Martial Arts
UFC 335: Pereira Meets Pavlovich at Heavyweight — Five Rounds, No Belt, and a Press Release Nobody Has Verified
No Call Ever Came: UFC Lets Farid Basharat Walk at 29 Despite a 16-0 Record, and the Data Warned Us First
Deep Martial Arts Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and the Analytical Consequences
A 75-Year-Old Referee Died From a Wrestling Move: The Real Verdict Isn't in the Move's Name
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Six Men's Divisions, Seven Women's Divisions, and the Medical GapAt 6 a.m. on 22 October, the gymnasium of the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Trainin...
Muay Thai opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival in Ho Chi Minh City: 13 weight classes, 11 days, and the gaps nobody has publishedAt 6:00 a.m. on October 22, 2026, the lights come on in a public-service...
UFC 335: Pereira Meets Pavlovich at Heavyweight — Five Rounds, No Belt, and a Press Release Nobody Has VerifiedIn the left corner of the dressing room, a gap remains on the steel hook. The...
The Empty Seat in Bielsko-Biała: Tran Thi Cam Tu's World Silver and the Weight-Class Puzzle Nobody SolvedIn a 57-athlete bracket in Bielsko-Biała, there was a small paper sheet taped...
UFC 332: Nine First-Round Knockouts and the Limits of a Matchmaking RecordOver seven years of watching training sessions and fight tape in Incheon, I...
Jung Chan-sung Retires: Korean MMA Loses Its Anchor and Exposes a Structural VoidOn August 26, 2026, at Singapore Indoor Stadium, in the third round, Max...
UFC Heavyweight 2026–2026: 27 Reigns and the Architecture of InstabilityIn September 2026, in Las Vegas, the UFC heavyweight championship belt sits i...
16-0 But Cut by the UFC: Farid Basharat and the Limits of a Perfect RecordMy phone buzzed at 2 a.m. Tokyo time. On the screen was a short notification:...
16-0 and Still Cut by the UFC: The Story of Farid Basharat and How a Promotion Prices a WinOn a July night, Farid Basharat stepped out of the octagon with both arms...
No Call Ever Came: UFC Lets Farid Basharat Walk at 29 Despite a 16-0 Record, and the Data Warned Us FirstFarid Basharat walked out of the Octagon with his hand raised after a...
Farid Basharat Leaves the UFC at 16-0: When an Unbeaten Record Is No Longer CurrencyIn July 2026, I sat in a small newsroom in Hai Phong and typed a prediction...
16-0 and Still Cut: The UFC Pays for Moments, Not for WinsI still remember that night in Las Vegas, not because of any single punch, bu...
100 Grams and a Verdict Without a Court: How Korean Judo Dug the Grave of Jung Su-jin's CareerThe countdown clock on the wall of the waiting room did not count seconds. It...
Basharat Leaves the UFC at 16-0: A Perfect Record Cannot Pay Octagon RentIn an old notebook of mine, the page dated July 6, 2026 still carries a...
Deep Martial Arts Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty and the Analytical ConsequencesIn the professional sports analysis process, the quality of input data...
A 75-Year-Old Referee Died From a Wrestling Move: The Real Verdict Isn't in the Move's NameGerardo Germán Pineda stepped into the ring at 75. In Mexico's lucha libre...
When Football Data Cannot Tell a Story: Notes on the Limits of Sports AnalysisThe empty stand, yet the heart still beats each rhythm. I stayed in my Shangh...
Stage-2 Deep Analysis: When Input Data Is Empty, Every Martial Arts Conclusion Is ImpossibleIn the two-stage martial arts data analysis pipeline, Stage 1 is responsible...
When the Stadium Falls Silent: Four Decades of Keeping Rhythm and Lessons from a Broken PipelineI sit in the third row of the eastern stand, where I have sat for fifteen...
Pakistan and the Empty Olympic Mat: A Funding Collapse Before the 2027 Qualification WindowOn the muddy floor of a kushti arena in Punjab, a young wrestler has just...
Funding crunch: Pakistan's Olympic wrestling and the risk of a blank slate at LA 2028Hook Six months of overseas training was the plan the Pakistan Wrestling...