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NEVER Openweight Championship
NEVER Openweight Championship (NEVER無差別級王座), NJPW openweight singles title established November 19, 2012 with inaugural champion Masato Tanaka; NEVER stands for New Blood, Evolution, Valiantly, Eternal, Radical; current 52nd champion Aaron Wolf.
New Jack
New Jack (Jerome Young, 1963–2021), American hardcore wrestler of ECW's The Gangstas with Mustafa Saed; three-time ECW Tag Team Champion, known for the Mass Transit incident, staple gun, and Natural Born Killaz theme.
New Japan Cup (ニュージャパンカップ)
New Japan Cup (ニュージャパンカップ), NJPW's annual March single-elimination openweight tournament since 2005; winner gets an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match. First winner Hiroshi Tanahashi; latest Callum Newman (2026); Hirooki Goto has a record three wins.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (新日本プロレスリング, NJPW), founded by Antonio Inoki on January 13, 1972, is Japan's oldest active pro-wrestling promotion, home of Wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome, the IWGP title, and the G1 Climax, now co-owned by TV Asahi and CyberAgent.
New World Order (professional wrestling)
The New World Order (nWo) was a WCW wrestling stable formed in 1996 by Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash, dominating ratings until 2002.
Ng Mui (五枚)
Ng Mui (五枚, Wu Mei) is the legendary Buddhist nun and Shaolin elder credited in oral tradition with founding Wing Chun and teaching Yim Wing Chun; no historical evidence supports her existence.
Nia Jax
Nia Jax (Savelina/Lina Fanene, born 1984), Anoa'i family member and The Rock's cousin, is a WWE wrestler: two-time WWE Women's Champion, three-time tag team champion, 2024 Queen of the Ring winner, known for her size-based 'Irresistible Force' persona and safety criticisms.
Nicco Montaño
Nicco Montaño, American mixed martial artist; first UFC women's flyweight champion and first Native American UFC champion, winning TUF 26 in 2017; stripped of the title in 2018 after a weight-cut hospitalization, later released by the UFC with a 5-3 record.
Nick Aldis
Nick Aldis is an English professional wrestler, known as Magnus in TNA, a former TNA and NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion now serving as SmackDown's General Manager in WWE.
Nick Ball (boxer)
Nick Ball, "The Wrecking Ball", English featherweight boxer from Liverpool; WBA featherweight champion June 2024 to February 2026, winning against Raymond Ford and defending against Rios, Doheny, and Goodman before losing to Brandon Figueroa.
Nick Blackwell
Nick "Bang Bang" Blackwell, British middleweight boxing champion from Trowbridge, lost his title to Chris Eubank Jr in March 2016, suffered a brain bleed and coma, retired, then was injured again sparring.
Nick Bockwinkel
Nick Bockwinkel (1934-2015), American professional wrestler, four-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion (2,990 total days) and three-time AWA tag champion with Ray Stevens, managed by Bobby Heenan; later WCW Commissioner and 2007 WWE Hall of Famer.
Nick Diaz
Nick Diaz, Stockton-born MMA fighter, former Strikeforce and WEC welterweight champion, 26-10 record, Cesar Gracie-trained boxer and jiu-jitsu black belt, brother of Nate Diaz.
Nick Gage
Nick Gage (Nicholas William Wilson, born 1980) is an American deathmatch wrestler, first CZW World Heavyweight Champion and multi-time GCW World Champion, known as the King of Ultraviolence and for a 2011 bank robbery prison term.
Nick Newell
Nick Newell (born 1986), nicknamed "Notorious", is an American MMA lightweight born with a congenital amputation of his left arm. Former XFC champion, 16-4, challenged Justin Gaethje for the WSOF title and later fought in Bellator.
Nick Patrick (referee)
Nick Patrick, ring name of Joseph Nicholas Patrick Hamilton Jr. (born 1959), retired American pro wrestling referee, son of Jody Hamilton; WCW 1988-2001, WWE 2001-2008, nWo's heel referee.
Nico Ali Walsh
Nico Ali Walsh (born 2000), grandson of Muhammad Ali via daughter Rasheda, is an American middleweight boxer with Top Rank since 2021; pro record 12-3-1, 5 KOs, including losses to Sona Akale, Juan Carlos Guerra Jr., and Treavon Craycraft.
Nicola Adams
Nicola Adams (born 1982, Leeds) is a British retired boxer, first woman to win Olympic boxing gold (London 2012 flyweight) and to retain it (Rio 2016); later WBO flyweight champion, retired 2019.
Nicolae Linca
Nicolae Linca (1929-2008), Romanian amateur boxer, welterweight gold at Melbourne 1956, beating Ireland's Fred Tiedt 3-2 on a controversial decision while fighting with a broken finger; Romania's only Olympic boxing champion.
Nicolae Martinescu
Nicolae Martinescu (1940–2013), Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic heavyweight (100 kg) gold at Munich 1972 and light-heavyweight bronze at Mexico 1968; 18-time Romanian champion, world silver medalist 1963 and 1971.
Nicolas Dalby
Nicolas Dalby, "Danish Dynamite" or "Lokomotivo" (born 1984), Danish welterweight MMA fighter and two-time Cage Warriors champion; UFC veteran since 2015 who was released in 2016, rebuilt his career, and returned in 2019.
Nicole Bass
Nicole Bass (Nicole Bass-Fuchs, 1964-2017), American female bodybuilder who won the 1997 NPC Nationals, then wrestled for ECW and the WWF in 1998-1999 as Sable's bodyguard and later sued the WWF for sexual harassment.
Nidia Guenard
Nidia Guenard (Nidia), born 1979, Houston, Texas, is a retired American wrestler who co-won WWE Tough Enough season 1 (2001) with Maven, debuted on SmackDown in 2002 as Jamie Noble's on-screen girlfriend, and left WWE in 2004.
Nieky Holzken
Nieky 'The Natural' Holzken (Nicolaas Holzken, born 1983, Helmond, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch kickboxer and boxer; Glory Welterweight Champion 2015, ONE Championship veteran, boxing record 15-2 with 11 KOs.
Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn, the "Dark Destroyer", British boxer born 1964 in Ilford; two-division world champion (WBO middleweight, WBC super middleweight), 42-5-1 with 35 KOs, defined by his 1990s rivalry with Chris Eubank and the 1995 Gerald McClellan fight.
Nigel Benn vs. Chris Eubank
Nigel Benn vs. Chris Eubank: 1990s British boxing rivalry; Eubank won the 1990 WBO middleweight title fight by ninth-round TKO in Birmingham, and the 1993 Old Trafford rematch ended in a draw; their sons fought twice in 2025.
Nigel McGuinness
Nigel McGuinness (Steven Haworth, born 1978, London) is an English wrestling commentator and former ROH World and Pure Champion, also known as Desmond Wolfe in TNA, now commentating and occasionally wrestling for AEW and ROH.
Night of Champions (2014)
Night of Champions (2014), WWE's eighth annual September pay-per-view, held September 21, 2014 at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville. Brock Lesnar retained the WWE World Heavyweight Title against John Cena by disqualification; Gold & Stardust, The Miz, and AJ Lee won titles.
Night of Champions (2015)
Night of Champions (2015) was a professional wrestling event held in Houston, known for Seth Rollins' title changes and Demon Kane's dramatic return to close the show.
Night of Champions (2023)
Night of Champions (2023) was a WWE Premium Live Event on May 27, 2023 at the Jeddah Superdome, Saudi Arabia, where Seth Rollins won the World Heavyweight Championship and Jimmy Uso's superkick on Roman Reigns caused The Bloodline to implode.