The Most Famous
MARTIAL ARTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Martial Arts. The pantheon dataset contains 179 Martial Arts, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 20th most number of Martial Arts behind United Kingdom, and Canada.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Martial Arts of all time. This list of famous South African Martial Arts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Francois Botha (b. 1968)
With an HPI of 43.27, Francois Botha is the most famous South African Martial Arts. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Francois "Frans" Botha (born 28 September 1968) is a South African former professional boxer and kickboxer. He competed in boxing from 1990 to 2014, and is perhaps best known for winning the IBF heavyweight title against Axel Schulz in 1995, but was later stripped after failing a drug test. He later challenged twice for world heavyweight titles in 2000 and 2002. Botha has competed against former Heavyweight Champions Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Michael Moorer and Evander Holyfield late in their respective careers. Botha competed once in mixed martial arts in 2004.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as South African martial arts born between 1968 and 1968. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South African martial arts include Francois Botha.
