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Carlo Molfetta
Carlo Molfetta (born 1984, Mesagne, Italy), Italian taekwondoka; Olympic gold +80 kg London 2012, world silver 2009, European champion 2010; later national team captain and director general of Taranto 2026 Mediterranean Games.
Carlo Orlandi
Carlo Orlandi (El Negher), deaf Italian boxer born 23 April 1910, won lightweight gold at Amsterdam 1928, then took Italian and European lightweight titles as a professional.
Carlo Pavesi
Carlo Pavesi (10 June 1923, Voghera – 24 March 1995, Milano), Italian épée fencer; four Olympic golds (team épée 1952, 1956, 1960; individual 1956) and six world team épée titles, distinct from the race walker Donato Pavesi.
Carlos Condit
Carlos Condit, "The Natural Born Killer," is a retired American MMA welterweight from New Mexico. WEC champion 2007, UFC interim champion 2012 (beat Nick Diaz), lost title bids to Georges St-Pierre and Robbie Lawler; retired 2021 at 32-14 with 28 finishes.
Carlos Diego Ferreira
Carlos Diego Ferreira (Carlos Diego Ferreira Neves), Brazilian UFC lightweight born 1985 in Manaus; jiu-jitsu black belt, 20-7 pro record, six-fight UFC win streak, rear-naked choke win over Anthony Pettis at UFC 246, fights out of McAllen, Texas for Fortis MMA.
Carlos Gracie
Carlos Gracie (1902–1994), eldest Gracie brother, founded the family's Rio de Janeiro jiu-jitsu academy and is credited on the family account with creating Brazilian jiu-jitsu; his 1925 founding date and Maeda lineage are disputed by newspaper evidence.
Carlos Monzón
Carlos Monzón (Carlos Roque Monzón), Argentine boxer nicknamed Escopeta, world middleweight champion 1970-1977 with 14 title defenses, record 87-3-9, 59 KOs, later convicted of killing his wife and died in a 1995 car crash.
Carlos Prates
Carlos Prates, "The Nightmare", Brazilian UFC welterweight from Taubaté; ex-Muay Thai pro with 100+ bouts, Contender Series 2023, 7-1 in UFC, 2024 Rookie of the Year, KO wins over Della Maddalena, Edwards, and Neal.
Carlos Takam
Carlos Takam (Armand Carlos Takam, born 1980, Douala, Cameroon) is a Franco-Cameroonian former professional heavyweight boxer, 2004 Olympian, pro 2005–2023, record 40-8-1, who fought Joshua, Parker, and Chisora.
Carlos Ulberg
Carlos Ulberg, "Black Jag" (born 1990, Auckland), New Zealand UFC light heavyweight champion and former kickboxer (19-2). Won the vacant title by first-round KO of Jiří Procházka at UFC 327, 2026, despite a torn ACL; record 15-1.
Carlson Gracie
Carlson Gracie (1932–2006), eldest son of Carlos Gracie, was a Brazilian vale tudo fighter and jiu-jitsu coach whose Copacabana academy dominated BJJ competition for two decades and seeded Brazilian Top Team.
Carmella (wrestler)
Carmella (Leah Van Dale, born 1987) is an American WWE wrestler, former Lakers cheerleader, first woman to win and cash in Money in the Bank, SmackDown Women's Champion 2018; distinct from the 2004 Diva Search Carmella.
Carmelo Hayes
Carmelo Hayes (Christian Brigham, born 1994), American WWE wrestler on SmackDown; first to hold NXT Cruiserweight, North American, and NXT Championships; 2025 Andre the Giant winner and United States Champion.
Carmelo Robledo
Carmelo Ambrosio Robledo, Argentine amateur boxer, featherweight gold medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics after placing =5 as a bantamweight at Amsterdam 1928; birth date disputed (1912 vs 1907), died 9 November 1961.
Carmen Barth
Carmen Barth, full name Carmine R. Barth, was an American middleweight boxer from Cleveland, Ohio, who won the gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Carol Huynh
Carol Huynh, born 1980 in Hazelton, British Columbia, is a retired Canadian freestyle wrestler who won 48 kg gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bronze at London 2012.
Carter Starocci
Carter Starocci (born 2001) is an American freestyle wrestler from Erie, PA, and Penn State's first-ever five-time NCAA Division I champion (2021-2025), 2022 U23 World bronze medalist, and 2025 Big Ten Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year.
Cash Wheeler
Cash Wheeler (Daniel Marshall Wheeler, b. 1987), also known as Dash Wilder, is an AEW wrestler; one half of FTR with Dax Harwood, a three-time AEW World Tag Team Champion and former WWE Tag Team Triple Crown winner as The Revival.
Cat Zingano
Cat Zingano (Cathilee 'Alpha' Zingano), American MMA pioneer, one of the first four women signed by the UFC; first woman to win a UFC fight by TKO (over Miesha Tate, TUF 17 Finale 2013); 14-5 record; later Bellator featherweight title challenger vs Cris Cyborg.
Catch wrestling
Catch wrestling (catch-as-catch-can): a 19th-century Lancashire submission wrestling style won by pin or submission, with leg attacks and joint locks allowed. Its Wigan Snake Pit lineage shaped freestyle wrestling, professional wrestling, and MMA.
Cathy Fleury Vachon
Cathy Fleury Vachon (Catherine Fleury), born 1966 in Paris, French judoka, −61 kg. Olympic gold Barcelona 1992, first French female Olympic judo champion; world and European champion 1989; later national coach and IJF referee supervisor.
Cathy Kelley
Cathy Kelley (Catherine Ann Kelley, born 1988, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American WWE backstage interviewer and journalist, Mensa member, AfterBuzz TV alum, with WWE 2016-2020 and again from October 2022, on SmackDown since 2023.
Cecile Nowak
Cécile Nowak, born 1967 in Valenciennes, French judoka; Olympic champion under 48 kg at Barcelona 1992, world champion 1991, four-time European champion; distinct from Véronique Nowak.
Cecilia Brækhus
Cecilia Brækhus, "The First Lady," Norwegian boxer born 1981 in Cartagena, Colombia; first female four-belt undisputed welterweight champion (2014), 25 title defenses, ended Norway's 33-year boxing ban, retired 2025 as two-weight world champion.
Cedric Alexander
Cedric Alexander (Cederick Alexander Johnson, born 1989) is an American pro wrestler from Charlotte, NC; WWE Cruiserweight Champion at WrestleMania 34, Hurt Business member, Raw Tag Team Champion, and TNA X Division Champion with The System.
Celal Atik
Celal Atik, born Doğan, was a Turkish wrestler who won the 1948 Olympic lightweight freestyle title and European and world championships before coaching Turkey's national team.
Cesare Salvadori
Cesare Salvadori (1941-2021), Italian sabre fencer from Turin; Olympic team sabre gold at Munich 1972, silver at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968; later led the Filadelfia Foundation rebuilding Torino FC's stadium.
Cha Dong Min
Cha Dong Min (차동민), born 1986 in Seoul, is a South Korean Olympic taekwondo heavyweight: gold at Beijing 2008, bronze at Rio 2016, first Korean man to compete at three consecutive Games, now coaching in Australia.
Chad Dawson
Chad Dawson, nicknamed "Bad Chad", is an American professional boxer from New Haven, Connecticut, who held WBC and IBF world light heavyweight titles and beat Bernard Hopkins in 2012.
Chad Gable
Chad Gable (Charles Betts) is a WWE wrestler and 2012 US Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler from Minneapolis; American Alpha and Alpha Academy member, El Grande Americano, and Intercontinental Champion from SummerSlam 2026.