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Giorgio Bocchino
Giorgio Bocchino (1913-1995), Italian foil fencer from Firenze; won team foil gold and individual foil bronze at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, plus four European and two world team titles.
Giorgio Chiavacci
Giorgio Chiavacci (1899-1969), Italian fencer from Cecina, Livorno, C.S. Fides; won team foil gold at Amsterdam 1928, European foil titles 1926 and 1931, missed Los Angeles 1932 through conjunctivitis.
Giorgio Pessina
Giorgio Pessina (1902-1977), Italian foil fencer from Rome; Olympic team foil gold 1928 Amsterdam, silver 1932 Los Angeles, fourth 1924; later federation head coach and co-author with Ugo Pignotti of the standard Italian texts Il fioretto and La sciabola.
Giorgio Petrosyan
Giorgio Petrosyan, "The Doctor" (Armenian-Italian kickboxer, born 1985), southpaw counter-striker; K-1 World MAX 2009-2010, GLORY 2012, ONE GP 2019; retired November 2025 at 109-3-2 (2 NC, 43 KOs).
Giorgio Santelli
Giorgio Santelli (Santelli György), 1897–1985, Hungarian-born Italian sabre fencer; 1920 Olympic team sabre gold for Italy, then US Olympic fencing coach 1928–1952 and New York salle founder.
Giovanna Trillini
Giovanna Trillini (born 1970, Jesi) is an Italian foil fencer with 4 Olympic golds, 1 silver, 3 bronze (8 total, 1992-2008), double 1992 champion, world champion 1991 and 1997, now a coach at Club Scherma Jesi.
Giovanni Canova
Giovanni Canova (1880-1960), Italian épée fencer of CS Torino; Olympic team épée gold at Antwerp 1920 (preliminary rounds only) and bronze at Paris 1924 as captain; individual épée joint 7th in 1920; 1928 jury president.
Giovanni Gozzi
Giovanni Gozzi (1902-1976), Italian Greco-Roman wrestler; featherweight gold at Los Angeles 1932 and bantamweight bronze at Amsterdam 1928; also European champion 1927; missed Berlin 1936 through injury.
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi, "Flash" (1967-2009), Italian boxer; Seoul 1988 Olympic featherweight gold medalist and two-division WBO world champion (lightweight 1992-94, light welterweight 1996-98); died in a car crash near Voghera.
Giovanni Scalzo
Giovanni Scalzo, Italian sabre fencer born 1959 in Messina; four Olympian (1980–1992) with 1 gold (1984 team), 1 silver (1980 team), 2 bronze (1988 individual and team), 1983 European champion.
Girlfight
Girlfight (2000) is Karyn Kusama's debut indie drama starring Michelle Rodriguez as Brooklyn teen boxer Diana Guzman; it won Sundance's Grand Jury and Directing awards and Cannes' Award of Youth.
Giulia (ジュリア) (wrestler)
Giulia, also known as Eimi Matsudo, is a Japanese professional wrestler born in London who starred in STARDOM before joining WWE in 2024 and winning the NXT Women's Championship.
Giulia Rizzi
Giulia Rizzi, born 1989 in Udine, is an Italian right-handed épée fencer, Olympic team champion at Paris 2024 and world team champion in 2026, with European team gold in 2024.
Giulio Basletta
Giulio Basletta (1890-1975) was an Italian épée fencer from Vigevano who won team épée bronze at Paris 1924 and gold at Amsterdam 1928, was Italian individual champion in 1922, and led the Italian Fencing Federation 1940-1943.
Giulio Gaudini
Giulio Gaudini (1904-1948), Italian fencer from Rome, dominant foil and sabre fencer of the 1920s-1930s; nine Olympic medals including individual foil gold at Berlin 1936, plus 17 world championship medals.
Giulio Sarrocchi
Giulio Sarrocchi was an Italian sabre specialist from Roma, winning the men's team gold at Paris 1924 and silver in Amsterdam 1928.
Giuseppe Delfino
Giuseppe Delfino (1921–1999) was an Italian épée fencer who won four Olympic golds and two silvers from 1952 to 1964, including individual épée gold at Rome 1960, plus six world team titles.
Giuseppe Maddaloni
Giuseppe 'Pino' Maddaloni, born 1976 in Naples, Italian judoka, Olympic gold medalist in -73 kg at Sydney 2000, beating Tiago Camilo by ippon; European champion 1998 and 1999; son of coach Gianni Maddaloni of Scampia's Star Judo Club.
Givi K ' Art ' Ozia
Givi K'art'ozia (Givi Kartozia, გივი კარტოზია), Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler for the USSR; 1956 Olympic middleweight champion, 1960 bronze at light-heavyweight, world champion 1953, 1955, 1958.
Gladiator (1992 film)
Gladiator (1992) is a Rowdy Herrington boxing drama starring James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Brian Dennehy about illegal Chicago fights; a Columbia flop grossing $5.9 million, unrelated to Ridley Scott's 2000 Roman epic of the same name.
Gleison Tibau
Gleison Tibau (Janigleison Herculano Alves), Brazilian MMA fighter from Rio Grande do Norte; 28 UFC appearances 2006-2018, two-year EPO suspension, later PFL and ACA welterweight.
Glen Brand
Glen Brand (Glen Jenson Brand, 1923-2008), American freestyle wrestler and 1948 London Olympics middleweight (79 kg) gold medalist; Iowa State's first Olympic gold medalist, later founder of Brand Hydraulics.
Glima
Glíma, Iceland's national folk wrestling, an upright belt-wrestling style with Lausatök, Brökartök, and Hryggspenna variants, belt-and-thigh harness, 1325 Jonsbok record, and 1912 Stockholm Olympic competitions.
Global Force Wrestling
Global Force Wrestling (GFW), American pro wrestling promotion founded April 7, 2014 by Jeff and Karen Jarrett in Nashville; presented NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9, taped GFW Amped, merged briefly with Impact Wrestling, and closed in 2018.
Global Wars Canada
Global Wars Canada: ROH x Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling event, March 27, 2026, St. Clair College SportsPlex, Windsor, Ontario; 17th Global Wars edition; Good Brothers became first MLP Canadian Tag Team Champions; streamed on TrillerTV.
Glory (kickboxing)
GLORY Kickboxing, founded 2012 by Glory Sports International (Singapore), is the leading professional kickboxing promotion and K-1 successor. Six weight classes, no elbows, limited clinch; Rico Verhoeven's 12-year heavyweight reign; 2026 grand prix tournament format.
Glover Teixeira
Glover Teixeira (born 1979) is a Brazilian former UFC light heavyweight champion who won the title at 42 by submitting Jan Blachowicz at UFC 267, retired in January 2023 with UFC LHW records for finishes and submissions, and returned in 2026 to box Shogun Rua.
Gōjū-ryū (剛柔流)
Gōjū-ryū (剛柔流), hard-soft style, is an Okinawan karate style founded by Miyagi Chōjun, who named it in 1930 from the Bubishi; it descends from Higaonna Kanryō's Naha-te and centers on Sanchin and Tensho kata.
Gökhan Saki
Gökhan Saki (Gokhan Saki), "The Rebel" or "Turkish Tyson", is a Turkish-Dutch kickboxer born 1983 in Schiedam; GLORY light-heavyweight world champion 2014, K-1 Grand Prix 2010 standout, later a brief UFC fighter.
Golden Boy Promotions
Golden Boy Promotions is a Los Angeles-based boxing promoter founded in 2002 by Oscar De La Hoya, a 10-time world champion, and is a major force in American boxing.