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Mario Barrios vs. Ryan Garcia
Mario Barrios vs. Ryan Garcia, also called The Ring: High Stakes, was a WBC welterweight title fight in Las Vegas won by Ryan Garcia by unanimous decision.
Mario Kindelan
Mario Kindelan (Mario César Kindelán Mesa, born 1971, Holguín, Cuba), Cuban amateur boxer, two-time Olympic lightweight champion (2000, 2004) and three-time world champion, later coached British boxers for London 2012.
Mario Pinto
Mario Pinto (Mario Joao Jauad Pinto, born 1998) is an undefeated Portuguese UFC heavyweight from Lisbon fighting out of London, 13-0 with 8 knockouts, former LFL champion, 4-0 in the UFC.
Mario Tullio Montano
Mario Tullio Montano, nicknamed Mariolone, Italian sabre fencer of the Livorno Montano dynasty; Olympic team sabre gold Munich 1972 and silver Montreal 1976; later coach and 1988 Olympic referee.
Mariusz Wach
Mariusz Wach (Mariusz Łukasz Wach, "The Viking"), Polish heavyweight boxer born 1979 in Krakow; 39-14 (20 KOs). Challenged Wladimir Klitschko for the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles in 2012; later faced Fury, Itauma, Povetkin, and Whyte.
Mariya Mazina
Mariya Mazina (Мария Валерьевна Мазина, born 1964, Moscow) is a Russian épée fencer, Olympic team gold medalist at Sydney 2000 and team bronze medalist at Atlanta 1996, with four World Championship medals.
Mark Breland
Mark Anthony Breland, born 1963 in Brooklyn, is an American boxer, 1984 Olympic welterweight gold medalist with a 110-1 amateur record, two-time WBA welterweight champion (1987, 1989-90), later actor and trainer.
Mark Briscoe
Mark Briscoe (Mark Pugh, born 1985) is an AEW and ROH wrestler, half of The Briscoes with late brother Jay; 13-time ROH tag champion, former ROH World and AEW TNT Champion.
Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman (born 1964, Fremont, Ohio), 'The Hammer', NCAA wrestling champion and 1992 Olympian; first UFC heavyweight champion, UFC 10/11 tournament winner, Pride 2000 Grand Prix winner, godfather of ground and pound.
Mark Henry
Mark Henry, "The World's Strongest Man," is an American Olympic weightlifter and WWE wrestler signed March 1996; two-time World Champion, Sexual Chocolate character, later AEW/Busted Open broadcaster.
Mark Huizinga
Mark Huizinga (born 1973, Vlaardingen) is a Dutch judoka, Olympic gold medallist at -90 kg in Sydney 2000 and bronze medallist at Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004, with five European titles and the eponymous Huizinga roll.
Mark Hunt
Mark Hunt, "The Super Samoan" (born 1974), New Zealand kickboxer and MMA heavyweight; 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix champion who fought in PRIDE and the UFC, retiring 13-14-1 and later suing the UFC over doping.
Mark Jindrak
Mark Jindrak (Marco Corleone), born 1977, American pro wrestler; two-time WCW World Tag Team Champion with Sean O'Haire, WWE 2001–2005, nearly an original Evolution member, later CMLL star in Mexico.
Mark Kerr (fighter)
Mark Kerr, nicknamed "The Smashing Machine", is an American retired mixed martial artist who won the heavyweight tournaments at UFC 14 and UFC 15 in 1997.
Mark Magsayo
Mark Magsayo (Jessel Mark Araula Magsayo, nicknamed "Magnifico") is a Filipino professional boxer born in 1995 in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, who won the WBC featherweight title in 2022.
Mark Midler
Mark Midler (Марк Петрович Мидлер, 1931–2012), Soviet foil fencer from Moscow; Olympic team foil gold 1960 and 1964, six world team titles 1959–1966, later Soviet/Russian national foil coach 1971–2000.
Mark Nash (announcer)
Mark Nash is the ring name of Mark Shunock, Canadian-born WWE SmackDown ring announcer since March 2025, formerly Top Rank Boxing on ESPN announcer and Vegas Golden Knights in-arena host with a 2023 Stanley Cup ring.
Mark Rakita
Mark Semyonovich Rakita (Марк Семёнович Ракита), born 1938 in Moscow, Soviet sabre fencer; two-time Olympic team champion (1964, 1968), 1968 individual silver, 1967 world champion, later coach of Krovopuskov and Burtsev.
Mark Schultz (wrestler)
Mark Schultz (born 1960, Palo Alto) is an American freestyle wrestler, 1984 Olympic middleweight gold medalist, 1985 and 1987 World champion, three-time NCAA champion, and author of the Foxcatcher memoir.
Mark Striegl
Mark "Mugen" Striegl, born 1988 in Tokyo, is a Filipino-American MMA featherweight with an 18-5-0 (1 NC) record, 14 submission wins, SEAG sambo gold, URCC featherweight title, and a 0-2 UFC stint.
Marlon Moraes
Marlon "Magic" Moraes (born 1988, Nova Friburgo, Brazil) is a Brazilian MMA fighter, former WSOF bantamweight champion with five defenses and 2019 UFC title challenger vs Henry Cejudo; retired 2023, returned at Liga Monstro Combate 2 in 2026.
Marlon Vera
Marlon "Chito" Vera (Marlon Andres Vera Delgado), Ecuadorian UFC bantamweight, 24-12-1, 19 finishes, TUF LATAM alum, lost 2024 title fight to Sean O'Malley, KO'd Dominick Cruz, ranked #11.
Marquess of Queensberry Rules
Marquess of Queensberry Rules: twelve boxing rules written by John Graham Chambers, published 1867 under the 9th Marquess of Queensberry; established gloves, 3-minute rounds, and the 10-second knockout count.
Marshall and Ross Von Erich
Marshall and Ross Von Erich, sons of Kevin Von Erich, are a third-generation American tag team who held the MLW World Tag Team Championship and later wrestled for AEW and Ring of Honor.
Martha Hart
Martha Joan Hart is a Canadian philanthropist, author, and pediatrics researcher known as the widow of wrestler Owen Hart, who died in 1999; she founded the Owen Hart Foundation in 2000.
Martial arts
Martial arts: codified combat systems, chiefly East Asian (kung fu, karate, judo, taekwondo), practiced for sport, self-defense, fitness, and health; distinct from Western combat sports like boxing and wrestling.
Martial arts manual
Martial arts manual, or fight book: a text recording martial arts theory and techniques for posterity, from European fencing books (Fiore, Talhoffer) to Korea's Muyedobotongji and India's Mallapurāṇa; central to HEMA reconstruction debates.
Martin Bakole
Martin Bakole (Martin Bakole Ilunga), Congolese heavyweight boxer based in Airdrie, Scotland, brother of Ilunga Makabu; WBA No. 1 contender in December 2023, beat Tony Yoka and Jared Anderson, later stopped by Joseph Parker and drew with Efe Ajagba in 2025.
Martin Buday
Martin "Badys" Buday (born 1991, Nitra, Slovakia) is a Slovak heavyweight MMA fighter, former Oktagon heavyweight champion, 7-1 in the UFC, released July 2025, then lost to Will Fleury at Oktagon 81.
Martin Murray (boxer)
Martin Murray is a retired English professional boxer from St Helens, Merseyside, who fought at middleweight and challenged five times for world titles without winning one.