The Most Famous
MARTIAL ARTS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Martial Arts. The pantheon dataset contains 179 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 (b. 1972)
With an HPI of 39.68, 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. 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. He defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating the title to further pursue his acting career. 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. As an actor, Le has appeared in films such as Tekken, Pandorum, Fighting, Bodyguards and Assassins (all in 2009), The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), Puncture Wounds (2014), and Savage Dog (2017). He had a lead role in the martial arts film Dragon Eyes (2012), co-starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and produced by Joel Silver.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Vietnamese martial arts born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Vietnamese martial arts include Cung Le.
