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Night of Champions (2025)
Night of Champions (2025) was a WWE premium live event on June 28, 2025 at Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. John Cena retained the Undisputed WWE Championship over CM Punk; Cody Rhodes and Jade Cargill won King and Queen of the Ring; Solo Sikoa won the United States title.
Night of Champions (2026)
Night of Champions (2026), also promoted as Night of Champions: Riyadh, was a WWE pay-per-view held June 27, 2026, at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Sami Zayn won the Undisputed WWE Championship.
Nik Lentz
Nik Lentz, "The Carny" (born 1984), American UFC lightweight and featherweight, former University of Minnesota wrestler; pro record 30-12-2, 1 NC; UFC 14-9-1, 1 NC; retired after 2021 loss to Movsar Evloev.
Nikhat Zareen
Nikhat Zareen, Indian amateur boxer from Nizamabad, Telangana; two-time IBA Women's World champion (2022 Istanbul 52kg, 2023 New Delhi 50kg), 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games 50kg gold, mid-range stylist, Paris 2024 Olympian.
Nikita Koloff
Nikita Koloff, ring name of Nelson Scott Simpson (born 1959), American NWA/WCW wrestler billed as Ivan Koloff's Soviet nephew, "The Russian Nightmare"; 1986 US Champion, retired 1992, now a minister.
Nikita Krylov (Никита Андреевич Крылов)
Nikita Krylov (Никита Андреевич Крылов), "The Miner", Ukrainian-born UFC light heavyweight born 1992; 31-12 pro, 12-10 UFC, 13 KO and 16 submission wins; lost to Whittaker at UFC 329, next fights Yakhyaev at UFC 333.
Nikki Bella
Nikki Bella (Nicole Garcia Colace), WWE Hall of Famer and twin of Brie Bella of The Bella Twins; record 301-day Divas Champion, retired 2019 after neck surgery and a brain cyst diagnosis, returned to WWE in 2025.
Nikki Cross
Nikki Cross (Nicola Glencross, b. 1989, Glasgow), Scottish wrestler; WWE 2016-2026 as Nikki Cross and Nikki A.S.H.; Raw Women's Champion, three-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion, 2021 Money in the Bank winner; now Nikki Storm, co-owner of PROGRESS Wrestling.
Nikkita Lyons
Nikkita Lyons (Faith Marie Jefferies, aka FaithyJ, Faith The Lioness), American WWE wrestler and musician on NXT/Evolve; signed 2021, reigning WWE Evolve Women's Champion since June 24, 2026.
Niko Price
Niko Price, "The Hybrid" (born 1989, Cape Coral, Florida), American UFC welterweight; 17-11 (2 NC) pro record, 11 KO wins, famous for hammerfist and upkick knockouts, retired March 2026 then returned with a first-round TKO of Leon Shahbazyan in October 2026.
Niko Vance
Niko Vance (Skylor Clinton, born 1999) is an American WWE NXT wrestler, former football tight end, ex-member of The Culling with Shawn Spears and Izzi Dame, and 2026 ROW Champion.
Nikola Stanchev
Nikola Stanchev (Никола Станчев), 1930–2009, Bulgarian freestyle wrestler; won middleweight ≤79 kg gold at Melbourne 1956, Bulgaria's first Olympic title, beating Dan Hodge by fall.
Nikolai Valuev (Николай Сергеевич Валуев)
Nikolai Valuev (Николай Сергеевич Валуев), "The Russian Giant", born 1973, is a Russian State Duma deputy and former two-time WBA heavyweight boxing champion, the tallest and heaviest champion in history, retiring at 50-2 (34 KOs).
Nikolai Volkoff
Nikolai Volkoff (Josip Nikolai Peruzović, 1947–2018) was a Croatian-born WWE wrestler famous as a Soviet villain, singing the USSR anthem, and winning the WWF Tag Team Championship with The Iron Sheik at WrestleMania I.
Nikolay Alyokhin
Nikolay Alyokhin (Николай Александрович Алёхин), 1954-2023, Belorussian sabre fencer for the Soviet Union; 1980 Moscow Olympic team gold, 1979 world champion, 1981 world silver; distinct from footballer Nikolay Alekhin and MMA fighter Nikolay Aleksakhin.
Nikolay Balboshin
Nikolay Balboshin (Николай Фёдорович Балбошин, born 1949, Potsdam) is a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, 1976 Olympic heavyweight (≤100 kg) champion who pinned all five Montreal opponents, five-time world and six-time European champion, and 1976/1980 Soviet flagbearer.
Nikolay Solodukhin
Nikolay Ivanovich Solodukhin (Николай Иванович Солодухин), Soviet judoka born 1955 in Paserkovo, Kursk Oblast; 1980 Moscow Olympic half-lightweight (65 kg) champion, world champion 1979 and 1983, European champion 1979, later a Kursk police colonel.
Nikolay Solovyov
Nikolay Solovyov (Николай Николаевич Соловьёв, 1931-2007), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, won flyweight gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics by pinning Ignazio Fabra despite a loss to Eğribaş; later a national-team coach and referee.
Nils Hellsten
Nils Hellsten names two Swedish Olympic athletes from Stockholm: fencer Nils Erik Hellsten (1886-1962), bronze in individual epee at Paris 1924, Sweden's first fencing medal, and gymnast Nils Robert Hellsten (1885-1963), 1908 team gold.
Ninjutsu (忍術)
Ninjutsu (忍術), the Japanese art of the ninja or shinobi, covered covert infiltration, espionage, disguise, and survival techniques perfected in the Sengoku period; its documented history rests on three Edo-period manuals, Bansenshūkai, Shōninki, and Ninpiden, while the black-clad ninja image is modern myth.
No Holds Barred (1989 film)
No Holds Barred is a 1989 WWF-produced action film starring Hulk Hogan as wrestler Rip, directed by Thomas J. Wright, released by New Line Cinema; it grossed about $16 million and spawned the Zeus storyline and a 1989 pay-per-view.
No Mercy (2002)
No Mercy 2002, WWE pay-per-view held October 20, 2002 at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit became first WWE Tag Team Champions, Triple H unified the World Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles, and Brock Lesnar beat The Undertaker in Hell in a Cell.
No Mercy (2016)
No Mercy (2016) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for SmackDown, held on October 9, 2016, at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California.
No Mercy (2017)
No Mercy (2017): WWE Raw-brand pay-per-view, September 24, 2017, Staples Center (now Crypto.com Arena), Los Angeles; attendance 16,106. Brock Lesnar retained the Universal title over Braun Strowman; Roman Reigns beat John Cena; Enzo Amore won the Cruiserweight title.
No Quarter Catch Crew
No Quarter Catch Crew (NQCC) was a WWE NXT wrestling stable (2023–2026) founded by Drew Gulak around catch-as-catch-can wrestling; members included Charlie Dempsey, Myles Borne, Damon Kemp, Tavion Heights, and Wren Sinclair.
No Retreat, No Surrender
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) is an American-Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Corey Yuen, starring Kurt McKinney and Jean-Claude Van Damme as Ivan the Russian, in which a bullied Seattle teen trains with the ghost of Bruce Lee; it spawned a name-only sequel series.
No Way Jose (wrestler)
No Way Jose (Levis Valenzuela Jr., born 1988) is an American wrestler known for his dancing conga-line gimmick in WWE's NXT and Raw, 2015–2020, later Impact Wrestling as "No Way".
No Way Out (2001)
No Way Out (2001), WWF pay-per-view, February 25, 2001, Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada; The Rock beat Kurt Angle for the WWF Championship and Triple H beat Steve Austin in Three Stages of Hell.
No Way Out (2003)
No Way Out 2003: WWE pay-per-view, February 23, 2003, Bell Centre, Montreal; fifth No Way Out, only one with both brands and a double main event; Rock beat Hogan, Triple H retained, Austin returned, Matt Hardy won the Cruiserweight title.
No Way Out (2004)
No Way Out 2004: WWE SmackDown pay-per-view, February 15, 2004, Cow Palace, Daly City, California. Eddie Guerrero beat Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship after a Goldberg spear; Chavo Guerrero won the Cruiserweight Title; 11,000 attendance.