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Kazuki Iimura

Kazuki Iimura (飯村 一輝), Japanese foil fencer born 2003 in Kyoto; Paris 2024 Olympic team foil gold champion and 2023 Milan world team champion; Keio University student, NTT athlete.

Kazushi Sakuraba (桜庭 和志)

Kazushi Sakuraba (桜庭 和志), "The Gracie Hunter," Japanese catch wrestler and ex-UWFi pro wrestler who beat four Gracies in PRIDE, won UFC Japan 1997, and retired 26-17-1; 2017 UFC Hall of Fame Pioneer.

Kazuyasu Minobe

Kazuyasu Minobe (見延 和靖), born 1987 in Echizen, Fukui, is a Japanese left-handed épée fencer; Tokyo 2020 team gold (Japan's first Olympic fencing gold), Paris 2024 team silver, 2022 world individual silver.

KC Navarro

KC Navarro (Christian Michael Navarro, born 1999), also Kid Christian, is an American high-flyer wrestler signed to TNA, formerly of Fir$t Cla$$ with AJ Francis, MLW, and AEW appearances.

Keanu Carver

Keanu Carver, ring name of Kevin Isaiah Robertson (born 1998, Silver Spring, Maryland), is an American wrestler and former Temple football defensive tackle who competed in WWE NXT and Evolve from 2023 until his reported October 2026 departure.

Keiji Suzuki

Keiji Suzuki (鈴木桂治), Japanese judoka born 1980 in Ibaraki; 2004 Athens Olympic +100 kg gold medalist, 2003 and 2005 world champion, later coach of Japan's men's national judo team and 7th dan.

Keith Jardine

Keith Jardine, nicknamed "The Dean of Mean", is an American mixed martial artist who competed in the UFC from 2005 to 2010, beating Forrest Griffin and Chuck Liddell.

Keith Lee (wrestler)

Keith Lee, American professional wrestler from Wichita Falls, Texas; former NXT North American and NXT Champion, AEW World Tag Team Champion with Swerve Strickland; "Limitless" big man; inactive since December 2023.

Keith Thurman

Keith Thurman, "One Time" (born 1988, Clearwater, Florida), American welterweight boxer, 31-2 with 23 KOs, former unified WBA/WBC 147-pound champion who beat Porter and Garcia, lost a 2019 split decision to Manny Pacquiao, and later lost to Sebastian Fundora at 154 pounds.

Kelani Jordan

Kelani Jordan, real name Lea Simone Mitchell (born 1998), American WWE NXT wrestler and former Michigan State gymnast; first-ever NXT Women's North American Champion, former TNA Knockouts World Champion, reigning NXT Women's Champion.

Kell Brook

Kell Brook (Ezekiel Brinsley Brook), Sheffield boxer, IBF welterweight champion 2014-2017, 40-3 record, lost to Golovkin, Spence, Crawford, beat Khan in 2022, retired May 2022, comeback planned February 2026.

Kellie Harrington

Kellie Anne Harrington, Irish amateur boxer born 1989 in Dublin, women's lightweight (60 kg) Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, first Irish woman with back-to-back Olympic golds.

Kellie Maloney

Kellie Maloney (born Frank Maloney, 1953) is an English boxing manager and promoter who guided Lennox Lewis to the world heavyweight title, came out as a transgender woman in 2014, and returned to promoting in 2015.

Kelly Kelly

Kelly Kelly (Barbie Blank, b. 1987), American model and former WWE wrestler. Debuted on ECW in 2006, won the Divas Championship in 2011 and the 24/7 Championship in 2019; left WWE in 2012.

Kelly Pavlik

Kelly 'The Ghost' Pavlik, born 1982 in Youngstown, Ohio, is a retired American middleweight boxer, 40-2 (34 KOs), who unified the WBC and WBO titles by TKO7 over Jermain Taylor in 2007 and lost them to Sergio Martinez in 2010.

Kelpo Gröndahl

Kelpo Olavi Gröndahl (1920–1994), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler: Olympic silver London 1948 and gold in the 87 kg light-heavyweight class at Helsinki 1952, later SKDL member of the Finnish Parliament 1962–1970 and harbormaster of Pori.

Kelvin Gastelum

Kelvin Gastelum, American UFC middleweight born 1991 in San Jose, raised in Yuma, Arizona; TUF 17 winner, interim title challenger vs Adesanya, known for weight misses and durable southpaw boxing.

Ken Anderson (wrestler)

Ken Anderson (Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Anderson), born 1976, American professional wrestler; WWE United States Champion, 2007 Money in the Bank winner, two-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion; known for self-announcing ring intros; now runs a Minneapolis wrestling school.

Ken Norton

Ken Norton (Kenneth Howard Norton Sr., 1943-2013), American heavyweight boxer, "Black Hercules" and "Jaw Breaker," who beat Muhammad Ali in 1973 breaking his jaw, held the WBC title in 1978 without winning a title fight, and lost a classic split decision to Larry Holmes.

Ken Patera

Ken Patera (born 1942) is an American retired professional wrestler and former Olympic weightlifter from Portland, Oregon, who held the WWF Intercontinental Championship in 1980.

Ken Shamrock

Ken Shamrock (born Ken Kilpatrick, 1964), also Wayne Shamrock in Japan, American MMA fighter and pro wrestler; first King of Pancrase 1994, two-time UFC Superfight champion, UFC Hall of Famer 2003, and WWF Intercontinental Champion and 1998 King of the Ring.

Kendal Grey

Kendal Grey (Peyton Prussin, born 2001) is an American WWE NXT wrestler, three-time NAIA champion for Life University, Evolve Women's Champion, 2025 Iron Survivor winner, and 2026 NXT Women's Champion.

Kendall Cross

Kendall Duane Cross, American freestyle wrestler, 1989 NCAA champion for Oklahoma State and 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medalist at 57 kg, beating Guivi Sissaouri 5-3; sixth at Barcelona 1992; later coach and NYC training center operator.

Kendall Windham

Kendall Windham (Kendall Wayne Windham, born 1967, Sweetwater, Texas), American retired professional wrestler, son of Blackjack Mulligan, brother of Barry Windham; WCW World Tag Team Champion 1999 and West Texas Rednecks member.

Kendo (剣道)

Kendo (剣道), the Japanese "Way of the sword", is a martial art of shinai strikes in armor, evolved from samurai kenjutsu, renamed kendo in 1912, governed by the AJKF and FIK.

Kenichiro Fumita

Kenichiro Fumita is a Japanese wrestler who won the Olympic gold at the Paris 2024 Games, having previously secured world titles in 2017 and 2019.

Kenjutsu (剣術)

Kenjutsu (剣術) is classical Japanese swordsmanship, the samurai art of combat with the katana, transmitted through koryu schools via two-person kata with bokken; distinct from iai (the draw) and the historical origin of modern kendo.

Kennedy Blades

Kennedy Alexis Blades (born 2003, Chicago) is an American freestyle wrestler, 2024 Paris Olympic silver medalist at 76 kg and 2025 world bronze medalist at 68 kg, now wrestling for Iowa.

Kenny Dykstra

Kenny Dykstra is the ring name of American professional wrestler Kenn Doane, best known as Kenny of WWE's five-man Spirit Squad cheerleader stable in 2006.

Kenny Florian

Kenny Florian, "KenFlo" (born 1976), American retired UFC mixed martial artist and BJJ black belt; TUF 1 finalist, first UFC fighter in four weight classes, three title fights lost, later a leading MMA commentator.