Karen Inman (born 11 April 1963) is a British judoka who won numerous World and European Championship medals in judo. She is considered one of the UK’s most successful competitive judoka. She represented the United Kingdom in the 1992 Summer Olympics, the first year Womens’ Judo was included as an Olympic sport (first as... more »
Karapet (Karo) Parisyan (Armenian, born August 28, 1982) is an Armenian-American mixed martial artist. His fighting style is primarily Judo but has been modified to fight without the use of a judogi (sometimes called no-gi style). Karo currently competes for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Karo’s family migrated to America when he was six years... more »
Lyoto Carvalho Machida (born May 30, 1978) is a Japanese-Brazilian mixed martial artist from Belém, Brazil who fights as a Light Heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and holds notables wins over former UFC champions Rich Franklin, B.J. Penn, Tito Ortiz, Rashad Evans, Randy Couture,... more »
Marco Antônio de Lima Ruas (born January 23, 1961) is a retired mixed martial arts fighter and instructor. Most notably, he was the UFC 7 Tournament Champion and is considered one of the earliest examples of the complete mixed martial artist, highly skilled in both striking and grappling. Ruas is famous for being the... more »
Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler, in Newark, New Jersey, May 23, 1954), is a former professional boxer who was undisputed world middleweight champion between 1980 and 1987. Hagler was one of the best middleweight fighters of recent years and an All-Time great; He was a hard hitting left-hander who was capable of... more »
Matt Hughes was born on October 13, 1973 in Hillboro, Illinois. He is the two-time UFC welterweight champion and an icon in the sport of mixed martial arts. Until 2007, he fought for the Pat Militech team, but recently formed Team Hughes and started his own gym along with a couple other fighters. Hughes... more »
Mike Tyson is one of the most notorious boxers in prizefighting history thanks to his actions both inside the ring and out. His speed, power and angry aggression earned him the World Boxing Council heavyweight title in 1986, making him the youngest champion ever. The next year he won the World Boxing Association title... more »
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay) was born 17 January 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky to parents of modest circumstances. He started boxing in junior high, when he learned boxing from a policeman at a local gym. By the time that Ali had reached high school, he already intended to be a prizefighter and hoped to... more »
Neil Adrian Adams, (born in Rugby, Warwickshire on 27 September 1958) is a British judoka who won numerous Olympic and World Championship medals in Judo. Adams was the first British male ever to win a World title, and the first British male ever to simultaneously hold a world title and a European title. Other... more »
Peter Seisenbacher (born March 25, 1960 in Vienna) is one of the most successful judo practitioners and participants of the Olympic Games from Austria. For his first Summer Olympics 1984 in Los Angeles, Seisenbacher exercised in Japan, where he found optimal training conditions. He won his first Olympic gold medal in the Men’s Middleweight... more »
Primo Carnera (October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967) was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion. Born in Sequals, then in the Province of Udine, now Province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy), Carnera was a remarkable 205 cm, tall and weighed 284 pounds (129 kg), at a... more »
Randy Duane Couture (born June 22, 1963) is a retired American mixed martial artist, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, a three-time former heavyweight champion and a two-time light-heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Couture is the first fighter to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (heavyweight and light heavyweight). Couture has competed... more »
Rocky Marciano is one of the hardest punchers ever who’s biggest claim to fame is being the only undefeated Heavyweight champion. Marciano wasn’t that smooth as far as finesse is concerned, but he made up for it by punishing his opponents with power. There’s been a back and forth Marciano debate for decades. Some... more »
Roy Jones, Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. As a professional, he has captured numerous world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. He is the only boxer in history to start his career as a light middleweight (154 lbs), and go on to win a... more »
Royce Gracie (born December 12, 1966) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist, a UFC Hall of Famer and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. A legend and pioneer in the sport of mixed martial arts, he is widely considered to be the most influential figure in the history of modern MMA. Gracie gained fame for his... more »
Ryoko Tani (born September 6, 1975) is a japanese female judoka. She is one of the world’s most famous and successful judoka. She is commonly known as ‘Yawara-chan’or ‘Tawara’ (from the title character of Yawara!, a popular judo manga). Since she won the International Women’s Judo Championships in 1990, ‘Yawara-chan’ has gone on to... more »
Satoshi Ishii (born December 19, 1986) is a Japanese judoka and mixed martial artist noted for winning a gold medal in Olympic Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games and two All-Japan Judo Championships. Ishii made his professional MMA debut at Dynamite!! 2009... more »