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The people who built the sport

Every fighter here is placed in the ruleset they actually competed under, because that context is the difference between understanding a career and just reading a record. Ernesto Hoost is unimaginable without leg kicks. Bill Wallace is unimaginable with them. Andy Hug’s signature technique exists because Kyokushin bans punches to the head.

The K-1 era

GLORY and ONE era

Pioneers and other traditions

Records are given in the shape each fighter is commonly documented with rather than as precise tallies — kickboxing record-keeping differs across sanctioning bodies and eras, and a falsely exact number would be worse than an honest approximate one.