Martial Arts
Nine Point Seven Zero Three: A Fourth Asian Games in Twelve Years, Between Sword and Spear
0.133 Points and Five Asian Games: The Farewell Buried Inside Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze
UFC 331: The 12-Second Reckoning and Three Empty Boxes in My Ledger
The Downbeat of an Empty Desk: Why South Asian Combat Sports Never Keeps Its Own Record
UFC 331: The 12-Second Reckoning and Three Empty Boxes in My LedgerHook I set my alarm for four in the morning. I had already drawn three column...
The Downbeat of an Empty Desk: Why South Asian Combat Sports Never Keeps Its Own RecordHook — That Evening Behind the Hall In November 2026, Bangladesh's first...
Nine Point Seven Zero Three: A Fourth Asian Games in Twelve Years, Between Sword and SpearThe single item that reached my desk from the Aichi-Nagoya gymnasium last wee...
The UFC 331 Ledger: The Fourteenth Chair, Twelve Seconds, and the Lightweight ClaimIn the last two minutes of the fifth round, Alexandre Pantoja threw a kick....
No Evidence, No Verdict: Autopsy of an Empty Input"I rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering." That night,...
0.133 Points and Five Asian Games: The Farewell Buried Inside Duong Thuy Vi's BronzeThe story ran in Vietnam's Tiền Phong. I read it from a Nagoya apartment at...
The Arithmetic of the Blade: 42–41, 35–45 and Singapore's First BronzeI opened the laptop in my Colombo flat just before midnight. The feed was...
Singapore's Blade on a Nagoya Strip: The Ten-Touch Gap Is the Real StoryThe time-zone excuse failed me this cycle. For eight years I have written fro...
Forty-Two to Forty-One in a Forty-Five-Touch Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Column Nobody FilesMy red notebook has kept a page empty for épée for seven years. In 2026, at t...
42–41, Then 35–45: The Two Columns of Singapore's Fencing BronzeOne cell in my ledger stayed empty that night. The column header read "bronze...