArtsSanyal Collapsed in the Sauna: The Real Fight Was Over Before the Bell RangHe sat in the sauna for about thirty minutes before everything around him beg...
Martial ArtsLo Thi Phung at the Asian Games: A 2-1 Loss to the Top Seed and the Heartbeat Problem at 54kgThe referee raised Lee Bomi's hand before the bell that ended the extra round...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: 12 Seconds of Horror and the Lesson of the 'Olympic Champion' TrapLast Sunday night, I sat alone in the editorial office in Haiphong, rewinding...
Martial ArtsAsiad 20, September 20: Bui Ngoc Nhi's Karate Kata Bronze and the Combat Sports the Report Left OutOn September 20, in the women's individual kata event in karate at Asiad 20,...
Martial ArtsLo Thi Phung Loses to Lee Bomi in the Asian Games Quarterfinal: The Extra Round, the 54kg Weight Class and Vietnamese MMA's Conditioning GapAt the 40th second of the extra round, Lo Thi Phung still held the exact stan...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Joshua Van's Rhythm and the Sound of a Legend That Never WasSome nights leave the arena so quiet you can hear the breathing of a stranger...
Martial ArtsThe Global MMA Championship Map: Six Promotions, More Than Fifty Belts, and the Gaps Behind the GoldAt 2:47 in the morning, in a small apartment on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, ...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski Finishes Evloev Inside Two Rounds at 38, Yan Needs All 25 MinutesBangkok, 4:12 a.m. I watched UFC 333 on two screens: one live feed, one...
Martial ArtsVolkanovski Defends Featherweight Title, Evloev Falls in Round 2Alexander Volkanovski continued to make history by defeating Movsar Evloev in...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski and Yan Win, but Age Is the Real OpponentI rewatched the Yan–Dvalishvili tape at three in the morning Incheon time wit...
International FootballThree Knockouts in Two Days: Dubois, Fundora, White and What the Record Left BlankThe clock on the Las Vegas canvas ticked into the final second of round twelv...
Martial ArtsRAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Meets Gracie, and a Rulebook Nobody Will PublishBefore the whistle sounds on a wrestling mat, something smaller arrives first...
Martial ArtsJena Bishop and the inaugural belt: 48-47, and the one round that nearly erased a championRound five, minute four, and Jena Bishop is still on Liz Carmouche's back. No...
Martial ArtsJena Bishop and the PFL Belt: How a First-Round Knockdown Reshaped a Division's FateAll three judges scored this fight 48-47. That is the only number I need to...
Martial Arts28 Years, 27 Reigns: The Spin of UFC's Heaviest BeltOn February 7, 2026, in Dothan, Alabama, Mark Coleman choked out Dan Severn a...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: When a Win Streak Is No Longer Currency in MMAInside a Las Vegas locker room, after a unanimous-decision win over John Garz...
Martial Arts16-0 and No New Contract: How Finish Rate Determined Farid Basharat's UFC ValueOn July 17, 2026, Farid Basharat stepped into the Octagon to face John Garza....
Martial Arts16-0 and No Contract: How the UFC Priced an Undefeated Fighter by His Finish RateThe referee's arm went up, the horn closed out three rounds, and Farid Bashar...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: How Finish Rate Prices a Fighter's Contract ValueOn the night of July 12, at a UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, Farid Basharat...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves UFC at 16-0: When an Undefeated Record Gets Priced by Finish CountThe announcement was fewer than two hundred characters long. Farid Basharat...
Martial ArtsA Deep Analysis of Vietnamese Martial Arts: From Empty Analytical Frameworks to Real ValueIn the world of sports and martial arts data analysis, there are cases where...
Martial ArtsDeep Sports Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on the Analytical PipelineIn the modern sports industry, data analysis has become an indispensable part...
Martial ArtsStage-2 Deep Professional Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and Lessons on Sports Information Processing PipelinesIn modern sports, especially martial arts and combat sports, deep analysis...
Martial ArtsBrendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win Built on Control Time and a Decisive Point DeductionThe defining moment of the night was not a knockout, but a point deduction....
Martial Arts27 Title Changes in 28 Years: Why the UFC Heavyweight Belt Is the Most Fragile in Combat SportsThat night, the livestream room in Shenzhen was barely twenty square meters,...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts Through the Data Lens: The Fragile Line Between Taolu, Sanda and the Professional RingAt an editorial meeting in Tokyo late last year, I placed on the table an...
Martial ArtsRAF Abu Dhabi: Tsarukyan Meets Gracie, Blades Defends Her Belt, and the Unanswered Question of the RulesetKennedy Blades has yet to give up a single point to any opponent. Not one...
Martial ArtsArman Tsarukyan to Face Gracie at RAF Abu Dhabi; Kennedy Blades Defends Title Against Bella MirOn November 14, at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, a fighter sitting inside the...
Martial ArtsSal Everett: Dana White's personal assistant scores KO of Ozzy Martin to earn UFC contractSal Everett, the personal assistant to UFC President Dana White, has official...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports Refereeing and the Technology Gap: When the Ring Moves Faster Than the RulesIn the third round of the 67kg final at a national kickboxing event held in N...
Martial ArtsThree Worlds of Combat Sports and the Trap of a Single YardstickA night in October in Busan. The studio was only about twenty square meters,...
Martial ArtsUFC 335: Alex Pereira's 39-Year-Old Gamble and the Empty Slot on the PosterFor seven days after the UFC announced the co-main event between Alex Pereira...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Discharged After Health Scare: Re-Reading the Injury Map of a 39-Year-Old FighterOn the night of September 26, in Las Vegas, the fifth round of a UFC Fight...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses in Sauna at Asian Games 2026: The Weight-Cut System Gambling with Fighters' LivesThe sauna at the Aichi-Nagoya athletes' village had no cameras, no doctor on...
Martial ArtsIndian MMA Fighter Collapses in a Sauna: Mapping an Overnight Weight Cut at the 2026 Asian GamesThe sauna has no camera. That is why I always start reading an injury case fr...
Martial ArtsAn overnight weight cut at the 2026 Asian Games: when the body becomes the final opponentOn the night of September 20, 2026, in the athletes' village at Aichi-Nagoya,...
Martial ArtsSanyal Collapsed in the Sauna: The Real Fight Was Over Before the Bell RangHe sat in the sauna for about thirty minutes before everything around him beg...
Martial ArtsLo Thi Phung at the Asian Games: A 2-1 Loss to the Top Seed and the Heartbeat Problem at 54kgThe referee raised Lee Bomi's hand before the bell that ended the extra round...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: 12 Seconds of Horror and the Lesson of the 'Olympic Champion' TrapLast Sunday night, I sat alone in the editorial office in Haiphong, rewinding...
Martial ArtsAsiad 20, September 20: Bui Ngoc Nhi's Karate Kata Bronze and the Combat Sports the Report Left OutOn September 20, in the women's individual kata event in karate at Asiad 20,...
Martial ArtsLo Thi Phung Loses to Lee Bomi in the Asian Games Quarterfinal: The Extra Round, the 54kg Weight Class and Vietnamese MMA's Conditioning GapAt the 40th second of the extra round, Lo Thi Phung still held the exact stan...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Joshua Van's Rhythm and the Sound of a Legend That Never WasSome nights leave the arena so quiet you can hear the breathing of a stranger...
Martial ArtsThe Global MMA Championship Map: Six Promotions, More Than Fifty Belts, and the Gaps Behind the GoldAt 2:47 in the morning, in a small apartment on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, ...
