Martial Arts
Not the Cut, the Climb: Chi Thanh's Two Golds at Vietnam's National Sports Congress
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens, Zero Database: Why Combat Sports Is Looking at Blockchain
Five Rounds of Silence: Raoni Barcelos's Hospital Bed and the Ledger Combat Sports Never Reconciles
One Touch, Three Games of Wall: Reading Singapore's Épée Bronze From the Inside
42–41: The Scoreline That Should Not Exist in Fencing's Ledger
Vietnam’s Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope Rests on Technology and Preparation
Martial ArtsNot the Cut, the Climb: Chi Thanh's Two Golds at Vietnam's National Sports CongressThe name did not catch my eye at first. Men's kumite, under-80kg column, kara...
Martial ArtsVietnam’s Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope Rests on Technology and PreparationA headset covers the eyes, motion sensors are attached to the body, and every...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Fields on the Scorecard: What the Data Vacuum Costs Bangladesh's Combat Sports at Tactical LevelMay 2026, Dhaka. The sixth bout of the card ended at 9:40 in the evening. The...
Martial ArtsThe Medal Table Nobody Printed: From Four Karate Golds to Tokyo's ZeroThe fourteen kumite golds were all accounted for in my notebook before the...
Martial ArtsSydney Night, Five Rounds and an Asymmetric Risk: The Story Inside Salkilld vs. Saint DenisSince submitting Mateusz Gamrot in Perth last year, Quillan Salkilld's name h...
Martial ArtsBKFC 95: What Jimmie Rivera's Fourth-Round Knockout Actually Proves — and What It Doesn'tThe clock in the fourth round reads 0:46. Before that, the opponent had alrea...
Martial ArtsThe 0-6 in Bielsko-Biała: A Seventeen-Year-Old's Karate Silver and One Brutal Coaching DiagnosticThe scoreboard in the final read 0-6. At the WKF World Youth and U21 Karate...
Martial ArtsAnalysis Data Missing: Blockchain News Article Cannot Be CreatedDear readers, before I can fulfill today's request, I must clarify an importa...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Ledger: How Combat Sports' Data Void Moves the MarketIn August 2026, in the combat hall in Kuala Lumpur, I was working twelve...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Archive: Bangladesh's Real Combat-Sports ScorecardA file sits on my desk. Eleven sections, and every box carries the same...
Martial ArtsFrom the Ring to the Blockchain: Can Combat Sports Data Be Decentralized?When I joined The Daily Star sports desk in 2026, a martial arts report meant...
Martial ArtsForty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens, Zero Database: Why Combat Sports Is Looking at BlockchainOn an evening in 2026, a weigh-in was under way in a Dhaka hotel ballroom....
Martial ArtsFive Rounds of Silence: Raoni Barcelos's Hospital Bed and the Ledger Combat Sports Never ReconcilesThe camera catches the moment a stretcher enters the cage at a Las Vegas main...
Martial ArtsBreaking the Three-Games Barrier: Singapore's Historic Épée Team Bronze at the Asian GamesIn the Nagoya arena, during overtime, the scoreboard read 42-41. Singapore's...
Martial Arts42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History, and the Gap Korea ExposedI rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. In the women'...