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This is a list of people considered greatest fighter ever.

This is usually defined as:

• having minimal loss in the the win-loss ratio of their professional career.
• they are not legendary or historical figures
• matches are not pre-choreographed nor staged
• preferably being a champion of one or more professional associations

Contents 1 Boxing 2 Jeet Kuen Do 3 Judo 4 Karate 5 Mixed Martial Arts 6 Amateur Wrestling 7 Tae Kwon Do 8 References 9 See also

[edit] Boxing

• Sugar Ray Robinson - routinely rated as the top boxer of all-time in a pound-for-pound sense, 5-time middleweight champion and former welterweight champion.
• Joe Louis - defended the undisputed heavyweight championship 25 consecutive times over 10 years.
• Rocky Marciano - the only heavyweight champ to retire undefeated throughout his entire career.
• Muhammad Ali - often nominated as the greatest heavyweight of all-time along with Joe Louis, also the first 3-time heavyweight champion.
• Jack Dempsey - Long considered the greatest fighter of all time, holding the record for first round knockouts (26) and won the greatest size differential in heavyweight title history (68 pounds, 5 inches).<ref>Career record</ref>

[edit] Jeet Kuen Do

• Bruce Lee - Universally regarded as a master of the genre.<ref>The Greatest Martial Artist of All Time</ref>

[edit] Judo

• Masahiko Kimura - only lost 4 times in his life<ref>Masahiko Kimura (1917-1993)</ref>

[edit] Karate

• Mas Oyama - Completed the 300-man kumite, defeated (unarmed) 79 bulls (killed 3), defeated almost every master of every style in Japan.

[edit] Mixed Martial Arts

• Fedor Emelianenko - long-time heavyweight champion of Pride Fighting Championships<ref>Official Record from Pridefc.com</ref>, unbeaten in six years. World Combat Sambo Champion of 2002 and 2005, Rings King of Kings Heavyweight Tournament Champion of 2001.
• Kazushi Sakuraba - often posited as the greatest of all-time, defeated several top-flight fighters in weight-classes above his own over the first half of his career
• Mirko Filipović - winner of Pride Open Weight Grand Prix and considered one of the best by mixed-martial arts fans from the start of his career. Defeated by Fedor Emelianenko in August 2005.
• Rickson Gracie - considered by many as the unoffial champion of mixed-martial arts, holds an official record of 11-0. Alleged to hold approximately 400 victories and not a single loss in Jiu-Jitsu, Sambo, and other full contact fighting style tournaments. Gracie did, however, lose to Don Tripp at the at 1993 United States Sambo Championships in Norman, Oklahoma and no evidence exists of his 400 alleged victories.

[edit] Amateur Wrestling

• Dan Gable - As an amateur from his high school career to his retirement in 1973, he was a record of 299-6-3
• Alexander Karelin - went undefeated in international competition from 1987 until 2000
• Kurt Angle - Olympic Gold Medalist and a heavyweight champion.

[edit] Tae Kwon Do

• Young Soo Do - Korean Undisputed World Tae Kwon Do Champion from 1969-1971, during that three year span he accumulated an unmatched record of 156 wins, no losses. It should be noted that all of his bouts ended by Knockout, all in the first round, an incredible feat unmatched in any competitive contact sport.

[edit] References

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[edit] See also

• Undisputed Champion