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Joe Coffey (wrestler)
Joe Coffey (Joseph Coffey, b. May 22, 1988), Scottish heavyweight wrestler, two-time ICW champion, Gallus leader with Mark Coffey and Wolfgang in WWE NXT UK; record 497-day NXT UK Tag Team reign; released May 2025, now in MLW.
Joe Fournier
Joe Fournier (Jocelyn Faisal Jules Fournier), British nightclub owner and light-heavyweight boxer, 'The Billionaire'. 9-0 (9 KOs) pro record, doping ban, WBA International title removed from record, exhibition losses to David Haye and an overturned elbow KO by KSI in 2023.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier (1944-2011), "Smokin' Joe", American heavyweight boxer, undisputed champion 1970-73, Tokyo 1964 Olympic gold medalist, first man to beat Muhammad Ali (1971), record 32-4-1, lost Thrilla in Manila 1975.
Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman
Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, the Sunshine Showdown of January 22, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica: undefeated champion Frazier (29-0) lost the WBA, WBC and Ring heavyweight titles when 37-0 challenger Foreman knocked him down six times for a second-round TKO.
Joe Gacy
Joe Gacy is the ring name of Joseph Sawyer (born 1987), an American wrestler, three-time CZW World Heavyweight Champion, former WWE NXT star and Wyatt Sicks member, now GCW World Champion.
Joe Hendry
Joe Hendry, Scottish WWE wrestler from Edinburgh, judo black belt and amateur wrestling champion, former TNA World Champion and NXT Champion, famous for the viral 'Say his name and he appears' theme song and his WrestleMania 41 match with Randy Orton.
Joe Joyce (boxer)
Joe Joyce (Joseph Obey Joyce, born 1985), "The Juggernaut", English heavyweight boxer; 2016 Olympic super-heavyweight silver medallist, former WBO interim heavyweight champion; beat Dubois and Parker, lost twice to Zhilei Zhang; record 16-5, 15 KOs.
Joe Lauzon
Joe Lauzon is an American mixed martial artist who competed as a lightweight in the UFC from 2006 to 2019. He signed with BKFC in 2026.
Joe Lewis (martial artist)
Joe Lewis (Joseph Henry Lewis, 1944–2012) was an American kickboxer and full contact karate fighter who won the first professional full-contact karate titles in the United States.
Joe Louis
Joe Louis (Joseph Louis Barrow, 1914-1981), the Brown Bomber, American heavyweight boxing champion 1937-1949 with a record 25 title defenses; lost to Max Schmeling in 1936, avenged him with a 1938 first-round knockout.
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling: two 1936 and 1938 Yankee Stadium heavyweight fights. Schmeling knocked Louis out in 12 rounds in 1936; Louis avenged it with a 2:04 first-round KO in 1938, a democracy-versus-Nazism symbol.
Joe Louis vs. Rocky Marciano
Joe Louis vs. Rocky Marciano, October 26, 1951, Madison Square Garden: the 27-year-old undefeated Marciano knocked out the 37-year-old former champion Louis in eight rounds, ending Louis's career and launching Marciano's title run.
Joe Pyfer
Joe Pyfer, "Bodybagz", American UFC middleweight from Vineland, New Jersey; 16-3 record, 7-1 in UFC, boxing-based knockout artist, ranked #6 after stopping Israel Adesanya in 2026.
Joe Riggs
Joe Riggs (Joseph Jonathan Riggs, born 1982, nicknamed "Diesel") is an American mixed martial artist who fought in the UFC and Strikeforce from welterweight to heavyweight.
Joe Schilling
Joe Schilling (b. 1984, Dayton, Ohio), "Stitch 'Em Up", American kickboxer and MMA fighter; WBC Muay Thai champion, GLORY 10 tournament winner, Bellator KO of Melvin Manhoef 2014, released by Bellator 2020.
Joe Smith Jr.
Joe Smith Jr. (born 1989) is a retired American light heavyweight boxer from Long Island, nicknamed The Beast and The Common Man, former WBO world champion who knocked Bernard Hopkins out of the ring and worked as a Local 66 union laborer.
Joel Gonzalez
Joel Gonzalez (Joel González Bonilla), Spanish taekwondo athlete born 1989 in Figueras; Olympic flyweight gold at London 2012 and featherweight bronze at Rio 2016; two-time world and European champion; retired 2021.
Joey Janela
Joey Janela (Joseph Janela) is an American professional wrestler known as the "Bad Boy" of Game Changer Wrestling and organizer of Joey Janela's Spring Break.
Joey Mercury
Joey Mercury (Adam Birch, also Joey Matthews), American wrestler born 1979; MNM tag team with Johnny Nitro and Melina, 3x WWE Tag Team Champion, later WWE producer and J&J Security member.
Joey Ryan (wrestler)
Joey Ryan (Joseph Ryan Meehan, b. 1979), American indie wrestler, PWG co-founder, PWG World and NWA tag champion, famous for the YouPorn Plex crotch-flip spot; career ended by June 2020 #SpeakingOut allegations and Impact termination.
Johan Ghazali
Johan "Jojo" Ghazali (Muhammad Johan Ghazali Zulfikar, born 2006), Malaysian-American ONE Championship flyweight Muay Thai fighter from Rentap Muay Thai Gym; youngest male ONE athlete at debut, US$100,000 contract, 8-5 ONE record with 75% finish rate.
Johan Harmenberg
Johan Harmenberg (Johan Georg Harmenberg, born Åkerman), Swedish épée fencer born 1954 in Stockholm; 1980 Moscow Olympic individual épée gold, the first individual fencing gold by a Swede, 1977 world champion, later viral immunology researcher and author of Epee 2.0.
Johan Richthoff
Johan Richthoff (Johan Cornelius Richthoff, "Snövit"), Swedish heavyweight freestyle wrestler (1898–1983) from Limhamn; Olympic gold 1928 and 1932, first heavyweight to defend an Olympic wrestling title, European champion 1929–1930, later undefeated professional.
Johann Duhaupas
Johann "Reptile" Duhaupas, French heavyweight boxer born 1981 in Abbeville, 39-7 (26 KOs), French and EU champion, who lasted 11 rounds against Deontay Wilder for the WBC title in 2015 and beat Robert Helenius.
Johannes Kotkas
Johannes Kotkas (Johannes Kotkas), Estonian-born Soviet Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler (1915–1998); Olympic gold Helsinki 1952, European champion 1938, 1939, 1947, 1953 world silver.
Johannes Liechtenauer
Johannes Liechtenauer (Hans Lichtenauer, Lichtnawer), 14th-century German fencing master, author of the cryptic Zettel verses founding the Kunst des Fechtens; no writings of his survive, only 1389-1612 glosses.
John Brzenk
John Brzenk (born 1964) is an American arm wrestler from Utah, widely called the greatest of all time by Guinness World Records, with 500+ titles, mastery of hook, top roll, and press, and the 1986 Over the Top truck win.
John Buchanan
John Buchanan is the name of several British and Australian sports figures, including an Olympic judoka, a 1908 Olympic gold-medal sailor, and Australia's record-setting cricket coach.
John Cena
John Cena (born 1977, West Newbury, Massachusetts) is a retired WWE wrestler and actor, record 17-time world champion, Make-A-Wish granter of 600+ wishes, and star of Peacemaker and F9.
John Danaher (martial artist)
John Danaher (born 1967) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Renzo Gracie and influential grappling coach who moved from the Renzo Gracie Academy to Austin, Texas.