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
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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 Olympics also.
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). This page focuses on the Greco-Roman Wrestling, for other versions see Irish Combat Sports, British Combat Sports, American Combat Sports and World Combat Sports.
Irish Amateur Wrestling Association Events:
Irish Open (Years): 2019
Dublin Freestyle Open (Years): 2019
Picture Credit: [2] Irish Amateur Wrestling Association (2019) about_us [Internet] Available from: https://www.irishwrestling.ie/img/about_us.jpg [Accessed 23 November 2020]
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
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Taekwon-Do
Irish Taekwon-Do Association
Irish Taekwon-Do Association
ITA Irish Cup & National Championships (Years): 2016
Picture Credit: [1] Irish Taekwon-Do Association (2016) ITA+Logo [Internet] Available from: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5de5132908114a27bbdd5250/t/5de51d89b93cc92d39dc8c9c/1618517334164/?format=1500w [Accessed 28 April 2021]
WWE
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: [3] Becky Lynch WWE Facebook (2020) Photo, January 21, 2020 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p960x960/83001548_2496579183941929_2963653989746343936_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=W6fCHcHC8QQAX-8Ppo8&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=bcae12c1ab5debedd9ee7a1af08ac971&oe=5EC9334D [Accessed 1 February 2020]
UFC (America)
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship
UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship Irish Fighters
Images
[1] Conor McGregor Facebook (2016) Profile Picture, March 26, 2016 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12472457_1241042205964076_2034147305309584757_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=4wQ13WTaWjEAX-ggUS4&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=edec85652a3d5ab0f03ef43caa44ab94&oe=5E953CD5 [Accessed 1 February 2020]
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/
Picture Credit: ITV Gladiators
Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules
Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules.
Irish Combat Sports include Boxing-UFC Compromise Rules; Bare-Knuckle Boxing (no longer sanctioned in Ireland but still sanctioned in 3 American States); and Jelly Wrestling (Not Sanctioned).
Modified Rules Boxing – Floyd Mayweather Jr versus Conor McGregor
Picture Credit: [1] Conor McGregor Facebook (2016) Profile Picture, March 26, 2016 [Internet] Available from: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12472457_1241042205964076_2034147305309584757_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=4wQ13WTaWjEAX-ggUS4&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=edec85652a3d5ab0f03ef43caa44ab94&oe=5E953CD5 [Accessed 1 February 2020]
Medieval Armoured Combat
Medieval Armoured Combat Ireland
Medieval Armoured Combat involves Knights, dressed up in Armour for the occasion, fighting each other using lances and swords and other weapons.
MACI Claregalway Castle Group Fights (Internationals)(Years):2017
Kickboxing (Thailand)
Kickboxing Ireland
Kickboxing originated in Thailand. Kicks as wel as punches are allowed, as are a variety of weapons.
Galway International Kickboxing Challenge (Years): 1998
Kickboxing Ireland Award Winners (Years): 2019
Picture credit: [3] Kickboxing Ireland (2014) light_slide [Internet] Available from: https://www.kickboxingireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/light_slide.png [Accessed 15 October 2020]
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/
[5] Irish Independent (2019) John Gunning [Internet] Available from: https://cdn-02.independent.ie/life/d5719/38510314.ece/AUTOCROP/w620/2019-09-21_lif_53264469_I3.JPG [Accessed 1 February 2020]
Lucha Libre (Mexico)
AAA
Mexican version of WWE Wrestling
Triplemania (Bouts): XXIV 2018
Picture Credit: [4] Lucha Libre AAA (2020) TriplemanÃa-XXIV-15 [Internet] Available from: http://www.luchalibreaaa.com/en/psycho-clown-gran-ganador-triplemania-xxiv/ [Accessed 5 October 2020]