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Rubin Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937-2014), American middleweight boxer (27-12-1, 19 KOs) wrongly convicted twice of the 1966 Paterson Lafayette Bar triple murder, imprisoned nearly 20 years, freed in 1985, later an AIDWYC wrongful-conviction advocate. Not the Carter family singers, President Jimmy Carter, or the Rubin Observatory.
Ruby Soho (wrestler)
Ruby Soho (Dori Elizabeth Prange, born 1991) is an American wrestler, formerly Heidi Lovelace on the indies and Ruby Riott in WWE, now signed to AEW, where she won her 2021 All Out debut battle royale.
Rudi Fink
Rudi Fink is a retired East German amateur boxer, born 1958 in Cottbus, who won the 1980 Olympic featherweight gold medal in Moscow and later worked as a boxing coach.
Rudolf Karpati
Rudolf Kárpáti (Kárpáti Rudolf, born Klein, 1920–1999), Hungarian sabre fencer with six Olympic golds (team 1948–1960, individual 1956 and 1960) and seven world titles, the last great classical Hungarian sabre champion.
Rudolf Svedberg
Rudolf Svedberg (Per Vilhelm Rudolf Svedberg, nicknamed Preven), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, 1936 Berlin Olympic welterweight (≤72 kg) gold medalist who beat Fritz Schäfer 2–1, and Sweden's national wrestling instructor 1945–72.
Rudolf Svensson
Rudolf Svensson (Starke Rudolf), Swedish wrestler 1899-1978; four Olympic medals: 1924 double silver, 1928 and 1932 Greco-Roman gold; Hall of Fame 2005.
Rudolf Vesper
Rudolf Vesper (born 3 April 1939, Niemil) is an East German Greco-Roman welterweight wrestler, 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold medalist, twice World Championship silver medalist (1963, 1967), and nine-time East German champion.
Rufət Huseynov
Rufət Huseynov (Rufət İlham oğlu Hüseynov), Azerbaijani light-flyweight boxer born 1997 in Ganja; won gold at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympics, European bronze 2015, and competed at Rio 2016.
Rukiya Anpo
Rukiya Anpo (安保瑠輝也), "Demolition Man", Japanese kickboxer born 1995 in Himeji; former K-1 Super Lightweight champion (2019, two defenses), Pacquiao exhibition draw 2024, now 0-1 in ONE Championship.
Rulon Gardner
Rulon Gardner, American Greco-Roman wrestler born 1971 in Afton, Wyoming, won 2000 Sydney Olympic super-heavyweight gold by upsetting unbeaten Alexandre Karelin 1-0, took 2004 Athens bronze, and won the 2001 world title.
Rush (wrestler)
Rush (William Arturo Muñoz González, El Toro Blanco), Mexican luchador born 1988 in Tala, Jalisco; CMLL star, founder of Los Ingobernables (2014), former ROH World Champion, now in AEW leading La Facción Ingobernable.
Ruslan Chagaev (Руслан Шамилевич Чагаев)
Ruslan Chagaev (Руслан Шамилович Чагаев), "White Tyson", Uzbek heavyweight boxer born 1978 in Andijon; two-time WBA heavyweight champion (2007-09, 2014-16), who beat Nikolay Valuev and lost to Wladimir Klitschko in 2009.
Ruslan Provodnikov (Руслан Михайлович Проводников)
Ruslan Provodnikov (Руслан Михайлович Проводников), "The Russian Rocky", Russian boxer born 1984 in Beryozovo, Siberia; WBO light welterweight champion 2013-2014, 2013 Fight of the Year vs Timothy Bradley, record 25-5 (18 KOs), retired 2016.
Russ Vis
Russ Vis (Russell John Vis, 1900-1990), American freestyle wrestler; won 1924 Paris Olympic gold at 145 lb lightweight and four straight National AAU titles 1921-24; NWHOF Distinguished Member 1977.
Rustam Khabilov
Rustam "Tiger" Khabilov, Russian MMA fighter born 1986 in Makhachkala, Dagestan; 24-4 pro record, 10-3 in the UFC lightweight division, suplex-KO debut, later signed with Bellator.
Rustem Kazakov
Rustem Kazakov (Рустем Абдуллаевич Казаков, Rustem Abdulla oğlu Kazakov), born 1947 in Tashkent, Soviet Greco-Roman bantamweight wrestler, 1972 Olympic champion and 1969 and 1971 world champion; later a coach and Crimean Kurash Federation president.
Ryan Bader
Ryan DuWayne Bader, nicknamed "Darth", is an American mixed martial artist born in 1983 who won The Ultimate Fighter 8, then became the first Bellator fighter to hold two titles at once.
Ryan Garcia
Ryan Garcia, nicknamed "King Ry", is an American professional boxer from Victorville, California who won WBC interim lightweight gold in 2021 and became WBC welterweight champion in 2026.
Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando Romero
Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando Romero, May 2, 2025, Times Square: underdog Romero (Rolly) upset Garcia by unanimous decision (115-112x2, 118-109) with a second-round knockdown to win the vacant WBA welterweight title on Ring Magazine's first Times Square card.
Ryan Hall (fighter)
Ryan Hall (born 1985), "The Wizard," American UFC featherweight and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Felipe Costa; 2009 ADCC bronze medalist, TUF 22 winner, heel-hook specialist associated with the 50/50 guard; pro MMA record 9-2.
Ryan Nemeth
Ryan Nemeth, American pro wrestler, actor, and comedian; younger brother of Nic Nemeth (Dolph Ziggler). WWE developmental as Briley Pierce, AEW's Hollywood Hunk and Wingmen member, later TNA.
Ryan Spann
Ryan "Superman" Spann (born 1991) is an American UFC heavyweight and former light heavyweight contender, 24-12 with 14 submission wins, a DWCS graduate, peak #8 at light heavyweight, now 10-7 in the UFC.
Ryback
Ryback (Ryback Allen Reeves, born Ryan Allen Reeves, 1981, Las Vegas) is an American wrestler, formerly Skip Sheffield of the Nexus, whose 2012 WWE main-event push failed, who won the 2015 Intercontinental Championship, and who left WWE in 2016 for podcasting and Feed Me More Nutrition.
Ryo Kiyuna
Ryo Kiyuna (喜友名諒, born 1990) is an Okinawan Japanese karateka, first Olympic men's kata champion (Tokyo 2020) and first male kata athlete with four World Karate Championships titles (2014-2021).
Ryohei Oiwa
Ryohei Oiwa (大岩 陵平, born 1998) is a Japanese NJPW wrestler, TMDK member, ex-NOAH excursion trainee, and G1 Climax 36 winner with the shortest debut-to-G1 career in history.
Ryoko Tamura Tani
Ryoko Tamura Tani (谷亮子), Japanese judoka born 1975 in Fukuoka; won judo medals at five straight Olympics 1992–2008 (gold 2000, 2004) and seven world titles in the 48 kg class, then entered Japanese politics.
Ryōta Murata
Ryōta Murata (村田諒太, born 1986, Nara) is a retired Japanese middleweight boxer, 2012 London Olympic gold medalist and two-time WBA middleweight world champion, the first Japanese champion at both Olympic and professional level.
Ryszard Wolny
Ryszard Wolny (Ryszard Marcin Wolny), Polish Greco-Roman wrestler born 1969 in Racibórz; won lightweight (≤68 kg) gold at Atlanta 1996 with a 7-0 final over Ghani Yalouz after entering on a wild card, and competed in five Olympics, 1988-2004.
Saban Trstena
Saban Trstena (Šaban Trstena, Шабан Трстена, Shaban Tërstena), born 1965 in Skopje, is a Macedonian freestyle wrestler who won 1984 Olympic 52 kg gold for Yugoslavia at 19, the youngest male wrestling champion, and 1988 silver.
Sabine Bau
Sabine Bau (born 1969, Würzburg), German foil fencer; 1988 Olympic team champion and individual silver medalist, four-time world champion, later an orthopaedic surgeon in Würzburg.