Individual Combat Sports include Boxing, Wrestling, Fencing, Martial Arts (Karate, Taekwon-Do), Modern American Combat (UFC Ultimate Fighting, WWE Wrestling, Glatiating and MMA Mixed Martial Arts) and World Combat Sports including Ancient and Medieval European Combat Sports (Kickboxing, Sumo, and Medieval Armoured Combat).
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Boxing
Variations on Boxing include Olympic / Professional Boxing, Bare-Knuckle Boxing (currently not sanctioned), UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and Kickboxing
Boxing
Irish Athletic Boxing Association
Ireland’s most successful Olympic Sport.
Irish Athletic Boxing Association
Irish Athletic Boxing Association Irish Olympic Medal Winners 1952-Present
Strandja Multi-Nations Sofia Bulgaria (Years): 2020
Modified Rules Boxing-UFC
(Ireland-International)
Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules.
Modified Rules Boxing – Floyd Mayweather Jr versus Conor McGregor
Wrestling
Competitive Wresling dates back to at least the Original Olympic Games in Athens, Ancient Greece. Another Ancient versions of Wrestling is Sumo (Japan). Modern versions include Olympic (Greco-Roman), WWE (American), Lucha Libre (Mexico), and indeed also Mud Wrestling (England) and Jelly Wrestling (Ireland).
Olympic Wrestling (Greco-Roman)
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association
Olympic Wrestling is the version which dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome and the original Olympic Games. It is the version in the Modern Olym;pics also.
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association Events:
Irish Open (Years): 2019
Dublin Freestyle Open (Years): 2019
Fencing and Sword Fighting
Fencing is a renaissance sword-fighting sport. Gladiating is the ancient version revived for TV in Gladiators and Armoured Combat is the medieval version of sword-fighting.
Martial Arts
There are a number of Martial arts in Ireland, the most popular of which are Karate, Judo & Taekwondo.
Karate
Irish Kenpo Karate Union; International Japan Karate Association Ireland
International Japan Karate Association Ireland
IJKAI Irish National Championships (Years): 2000
Irish Kenpo Karate Union
IKKU Open (Years): 2019
IKKU Invitational (Years): 2015
I-Karate Global
I-Karate Global World Cup (Editions): 2018
Taekwon-Do
Irish Taekwon-Do Association
Irish Taekwon-Do Association
ITA Irish Cup & National Championships (Years): 2016
Modern American Combat
USA has updated most traditional Combat Sports for the Television and Internet Ages. The most popular of these Modern American Combat Sports would be Ultimate Fighting (a version of Boxing); WWE Wrestling (A modern American version of the traditional Greco-Roman spoort; Gladiating, a made-for-TV version of the Ancient Games in Rome and Greece involving sword-fighters; and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts , a modern no-holds-barred version of Martial Arts).
Ultimate Fighting (USA)
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship
WWE Wrestling (USA)
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment is the Modern American made-for-TV version of wrestling.
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment Irish Wrestlers 2001-Present
Picture Credit: A selection of colorful “Lucha Libre” Mexican professional wrestling masks, for sale outside of Arena Mexico, Mexico City By bmszealand / www.shutterstock.com
Gladiating
ITV Gladiators
Gladiating is a fun version of the ancient Roman military combat as was seen on US and British TV Programs from the 1990s onwards.
Various types of combat or adventure-like tasks are engaged in by teams of players.
Irish Gladiator Contestants:
Audrey Garland Irish-born Gladiators Contestant 1997
There are a couple of venues in Ireland where people can engage in Gladiator Weekends:
Adventure Park (Watergrasshill, Co. Cork): https://www.adventurepark.ie/
Team Building Ireland (Kippure, Blessington, Co. Wicklow): https://teambuildingireland.com/corporate-family-fun-day/
World Combat Sports
World Combat Sports include Ancient, Medieval and Traditional Sports such as Sumo (Japan Wrestling), Kickboxing (Thailand), and Medieval Armoured Combat (Europe).
Sumo (Japan)
Sumo World Championships
John Gunning was the first Irishman to compete in the Sumo World Championships for Ireland.
Irish International Sumo Wrestlers
John Gunning Irish Sumo Wrestler
Sumo Reference
I have it on the authority of John Gunning that this Referece website is one of the best ever. The German who compiled it went through over 100 years of Japanese Newspapers. It cnntains the results of every Japanese Sumo bout ever recorded back to early 1900s or before.
Sumo Reference: http://sumodb.sumogames.de/
Medieval Armoured Combat
Medieval Armoured Combat Ireland
MACI Claregalway Castle Group Fights (Internationals)(Years):2017