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Derrick Lewis
Derrick Lewis, "The Black Beast" (born 1985, New Orleans), American UFC heavyweight brawler; record 29-14; holds UFC record 16 knockouts; lost title fights to Cormier (UFC 230) and Gane (UFC 265).
Destination X (2026)
Destination X (2026): TNA Wrestling pay-per-view returning November 15, 2026 at Edmonton Expo Centre, Canada; Trey Miguel challenges Leon Slater for the TNA World Championship; part of the Ultimate X-centered Destination X series.
Deuce (wrestler)
Deuce (James William Reiher Jr., born 1971), son of Jimmy Snuka, is an American wrestler who teamed with Domino as 1950s greasers, won the WWE Tag Team Championship in 2007, and later wrestled as Sim Snuka.
Devin Haney
Devin Haney, full name Devin Miles Haney, is an American professional boxer from San Francisco who became the youngest undisputed four-belt champion in boxing history at age 23.
Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia
Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia, the April 20, 2024 Barclays Center bout for Haney's WBC super lightweight title; overweight Garcia won a majority decision with three knockdowns, later ruled a no contest after a positive ostarine test.
Devon Larratt
Devon 'No Limits' Larratt, Canadian professional arm wrestler and Canadian Armed Forces veteran; beat John Brzenk 6-0 in 2008, WAL both-arms Open World Champion, King of the Table and East vs West headliner.
Dexter Lumis
Dexter Lumis, real name Samuel Shaw, is an American professional wrestler, a silent horror-styled WWE character, NXT Breakout Tournament 2019, Indi Hartwell storyline, and WWE Tag Team Champion with Joe Gacy in The Wyatt Sicks (July 2025 to January 2026); released by WWE April 24, 2026, then signed by TNA.
Dezso Foldes
Dezso Foldes (Dezső Földes, 1880–1950) was a Hungarian sabre fencer and surgeon who won Olympic team sabre gold at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912, then emigrated to Cleveland, USA.
Diamond Dallas Page
Diamond Dallas Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg), WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, three-time WCW world champion, and creator of DDP Yoga, a low-impact fitness program combining yoga, calisthenics, rehab, and dynamic resistance.
Diana Bianchedi
Diana Bianchedi, born 1969 in Milan, is an Italian foil fencer and sports executive: two Olympic team golds (Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000), five world team titles, first female CONI vice president, and Milano Cortina 2026 strategy chief.
Diana Hart
Diana Hart (Diana Joyce Hart, born 1963) is a Canadian author, bodybuilder, and member of the Hart wrestling family; daughter of Stu and Helen Hart, ex-wife of Davey Boy Smith, author of Under the Mat and the Cauliflower Heart trilogy.
Dick Gunn
Dick Gunn (Richard Kenneth Gunn, 1871-1961), British amateur boxer, 1908 London Olympic featherweight gold medalist and oldest ever Olympic boxing champion at 37 years 254 days; three-time ABA champion 1894-96.
Dick Murdoch
Dick Murdoch (Hoyt Richard Murdoch, 1946–1996), Texan pro wrestler, half of The Texas Outlaws with Dusty Rhodes, WWF Tag Team Champion with Adrian Adonis, Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame 2013.
Dick the Bruiser
Dick the Bruiser, ring name of William Fritz Afflis (1929–1991), was an American wrestler and former Green Bay Packers lineman who founded the Indianapolis-based World Wrestling Association.
Dicky Eklund
Dicky Eklund (Richard Eklund Jr., born 1957), Lowell, Massachusetts welterweight boxer who fought Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978, trained half-brother Micky Ward to the 2000 WBU title, battled crack addiction, and was portrayed by Oscar winner Christian Bale in The Fighter (2010).
Didier Flament
Didier Flament (born 1951, Tourcoing) is a French foil fencer, Olympic team foil gold medalist at Moscow 1980 and bronze medalist at Montreal 1976, and individual world foil champion at Hamburg 1978.
Diego Brandão
Diego Brandão (Diego Pereira Brandão, "DB", "Ceara"), Brazilian featherweight MMA fighter born 1987 in Fortaleza; TUF 14 winner, UFC 6-4, lost to McGregor in Dublin 2014, 2025 Tuff-N-Uff champion.
Diego Corrales
Diego "Chico" Corrales, American two-division boxing champion (junior lightweight and lightweight), famous for the 2005 tenth-round TKO of Jose Luis Castillo, a Fight of the Year classic; died in a 2007 motorcycle crash at 29.
Diego Lopes (fighter)
Diego Lopes, Brazilian UFC featherweight and elite jiu-jitsu grappler from a BJJ family; short-notice 2023 debut vs Evloev, beat Ortega and Jean Silva, lost two title fights to Volkanovski (UFC 314, 325).
Diego Sanchez
Diego Sanchez, "The Nightmare" (born 1981, Albuquerque), retired American MMA fighter; won The Ultimate Fighter season 1 middleweight, 30-14 record, UFC Hall of Famer, later BKFC.
Dieter Kottysch
Dieter Kottysch (30 June 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a West German amateur boxer, 1972 Munich Olympic light-middleweight gold medalist, beating Wiesław Rudkowski 3-2; first West German Olympic boxing champion after World War II.
Dietmar Lorenz
Dietmar Lorenz (1950-2021), East German judoka of SC Dynamo Hoppegarten, first German Olympic judo champion, winning open-class gold and -95 kg bronze at Moscow 1980; also first non-Japanese Kano Cup winner (1978).
Dillian Whyte
Dillian Whyte, born in Jamaica in 1988, is a British-Jamaican professional heavyweight boxer nicknamed "The Body Snatcher", who won the British heavyweight title and challenged Tyson Fury for the WBC title at Wembley in 2022.
Dillon Danis
Dillon Danis, "El Jefe" (born 1993), American Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Marcelo Garcia, Conor McGregor's grappling coach, 2-0 in Bellator MMA, disqualified against Logan Paul in 2023 boxing.
Dimitar Dobrev
Dimitar Dobrev (Димитър Добрев, 1931–2019), Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, middleweight Olympic gold at Rome 1960 and silver at Melbourne 1956; later national coach who discovered Boyan Radev and Petar Kirov.
Dino Bravo
Dino Bravo (Adolfo Bresciano, 1948–1993), Italian-Canadian wrestler and Montreal promoter, WWWF tag champion, WWF Canadian champion and strongman heel, murdered in 1993.
Dion Lennox
Dion Lennox, ring name of Andrzej Hughes-Murray (born 1998), WWE NXT wrestler and DarkState member; former college linebacker, LA Rams 2022 preseason, NXT Tag Team Champion.
Disco Inferno (wrestler)
Disco Inferno (Glenn Gilbertti, born 1968, Brooklyn) is an American professional wrestler famous for his 1995-2001 WCW disco-dancing gimmick, winning WCW Television, Cruiserweight, and Tag Team titles, later TNA and podcasting.
Distria Krasniqi
Distria Krasniqi, Kosovar judoka (born 1995, Pejë), Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 at -48 kg and silver Paris 2024 at -52 kg; four European titles, four Masters golds, coached by Driton Kuka.
Dixie Carter (wrestling)
Dixie Carter (born 1964, Dallas) is the former president and chairman of TNA/Impact Wrestling (2003-2017), who brought in her family's Panda Energy as majority owner, led TNA's Spike TV peak and decline, and sold to Anthem in 2017.