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Willie Smith (William Alexander "Willie"•Smith)
Willie Smith (William Alexander Smith, 1904-1955), South African boxer, 1924 Paris Olympic bantamweight gold medallist who beat Al Tripoli, and British version world bantamweight champion after outpointing Teddy Baldock in 1927.
Wing Chun
Wing Chun (詠春, Ving Tsun), southern Chinese close-range martial art from Guangdong, ~300 years old; three empty-hand forms, chi sao, wooden dummy; spread globally by Ip Man (1893–1972) and Bruce Lee; effectiveness debated versus MMA.
Winky Wright
Winky Wright, ring name of Ronald Lamont Wright, is an American former boxer who held junior middleweight world titles and entered the Hall of Fame in 2018.
Witold Woyda
Witold Woyda (1939–2008) was a Polish foil fencer who won four Olympic medals, including individual and team foil gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics, plus ten World Championship medals.
Wladimir Klitschko (Володимир Кличко)
Wladimir Klitschko (Володимир Кличко), Ukrainian heavyweight boxer, 1996 Olympic gold, 64-5 with 53 KOs, longest cumulative heavyweight reign (4,382 days), IBHOF 2021, now Ukraine envoy.
Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury
Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury: 28 November 2015 heavyweight title fight in Düsseldorf where unbeaten challenger Fury outpointed long-reigning champion Klitschko 115-112, 115-112, 116-111 to win the WBA, IBF, and WBO belts.
Wladimir Reznitschenko
Wladimir Reznitschenko (Владимир Измайлович Резниченко), born 1965 in Almaty, is an épée fencer who won Olympic team bronze for the USSR at Seoul 1988 and Olympic team gold for Germany at Barcelona 1992 after defecting in 1990.
Włodzimierz Zawadzki
Włodzimierz Zawadzki, Polish Greco-Roman wrestler nicknamed "Diabeł", born 1967 in Polany; Olympic featherweight gold at Atlanta 1996, four-time Olympian, three-time European champion, later national coach.
Wolfgang Behrendt
Wolfgang Behrendt (1936-2026), East German bantamweight boxer; won gold at Melbourne 1956, the first Olympic gold for the GDR, beating Song Soon-Chun 2-1; later a sports photographer for Neues Deutschland.
Women in WWE
Women in WWE: female performers of WWE, once called Divas. Spans Fabulous Moolah's 1956-1984 title reign, the 2008 Divas Championship, and the 2015 Women's Evolution led by Lynch, Flair, and Banks, culminating in WrestleMania 35's first women's main event.
Women of Wrestling
WOW – Women Of Wrestling, an all-female American pro wrestling promotion founded in 2000 by GLOW creator David McLane and co-owned by Jeanie Buss; relaunched 2012, aired on AXS TV from 2019, CBS syndication from 2022, Paramount-distributed, Las Vegas-based Season 4.
Women's World Championship (WWE)
Women's World Championship (WWE), formerly SmackDown Women's Championship, a women's world wrestling title established August 23, 2016, renamed June 12, 2023, defended on Raw; current champion Liv Morgan, fourth reign, won October 10, 2026.
Won U Yeong
Won U-Yeong (원우영, born 1982, Seoul) is a retired South Korean sabre fencer, 2012 London Olympic team gold medalist, 2010 world individual sabre champion, and the first Asian to win that world title.
Wong Fei-hung
Wong Fei-hung (黃飛鴻, 1847–1924/25) was a Guangdong Hung Gar martial artist, physician, and lion dancer, the most portrayed hero in Hong Kong cinema with over 100 films since 1949, played by Kwan Tak-hing, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li.
World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association (WBA), founded 1921 as the National Boxing Association and renamed 1962, is a major professional boxing sanctioning body sanctioning world titles, rankings, and Super/Regular champions, based in Panama.
World Boxing Council
World Boxing Council (WBC), Mexico City-based professional boxing sanctioning body founded February 14, 1963 under Adolfo López Mateos; one of four major bodies (with WBA, IBF, WBO) awarding green world-title belts, rankings, and 3% sanction fees.
World Boxing Organization
World Boxing Organization (WBO), professional boxing sanctioning body founded 1988 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; one of four major bodies with WBA, WBC, IBF; ranks fighters in 17 weight classes, 501(c)(3) non-profit, president Gustavo Olivieri.
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion owned by Ted Turner from 1988 to 2001, known for the Monday Night Wars against the WWF.
World championships in WWE
World championships in WWE are the promotion's top men's singles titles: the Undisputed WWE Championship (1963, Buddy Rogers) and the World Heavyweight Championship (2023, Seth Rollins), plus the 2002-2013 World Heavyweight and 2016-2024 Universal titles.
World Class Championship Wrestling
World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), also Big Time Wrestling and World Class Wrestling Association, was the Fritz Von Erich family's Dallas Sportatorium promotion, 1966–1990, famed for 1980s TV innovation, the Von Erich–Freebirds feud, and the 1984 Parade of Champions.
World fencing championships
The World Fencing Championships are fencing's senior world titles, organized by the International Fencing Federation in six individual and six team events, held annually except in Olympic years.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013)
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013), the Big Gold belt world title created by Eric Bischoff on Raw for Triple H after the brand split; unified into the WWE Championship by Randy Orton at TLC 2013.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)
The World Heavyweight Championship is WWE's men's world title introduced in 2023 by Triple H, won first by Seth Rollins at Night of Champions 2023, with a new lineage separate from the retired 2002-2013 Big Gold Belt title.
World Taekwondo (세계태권도)
World Taekwondo (세계태권도), formerly the WTF, is the IOC- and IPC-recognized federation governing Olympic and Paralympic taekwondo. Founded 1973 in Seoul; renamed 2017; 215 members; 1–5 point kyorugi scoring via electronic PSS.
World Wonder Ring Stardom
World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom, 株式会社スターダム) is a Tokyo-based all-women's Japanese joshi puroresu promotion running since July 2011, owned by Bushiroad since 2019, home of the World of Stardom Title and 5★STAR GP.
Worlds Collide (2020)
Worlds Collide (2020), WWE Network special, January 25, 2020, Toyota Center, Houston: NXT versus NXT UK for brand supremacy. Imperium beat Undisputed ERA; Devlin won the Cruiserweight Title; Ripley retained against Storm.
Worlds Collide (2022)
Worlds Collide (2022), or NXT Worlds Collide, was a WWE premium live event on September 4, 2022 in Orlando, Florida, unifying NXT and NXT UK championships before NXT UK's relaunch as NXT Europe; Bron Breakker defeated Tyler Bate in the main event.
Worlds Collide (2026)
Worlds Collide (2026), WWE x AAA crossover event taped September 26, 2026 at Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois, streamed September 30 on YouTube; main event CM Punk, Rey Mysterio and El Grande Americano beat Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh and Omos; counterprogrammed AEW All Out.
Worlds Collide (June 2025)
Worlds Collide (June 2025) was a WWE and Lucha Libre AAA co-promoted wrestling event on June 7, 2025 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, streamed on YouTube; Vikingo retained the AAA Mega Championship against Chad Gable with no title changes.
Worlds Collide (September 2025)
Worlds Collide: Las Vegas was a WWE and AAA professional wrestling event on September 12, 2025, in Paradise, Nevada, where Dominik Mysterio won the AAA Mega Championship.