The Most Famous
MARTIAL ARTS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Martial Arts. The pantheon dataset contains 118 Martial Arts, 1 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 22nd most number of Martial Arts behind South Africa and Nigeria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Martial Arts of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Martial Arts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cung Le (1972 - )
With an HPI of 40.35, Cung Le is the most famous Vietnamese Martial Arts. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Cung Le (Vietnamese: Lê Cung; born May 25, 1972) is an American actor, retired mixed martial artist, Sanshou fighter and kickboxer. He competed as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), holding a record of 2–2 with the organization. In kickboxing and sanshou, he is a former International Kickboxing Federation Light Heavyweight World Champion, having a professional kickboxing record of 17–0 before moving to mixed martial arts. He defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating the title to further pursue his acting career. Le is perhaps best known in mixed martial arts for competing in Strikeforce, holding a record of 7–1 with the organization before its demise.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as martial arts born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living martial arts include Cung Le.
