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Liz Carmouche

Liz "Girl-Rilla" Carmouche (born 1984) is an American PFL women's flyweight MMA fighter, 26-8, ex-Marine, first woman to fight in the UFC (UFC 157 vs Rousey), former Bellator flyweight champion, 2025 PFL tournament winner.

Lizzy Rain

Lizzy Rain, real name Rayne Leat (born 1998, London), also known as Rayne Leverkusen, is an English WWE NXT wrestler and niece of Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr; former PROGRESS Women's Champion.

LJ Cleary

LJ Cleary (Lee Joseph Cleary, born 1999) is an Irish professional wrestler from Dublin, also known as Lucha Lee. OTT and Pro Wrestling NOAH standout, More Than Hype member, GLG faction alumnus, and School of Irish Wrestling coach.

Lone'er Kavanagh

Lone'er Kavanagh, English UFC flyweight (10-2 pro, 3-2 UFC, ranked #6), London-born kickboxer at Great Britain Top Team; beat Brandon Moreno in 2026, lost to Royval, faces Temirov at UFC 333.

Lorenz Larkin

Lorenz "The Monsoon" Larkin (born 1986) is an American MMA welterweight from Riverside, California, with a 27-8-0, 2 NC record across Strikeforce, UFC (5-5), Bellator, PFL, and Karate Combat, known for spinning kicks and a win over Robbie Lawler.

Lorenzo Hunt

Lorenzo "The Juggernaut" Hunt (born 1982) is an American bare-knuckle boxer in BKFC, its first three-division champion (light heavyweight, cruiserweight, ironweight), with a 14-2 bare-knuckle record and a 3-5 MMA record. Not the UFC's Mark Hunt.

Los Guerreros

Los Guerreros: WWE SmackDown tag team of Eddie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero Jr. (2002-2004), two-time WWE Tag Team Champions famous for the lie, cheat, and steal gimmick.

Los Ingobernables de Japon

Los Ingobernables de Japon (L.I.J., ロス・インゴベルナブレス・デ・ハポン) was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling stable (2015–2025) founded by Tetsuya Naito as an offshoot of CMLL's Los Ingobernables, with EVIL, BUSHI, SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi, Titan, and Yota Tsuji.

Losene Keita

Losene "Black Panther" Keita (born 1997, Conakry, Guinea) is a Belgian UFC featherweight and former Oktagon MMA two-division champion; 17-2 record, 11 KO wins, missed weight for his cancelled 2025 UFC Paris debut.

Lothar Metz

Lothar Metz (1939-2021), East German Greco-Roman wrestler, won Olympic gold at Mexico 1968, silver at Rome 1960, and bronze at Tokyo 1964 in middleweight, competing at four Games.

Lou Albano

"Captain" Lou Albano (Louis Vincent Albano, 1933–2009) was an American pro wrestling manager and wrestler, WWE Hall of Famer (1996), who guided 15 teams to tag team gold and starred in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" video and as Mario on TV.

Lou Banach

Lou Banach is an American retired freestyle wrestler who won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He later served in the U.S. Army and worked in Wisconsin banking.

Lou Thesz

Lou Thesz (Aloysius Martin Thesz, 1916–2002) was an American professional wrestler who held the NWA world heavyweight championship over ten years, the longest in NWA history.

Louis Smolka

Louis Smolka, known as "Da Last Samurai," is an American mixed martial artist from Hawaii who competed in the UFC at flyweight and bantamweight from 2014 to 2022.

Lovlina Borgohain

Lovlina Borgohain (born 1997, Guwahati) is an Indian boxer from Assam, Tokyo 2020 Olympic welterweight bronze medalist, 2026 Commonwealth Games silver and 2026 Asian Games 75kg gold winner, second Indian woman after Mary Kom with Asian boxing gold.

Low Ki

Low Ki, born 1979 in Brooklyn, also known as Senshi and Kaval, is an American professional wrestler, first ROH Champion (2002), TNA X Division and IWGP Junior Heavyweight titleholder known for a stiff, combat-sport style.

Luana Santos

Luana Santos (Luana do Valle Lopes Gonzales Santos, born 2000) is a Brazilian UFC women's bantamweight fighter, 11-2 pro, 6-1 in the UFC, former national judo team athlete known for judo throws and the kesa gatame leg americana.

Lucas Browne

Lucas Browne, "Big Daddy" (born 1979, Auburn NSW), Australian heavyweight boxer, former WBA Regular heavyweight champion (beat Ruslan Chagaev 2016, stripped for clenbuterol) and first Australian Commonwealth heavyweight champion since 1892.

Lucas Matthysse

Lucas Matthysse (La Máquina), Argentine boxer born 1982 in Trelew, Chubut; WBA welterweight champion 2018, heavy puncher with 36 KOs; lost title to Manny Pacquiao by TKO7 in 2018 and retired.

Lucha libre

Lucha libre, Mexican professional wrestling, also called lucha mexicana: masked, high-flying scripted sport with técnicos vs rudos, two-of-three-falls matches, Mexico City heritage status since 2018, and WWE's 2025 acquisition of AAA.

Lucha Libre AAA (TV program)

Lucha Libre AAA, the weekly TV program of Mexico's AAA promotion, airing since 1992 on Televisa and now Saturdays on Fox LATAM and WWE YouTube after WWE's April 2025 acquisition.

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, also known as AAA, is a Mexican professional wrestling promotion founded in 1992 by Antonio Peña and owned by WWE since 2025.

Lucha Underground

Lucha Underground: American wrestling TV series and promotion (2014-2018) on El Rey Network, created by Mark Burnett and Robert Rodriguez; 4 seasons, 127 episodes, cinematic season-based format, Temple venue, and titles including the Lucha Underground Championship.

Luchasaurus

Luchasaurus (Austin Matelson, also Killswitch, Judas Devlin, Vibora), American masked dinosaur-gimmick wrestler; AEW World Tag Team and TNT Champion, formerly WWE NXT developmental, sidelined by pneumonia and 2026 surgeries.

Lucia Rijker

Lucia Rijker (Lucia Frederica Rijker, born 1967, Amsterdam) is a Dutch former undefeated professional boxer (17-0, 14 KOs), four-time kickboxing world champion, Million Dollar Baby actress, and 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.

Lucia Szabová

Lucia Szabová (Silent Killer, Queen Bee), Slovak MMA fighter born 1997 in Bratislava; undefeated 12-0, first female double champion of OKTAGON (bantamweight and flyweight), leaving for a UFC debut against Tainara Lisboa on 31 October 2026.

Lucie Decosse

Lucie Decosse, French judoka (born 1981, Chaumont), Olympic champion -70 kg London 2012, silver Beijing 2008, three-time world champion (2005, 2010, 2011), four-time European champion; French women's head coach since 2025.

Lucie Prost

Lucie Prost (1905–1970), French foil fencer; reached the women's individual foil semi-finals at the 1924 Paris and 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; also a namesake in 1920s French women's athletics.

Lucien Merignac

Lucien Mérignac (Louis Lucien Mérignac, 1873–1941), French fencing master and 1900 Paris Olympic gold medalist in masters foil, beating Alphonse Kirchhoffer in a barrage; son of Louis Mérignac.

Ludwig Kaiser

Ludwig Kaiser, born Marcel Barthel in 1990, is a German professional wrestler in WWE, a two-time NXT Tag Team Champion and the reigning AAA Mega Champion.