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Petr Yan (Пётр Евгеньевич Ян)
Petr Yan (Пётр Евгеньевич Ян), 'No Mercy', Russian UFC bantamweight fighter born 1993 in Dudinka; two-time UFC bantamweight champion (2020, 2025), former interim champion, ex-ACB champion, known for pressure boxing and the UFC 259 DQ loss to Sterling.
Peyton Royce
Peyton Royce, real name Cassie Lee (Cassandra McIntosh), Australian wrestler; WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Billie Kay as The IIconics, later The IInspiration in Impact Wrestling.
PFL Chicago: Carmouche vs. Bishop 2
PFL Chicago: Carmouche vs. Bishop 2, October 16, 2026 at Wintrust Arena, crowns the inaugural PFL women's flyweight champion in a rematch of the 2025 tournament final Carmouche won by third-round TKO; Khizriev vs. Braga 2 co-headlines on ESPN2.
PFL New York: Nurmagomedov vs. Colgan
PFL New York: Nurmagomedov vs. Colgan, a PFL MMA event, July 31, 2026, UBS Arena, Elmont, New York. Usman Nurmagomedov TKO'd Archie Colgan at 3:42 of round one to retain the lightweight title in his final PFL contract fight.
PFL Rankings
PFL Rankings: official Professional Fighters League MMA fighter rankings launched January 27, 2026, presented by Cloudbet, administered independently by Combat Registry via a media and expert panel voting after each event; top-10 lists across nine divisions including men's Pound-for-Pound, led by Usman Nurmagomedov.
PFL Tampa: Cyborg vs. Vieira
PFL Tampa: Cyborg vs. Vieira, a PFL MMA event on August 22, 2026 in Tampa, Florida. Cris Cyborg beat Ketlen Vieira by unanimous decision at a 153 lbs catchweight after Vieira missed weight, retaining the women's featherweight title in her billed retirement fight.
Phil Baroni
Phil Baroni, "The New York Bad Ass" (born 1976), American MMA fighter from Long Island; 16-19 pro record, 3-7 in UFC, famous for an 18-second KO of Dave Menne at UFC 39 and a PRIDE 4-2 run.
Phil Davis (fighter)
Phil Davis, "Mr. Wonderful" (Phil Kwabina Davis, b. 1984), American light heavyweight MMA fighter; Penn State NCAA 197 lb champion, UFC veteran (9-3), Bellator champion 2016-17, active in PFL in 2025.
Philipe Lins
Philipe Lins, "Monstro", Brazilian MMA fighter, 2018 PFL heavyweight tournament champion and $1 million winner, UFC 2020-2024, lost by first-round KO to Francis Ngannou at Netflix's Rousey vs. Carano event in May 2026.
Philippe Boisse
Philippe Boisse, born in 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French épée fencer and radiologist who won Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984 and three world titles.
Philippe Cattiau
Philippe Cattiau (1892-1962), French fencer from Saint-Malo, foil and épée specialist; eight Olympic medals at five Games 1920-1936, three team golds (foil 1924, 1932; épée 1932), world épée champion.
Phogat sisters
Phogat sisters: Indian women wrestlers from Balali, Haryana, trained by father Mahavir Singh Phogat; Geeta, Babita, Vinesh, Ritu, Sangita, Priyanka; subjects of the film Dangal.
Piero Toscani
Piero Toscani (Pietro Toscani, 1904-1940), Italian middleweight boxer and 1928 Amsterdam Olympic gold medalist, one of the 'Three Musketeers of Amsterdam' with Tamagnini and Orlandi; controversial points final win over Jan Heřmánek; short pro career.
Pietro Lombardi
Pietro Lombardi (1922–2011), Italian Greco-Roman wrestler from Bari; won flyweight (52 kg) gold at London 1948 beating Kenan Olcay, third Italian Olympic wrestling champion, also world bronze 1950 and 1955 and 10 Italian titles.
Pietro Speciale
Pietro Speciale (1876–1945), Palermo lawyer and Italian fencer, first Sicilian Olympic participant and medalist: silver in individual foil at Stockholm 1912, gold in team foil at Antwerp 1920.
Piledriver (professional wrestling)
The piledriver is a professional wrestling maneuver in which the wrestler inverts an opponent and falls to a seated position, driving the opponent's head into the mat.
Piper Niven
Piper Niven (Kimberly Benson, born 1991) is a Scottish WWE wrestler formerly known as Viper; first ICW Women's Champion, Mae Young Classic 2017 quarterfinalist, and WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Chelsea Green.
Polyana Viana
Polyana Viana, "Dama de Ferro" (Iron Lady), Brazilian UFC women's strawweight born 1992 in Pará; former Jungle Fight champion, 13-9 record with all 13 wins by finish, jiu-jitsu brown belt.
Power Slap
Power Slap is an American professional slap-fighting league created in 2022 by Dana White with the UFC, where competitors take turns slapping each other's face.
Powerbomb
Powerbomb: professional wrestling throw lifting an opponent onto the shoulders and slamming them back-first to the mat; credited to Lou Thesz (1950s), popularized by Nash, Vader, and Sid; variations include Liger Bomb, Jackknife, Batista Bomb.
Prichard Colón
Prichard Colón (1992–2026), Puerto Rican welterweight, undefeated prospect left in a vegetative state by illegal rabbit punches from Terrel Williams on October 17, 2015; 221-day coma, WBC honorary champion, namesake of the Prichard Colón Rule; died August 13, 2026, aged 33.
Pride Fighting Championships
Pride Fighting Championships (PRIDE FC) was a Japanese MMA promotion, 1997–2007, run by Dream Stage Entertainment; known for soccer kicks and stomps, Tokyo Dome crowds, and its 2007 sale to Zuffa after a Yakuza scandal.
Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera (1906–1967), Italian heavyweight boxing champion 1933–34 after knocking out Jack Sharkey; at about 260 lb and 197 cm the heaviest champion of his era, later a wrestler and actor, his legacy contested over fixed fights.
Private Party (professional wrestling)
Private Party, tag team of Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen, formed 2015 at House of Glory; AEW originals since 2019 and AEW World Tag Team Champions October 30, 2024 to January 22, 2025, beating the Young Bucks before losing to The Hurt Syndicate.
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Los Angeles independent wrestling promotion founded 2003 by Super Dragon, Excalibur, and four others; ran Reseda's American Legion Post 308, then Globe Theatre; Battle of Los Angeles flagship; inactive since 2023.
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI), founded 1979 by Stanley Weston, is a bimonthly American pro wrestling magazine known for kayfabe-style coverage and the annual PWI 500 ranking of the world's top 500 wrestlers, published since 1991, plus the Women's 250 and year-end awards.
Pro Wrestling Noah (プロレスリング・ノア)
Pro Wrestling Noah (プロレスリング・ノア, NOAH) is a major Japanese pro wrestling promotion founded August 5, 2000 by Mitsuharu Misawa after leaving All Japan; since 2020 a CyberFight/CyberAgent brand, home of the GHC titles.
Prodan Gardzhev
Prodan Gardzhev (Продан Стоянов Гарджев, 1936–2003), Bulgarian freestyle wrestler; Olympic middleweight (87 kg) gold at Tokyo 1964 and bronze at Mexico 1968; two-time world champion (1963, 1966).
Professional boxing
Professional boxing: paid prizefighting under state commissions, scored by three judges on the 10-point must system, with four rival sanctioning bodies (WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO) issuing separate titles and rankings, regulated in the US by the 1996 PBSA and 2000 Ali Act.
Professional Fighters League
The Professional Fighters League (PFL), formerly World Series of Fighting, is an American MMA organization that became the second-largest behind the UFC after acquiring Bellator in 2023.