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Ferenc Kocsis
Ferenc Kocsis, Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1953 in Budapest, nicknamed Csikó; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold at 74 kg, 1979 world champion, four-time European champion; later coached Olympic champions Farkas and Majoros.
Fernand Jourdant
Fernand Louis Jourdant (1903-1956), French épée fencer from Flers; Olympic team épée gold at Los Angeles 1932 with France; silver at 1927 Vichy and 1931 Vienna; also 1932 Olympic fencing jury member.
Fernando Atzori
Fernando Atzori (1942–2020), Italian flyweight boxer, Olympic gold medalist at Tokyo 1964 and European professional flyweight champion 1967–1972 and 1973; retired 1975 with 44 wins, 6 losses, 2 draws.
Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas, "Ferocious" (born 1977, Oxnard, California), American boxer, 1996 Olympian, IBF and WBA light-middleweight champion, youngest 154-pound titleholder at 21; lost to Trinidad, De La Hoya, Mosley; 2020 Nevada Boxing Hall of Famer.
Feryal Ashraf
Feryal Ashraf (فريال أشرف), born 1999 in Cairo, Egyptian karateka; won women's kumite +61 kg gold at Tokyo 2020, the first Olympic gold by an Egyptian woman, and Mediterranean Games gold in 2022 and 2026.
Fərid Mənsurov
Fərid Mənsurov (Farid Mansurov), born 1982 in Dmanisi, Georgia, is an Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler, 2004 Athens Olympic champion at 66 kg, world champion 2007 (and 2009 by Azerbaijani sources), later national head coach and AWF and NOC vice president.
Fight of the Century
Fight of the Century: Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali I, March 8, 1971, Madison Square Garden; first title fight between two undefeated heavyweights; Frazier won a 15-round unanimous decision with a 15th-round knockdown; $2.5 million purses each.
Fighting (2009 film)
Fighting is a 2009 American action-drama film directed by Dito Montiel, starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard, about a street counterfeiter drawn into New York's underground bare-knuckle fighting circuit.
Fighting Nerds
Fighting Nerds: São Paulo MMA team founded 2014 by Pablo Sucupira and Caio Borralho, motto 'Estudar, Pensar, Lutar, Evoluir', famous for Borralho, Prates, Ruffy, and Jean Silva's UFC run and nerd glasses.
Fighting with My Family
Fighting with My Family (2019) is Stephen Merchant's biographical comedy-drama about WWE wrestler Paige (Saraya Bevis) and her Norwich wrestling family, based on a Channel 4 documentary, starring Florence Pugh and Dwayne Johnson.
Filiberto Azcuy
Filiberto Azcuy, full name Filiberto Azcuy Aguilera, is a Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler, born in 1972, who won Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and a world title in 2001.
Filip Hrgović
Filip Hrgović (Filip Hrgović), Croatian heavyweight boxer born 1992 in Zagreb, Olympic bronze medalist 2016 and IBF heavyweight world champion after stopping Moses Itauma in August 2026; record 21-1 with 16 knockouts.
Filipino martial arts
Filipino martial arts (arnis, eskrima, kali) are the Philippines' indigenous weapon-based fighting systems using sticks, blades, and empty hands; declared the national martial art and sport by Republic Act 9850 in 2009.
Finn Bálor
Finn Bálor (Fergal Devitt, born 1981, Bray, Ireland), Irish WWE wrestler; formerly Prince Devitt of NJPW, Bullet Club co-founder; first-ever Universal Champion at SummerSlam 2016, two-time NXT Champion, WWE Grand Slam Champion.
Fiorenzo Marini
Fiorenzo Marini (1914–1991), Italian épée fencer with CS Torino; won Olympic team épée silver at London 1948 and gold at Rome 1960, plus world gold (1950), silver (1951), and individual bronze (1953).
Firas Katoussi
Firas Katoussi (فراس القطوسي), born 1995 in Tunis, is a Tunisian taekwondo athlete, Olympic champion in men's -80kg at Paris 2024 and 2022 world bronze medallist at -74kg.
Fist of Legend (精武英雄)
Fist of Legend (精武英雄) is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Gordon Chan and starring Jet Li as Chen Zhen, a Jingwu student avenging his master in 1914 Shanghai.
Fit Finlay
Fit Finlay (Dave Finlay), Northern Irish professional wrestler and WWE Performance Center coach from Belfast, aka the Belfast Bruiser. WCW TV and Hardcore Champion, 2006 WWE US Champion, and the trainer behind WWE's women's division revival.
Five Ancestors
Five Ancestors Fist (五祖拳, Wuzuquan; Hokkien Goh/Ngo Cho Kun) is a Southern Shaolin martial art from Quanzhou, Fujian, fusing Da Mo, Luohan, Taizu, White Crane, and Monkey traditions; a 2008 Chinese national intangible cultural heritage spread across Southeast Asia.
Flora Pili
Flora Pili (born 1997, Saint-Avold, France) is a French super lightweight boxer, French, EBU European, WBO International and IBO champion, 12-0 before losing a 2026 undisputed-title fight to Katie Taylor.
Florida Championship Wrestling
Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), WWE's Tampa-based developmental promotion founded by Steve Keirn in June 2007, ran until August 2012 when it was rebranded as NXT; alumni include Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Floyd Mayweather) is a celebrated American professional boxer, born in 1977 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who accumulated a perfect 50-0 win-loss record.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, the 2017 Las Vegas crossover boxing match; Mayweather won by 10th-round TKO, retiring 50-0, with 4.3 million PPV buys, a $55.4 million gate, and roughly $275M/$85M fighter earnings.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul: June 6, 2021 eight-round exhibition boxing match at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami; no judges, no official winner, no knockout; about 1 million Showtime PPV buys, over $50 million.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, the 2015 "Fight of the Century" at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas: Mayweather won a unanimous decision, and the bout set the pay-per-view record with 4.4 million buys.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao II
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao II: the agreed 2026 professional welterweight rematch between Floyd Mayweather Jr. (50-0) and Manny Pacquiao (62-8-3), announced by Netflix for Las Vegas after their record $425 million, 4.4-million-buy 2015 fight.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana: two 2014 Las Vegas welterweight fights. Mayweather won a majority decision on May 3 and the September 13 rematch; Maidana landed a record 221 punches.
Floyd Mayweather Sr.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., American former welterweight contender and boxing trainer, father of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Taught his son the shoulder roll, trained Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton, served five years in prison for cocaine trafficking from 1993.
Floyd Patterson
Floyd Patterson, American boxer (1935–2006), 1952 Olympic middleweight gold medalist, youngest world heavyweight champion at 21 in 1956, and first fighter to regain the heavyweight title, beating Ingemar Johansson in 1960.
Floyd Schofield
Floyd Schofield Jr., "Kid Austin" (born 2002), American lightweight boxer from Austin, Texas; 20-0 (13 KOs), won the vacant WBA lightweight title by decision over Lucas Bahdi on October 10, 2026, after a first-round KO of Tevin Farmer.