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Gabriel Rosado

Gabriel Rosado, "King" Gabriel Rosado, American boxer from Philadelphia; super welterweight to super middleweight contender and gatekeeper; retired 27-17-1, 2 NC (16 KOs), famous for knocking out Bektemir Melikuziev in 2021.

Gabriel, Comte de la Falaise

Gabriel, Comte de la Falaise (Louis Verrant Gabriel Le Bailly de la Falaise, known as Georges de la Falaise, 1866–1910), French count and cavalry officer, fencer; Olympic sabre champion 1900, double épée gold at 1906 Intercalated Games, also refereed in 1900.

Gabriela Fundora

Gabriela Fundora, born Gabriela Diana Fundora in 2002, is an American boxer from Coachella, California, nicknamed "Sweet Poison," who became the youngest undisputed flyweight world champion in November 2024.

Gadzhi Rabadanov

Gadzhi Rabadanov, Dagestani lightweight MMA fighter, Team Nurmagomedov, 2024 PFL Lightweight Champion; combat sambo WMMAA world champion (2015), former EFC and Bellator standout, record 28-5-2.

Gael Touya

Gaël Touya (Gaël Roger Touya), born 1973, French sabre fencer, 2004 Athens Olympic team gold with brother Damien and Julien Pillet, 1997 world team champion, later a fencing coach and PE teacher.

Gail Kim

Gail Kim, born 1976 in Toronto, is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, also known as La Felina, who won the WWE Women's Championship in her 2003 RAW debut, was TNA's first Knockouts Champion, and became the first female TNA/Impact Hall of Fame inductee in 2016.

Galal Yafai

Galal Yafai, Birmingham flyweight boxer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist (beat Carlo Paalam 4-1), Rio 2016 Olympian, 2018 Commonwealth champion, brother of Kal and Gamal Yafai, later WBC interim flyweight champion with Matchroom.

Galina Gorokhova

Galina Gorokhova (Галина Горохова), born in Moscow in 1938, is a Soviet and Russian foil fencer who won three Olympic golds and nine world titles, then coached Soviet fencing.

Gama Singh

Gama Singh (Gadowar Singh Sahota, ਗਦੋਵਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਹੋਤਾ), also Great Gama, born 1954, is an Indian-Canadian retired professional wrestler, Karachi Vice heel leader in Stampede Wrestling, six-time British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight champion, and Impact Wrestling Desi Hit Squad manager.

Game Changer Wrestling

Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), formerly Jersey Championship Wrestling, is a hardcore and deathmatch independent wrestling promotion in Howell, New Jersey, founded in 1999 by Ricky Otazu, rebranded in 2015 under Brett Lauderdale, known for Spring Break and The Wrld on GCW.

Game of Death (死亡的游戏)

Game of Death (死亡遊戲) is Bruce Lee's unfinished 1972 martial arts film, completed in 1978 by Robert Clouse with stand-ins after Lee's 1973 death; only about 11 minutes of Lee's footage were used, and the yellow-jumpsuit pagoda climax became iconic.

Garry Tonon

Garry "The Lion Killer" Tonon, American submission grappler and ONE Championship MMA fighter born 1991 in New Jersey; five-time EBI champion, IBJJF No-Gi world champion, Danaher Death Squad leg-lock specialist.

Gary Goodridge

Gary "Big Daddy" Goodridge is a Canadian former MMA fighter and kickboxer, born in Trinidad and Tobago, who won IVC 1 and the 2005 K-1 Hawaii Grand Prix.

Gary Russell Jr.

Gary Russell Jr. is an American professional boxer who held the WBC featherweight title from 2015 to 2022, the longest reigning male world champion of his time.

Gaston Alibert

Gaston Alibert (Gaston Jules Louis Antoine Alibert), French épée fencer (1878-1917), Salle Baudry Paris; 7th at Paris 1900, double gold medalist in individual and team épée at London 1908, first French épée Olympic champion.

Gaston Salmon

Gaston Salmon (Gaston Joseph Clément Marie Salmon, 1878–1918) was a Belgian fencer who won gold in the men's team épée at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

Gauthier Grumier

Gauthier Grumier, born 1984 in Nevers, is a French left-handed épée fencer, Rio 2016 Olympic team champion and individual bronze medallist, five-time world team champion, later French men's épée national coach.

Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov

Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (Гайдарбек Гайдарбеков), Russian amateur boxer born 1976 in Kaspiysk, Dagestan; middleweight gold at Athens 2004 (beating Gennadiy Golovkin) and silver at Sydney 2000.

Gazanfer Bilge

Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish freestyle wrestler (born Karamürsel 1923 or 1924, died Istanbul 2008), 1948 London Olympic featherweight gold medalist and 1946 European 62 kg champion, later a bus company founder and philanthropist.

Geeta Phogat (गीता फोगाट)

Geeta Phogat (गीता फोगाट) is an Indian freestyle wrestler from Balali, Haryana: first Indian woman to win a Commonwealth Games wrestling gold (2010, 55 kg) and first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics (London 2012).

Gegard Mousasi

Gegard Mousasi, "The Dreamcatcher," Iranian-born Dutch middleweight MMA fighter (49-9-2); former DREAM, Strikeforce, Cage Warriors, and two-time Bellator champion; ex-UFC contender later suing PFL-Bellator for $15 million.

Gene Hamori

Gene Hamori (Jenő Hámori, 1933–2025), Hungarian-born sabre fencer, 1956 Melbourne Olympic team gold for Hungary, defected to the US, fenced for America at Tokyo 1964, later a physical chemistry professor at Tulane.

Gene LeBell

Gene LeBell (1932-2022), "Judo" Gene LeBell, American judo champion, professional wrestler, and Hollywood stuntman; won 1954-1955 AAU national judo titles, beat boxer Milo Savage in 1963, and worked on thousands of film and TV projects.

Gene Okerlund

Gene Okerlund ("Mean Gene", Eugene Arthur Okerlund, 1942–2019) was an American wrestling announcer and backstage interviewer for AWA, WWF/WWE, and WCW; WWE Hall of Fame inductee in 2006.

Gene Snitsky

Gene Snitsky, American retired pro wrestler and actor, WWE Raw/ECW monster heel 2004-2008, known for the Kane-Lita miscarriage storyline, "it wasn't my fault", and the baby-doll punt; retired 2018.

Gene Tunney

Gene Tunney (James Joseph Tunney, 1897-1978), American heavyweight boxing champion 1926-1928, "The Fighting Marine," who beat Jack Dempsey twice, including the 1927 Long Count Fight, and retired 65-1-1.

Gennady Golovkin (Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин)

Gennady Golovkin (Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин), "GGG", Kazakhstani middleweight boxer born 1982 in Karaganda; 2004 Olympic silver, 2003 world amateur champion, pro record 42-2-1 with 37 KOs, 20 straight title defenses, Canelo trilogy, Hall of Fame 2026, World Boxing president.

Gennady Korban

Gennady Korban (Геннадий Владимирович Корбан), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler born 1949 in Engels; 1980 Moscow Olympic middleweight (≤82 kg) champion, World Champion 1979 and 1981, European Champion 1980-81; later coached and emigrated to Germany.

Gennady Shatkov

Gennady Shatkov (Геннадий Иванович Шатков), Soviet boxer, 1956 Olympic middleweight champion from Melbourne, twice European and three-time Soviet champion, later a legal scholar; lost to Cassius Clay at Rome 1960.

Geno Petriashvili

Geno Petriashvili (გენო პეტრიაშვილი), Georgian freestyle wrestler born 1994 in Gori, 125 kg super-heavyweight; three-time world champion (2017-2019) with Olympic bronze 2016, silver 2020, and gold 2024.