The Most Famous
MARTIAL ARTS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Martial Arts. The pantheon dataset contains 179 Martial Arts, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 28th most number of Martial Arts behind Italy, and Australia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Martial Arts of all time. This list of famous Iranian Martial Arts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Gegard Mousasi (b. 1985)
With an HPI of 34.13, Gegard Mousasi is the most famous Iranian Martial Arts. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Gegard Mousasi (born 1 August 1985) is a Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. Mousasi most recently competed in Bellator MMA, where he is the former two-time Bellator Middleweight Champion. He is also the former DREAM Light Heavyweight Champion, former DREAM Middleweight Champion, former Cage Warriors World Middleweight Champion, and the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion, thus making Mousasi an overall six-time MMA world champion. At the moment of his departure from the UFC in July 2017, he was #4 in the official UFC middleweight rankings, and he is currently ranked the #12 middleweight MMA fighter in the world by Fight Matrix.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Iranian martial arts born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Iranian martial arts include Gegard Mousasi.
