Martial Arts
Martial ArtsDana White's personal assistant earns a UFC contract by knockout: a real result, a packaged storyThe clock at UFC Meta Apex stopped at 1:57 of the first round. Sal Everett...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports: From Traditional Training Halls to the Professional ArenaIn the landscape of Vietnamese sport in the first two decades of the...
Martial ArtsThe Whisper of Limits: When the Track Isn't Just for WinnersI have never run a single step on an Olympic track. Yet for eleven years, I...
Martial ArtsCommercial Martial Arts: When Money and Scorecards Tell Two Different StoriesIn the weigh-in room, the number appears on the electronic screen. There is n...
Martial ArtsBuakaw Banchamek, 44, Beats Meng Gaofeng for the Second Time This Year: The Round-Two Adjustment and the Question of ClassMax Muay Thai Stadium in Chonburi, Thailand, was not a packed house. I sat in...
Martial ArtsZhang Songxi: From a Ming Dynasty Tailor to a Fictional Wudang ShadowIn the local records of Ningbo Prefecture there is one detail that made me...
Martial ArtsZhang Songxi: The Tailor Who Has No Page in Wudang's HistoryBefore the match took place, a document was drawn up. Not a commercial...
Martial ArtsThe Pulse of Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Keepers of the Rhythm Between the Training Hall and the ArenaEarly one morning, in a small dojo tucked deep in an alley of an outlying...
Martial ArtsThe Heartbeat from the Dressing Room: When Chiang Mai United Learned to SurviveIn their last three matches, Chiang Mai United's PPDA has dropped from 11.4 t...
Martial ArtsUFC 335: 39-Year-Old Pereira Faces Pavlovich — The Gamble the Promoters Won't NameThere is a moment television cameras never replay. It is the moment Alex...
Martial ArtsUFC 335: Alex Pereira's Age-39 Gamble and the Trap Named Sergei PavlovichLast Saturday evening, when the official UFC 335 announcement lit up my phone...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: Round Five, Age 39, and the Grey Zone of Fighter SafetyOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the main...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: The Heartbeat of a 39-Year-Old Fighter and the Questions Left UnansweredOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, inside the octagon of a UFC Fight...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Round-5 KO: When Age 39 Becomes a Verdict at BantamweightOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, when the referee stepped into the...
Martial ArtsUFC bantamweight Raoni Barcelos out of hospital after KO scare: The age curve as a line between life and careerWhen the stretcher was pushed out of the cage at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas...
Martial ArtsNguyen Thi Tam Reaches the 2026 Asiad Final: At 32, a Fighter Swimming Against the Biological ClockI rewatched Nguyen Thi Tam's last four bouts, and what made me pause was not...
Martial ArtsDinh Van Tam: The Asiad 20 Silver and the Bill of a Training ChildhoodI sat in my small studio in Hanoi, rewinding the tape of the men's sanda fina...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Discharged From Hospital After UFC Fight Night Health Scare: Age 39 and the Limits of BantamweightRaoni Barcelos left the octagon on a stretcher, and that is the image I keep...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos and the Final Invoice: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter's Body Has No Room Left to NegotiateRound five of a main event. Raoni Barcelos lies on the canvas, unresponsive....
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos: 39 Years Old, Round Five, and the Line Between Will and DamageRound five. There was no clean knockout in the opening frame, no early...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Joshua Van Establishes Elite Status, Gable Steveson Falls in 12 SecondsThe loudest sound at UFC 331 was not the roar of the crowd. It was the sound ...
Martial ArtsSingapore's First Women's Epee Team Medal: Reading the Quarter-Final Through FIE RulesThe decisive touch fell in the final minute of the ninth bout. The scoreboard...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports: From Traditional Training Halls to the Professional ArenaIn the landscape of Vietnamese sport in the first two decades of the...
Martial ArtsThe Whisper of Limits: When the Track Isn't Just for WinnersI have never run a single step on an Olympic track. Yet for eleven years, I...
Martial ArtsCommercial Martial Arts: When Money and Scorecards Tell Two Different StoriesIn the weigh-in room, the number appears on the electronic screen. There is n...
Martial ArtsBuakaw Banchamek, 44, Beats Meng Gaofeng for the Second Time This Year: The Round-Two Adjustment and the Question of ClassMax Muay Thai Stadium in Chonburi, Thailand, was not a packed house. I sat in...
Martial ArtsZhang Songxi: From a Ming Dynasty Tailor to a Fictional Wudang ShadowIn the local records of Ningbo Prefecture there is one detail that made me...
Martial ArtsZhang Songxi: The Tailor Who Has No Page in Wudang's HistoryBefore the match took place, a document was drawn up. Not a commercial...
Martial ArtsThe Pulse of Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Keepers of the Rhythm Between the Training Hall and the ArenaEarly one morning, in a small dojo tucked deep in an alley of an outlying...
Martial ArtsThe Heartbeat from the Dressing Room: When Chiang Mai United Learned to SurviveIn their last three matches, Chiang Mai United's PPDA has dropped from 11.4 t...
Martial ArtsUFC 335: 39-Year-Old Pereira Faces Pavlovich — The Gamble the Promoters Won't NameThere is a moment television cameras never replay. It is the moment Alex...
Martial ArtsUFC 335: Alex Pereira's Age-39 Gamble and the Trap Named Sergei PavlovichLast Saturday evening, when the official UFC 335 announcement lit up my phone...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: Round Five, Age 39, and the Grey Zone of Fighter SafetyOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the main...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: The Heartbeat of a 39-Year-Old Fighter and the Questions Left UnansweredOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, inside the octagon of a UFC Fight...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Round-5 KO: When Age 39 Becomes a Verdict at BantamweightOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, when the referee stepped into the...
Martial ArtsUFC bantamweight Raoni Barcelos out of hospital after KO scare: The age curve as a line between life and careerWhen the stretcher was pushed out of the cage at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas...
Martial ArtsNguyen Thi Tam Reaches the 2026 Asiad Final: At 32, a Fighter Swimming Against the Biological ClockI rewatched Nguyen Thi Tam's last four bouts, and what made me pause was not...
Martial ArtsDinh Van Tam: The Asiad 20 Silver and the Bill of a Training ChildhoodI sat in my small studio in Hanoi, rewinding the tape of the men's sanda fina...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Discharged From Hospital After UFC Fight Night Health Scare: Age 39 and the Limits of BantamweightRaoni Barcelos left the octagon on a stretcher, and that is the image I keep...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos and the Final Invoice: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter's Body Has No Room Left to NegotiateRound five of a main event. Raoni Barcelos lies on the canvas, unresponsive....
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos: 39 Years Old, Round Five, and the Line Between Will and DamageRound five. There was no clean knockout in the opening frame, no early...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Joshua Van Establishes Elite Status, Gable Steveson Falls in 12 SecondsThe loudest sound at UFC 331 was not the roar of the crowd. It was the sound ...
Martial ArtsSingapore's First Women's Epee Team Medal: Reading the Quarter-Final Through FIE RulesThe decisive touch fell in the final minute of the ninth bout. The scoreboard...
