• Thumbnail for Professional Karate Association
    The Professional Karate Association (PKA), later Professional Karate & Kickboxing Association, now—effective March 1, 2022 PKA Worldwide--was originally...
    11 KB (1,264 words) - 18:54, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for World Kickboxing Association
    Kickboxing Association (WKA) also known as World Kickboxing and Karate Association, is one of the oldest and the largest amateur and professional sanctioning...
    12 KB (1,213 words) - 20:51, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for ISKA (sports governing body)
    (originally International Sport Karate Association, later also called the International Sport Kickboxing Association) is one of the major international...
    14 KB (1,378 words) - 05:30, 14 April 2024
  • Kickboxing Association (WKA) World Super Light Heavyweight Full Contact Championship match in 1984. He rebounded from this by winning the Professional Karate Association...
    46 KB (3,091 words) - 13:32, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Full contact karate
    full contact karate competition format is American full contact karate which was developed in the US by the Professional Karate Association during early...
    20 KB (2,429 words) - 15:39, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bill Wallace (martial artist)
    and former professional kickboxer. Considered one of the first American superstars of kickboxing, he was the Professional Karate Association (PKA) World...
    19 KB (1,190 words) - 03:21, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benny Urquidez
    American former professional kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Nicknamed "The Jet", Urquidez was a non-contact karate competitor who later...
    53 KB (4,417 words) - 03:49, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karate
    Karate (空手) (/kəˈrɑːti/; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɾate] ; Okinawan pronunciation: [kaɽati]), also karate-do (空手道, Karate-dō), is a martial art developed...
    103 KB (11,566 words) - 06:59, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Don Quine
    the Professional Karate Association (PKA) whose Kick of the 80’s weekly fight series on ESPN ran for close to a decade. He wrote American Karate, a book...
    6 KB (584 words) - 00:17, 24 July 2023
  • Sifu Winston Omega. Professional Karate Association PKA World Light Heavyweight Championship[when?] World Kick Boxing Association WKBA California State...
    39 KB (2,915 words) - 12:45, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scott Adkins
    Jones, eventually becoming a kickboxing instructor for the Professional Karate Association. He ran classes at the Fitness First at Bearwood, Smethwick...
    17 KB (942 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2024
  • 2012) was an American martial artist, professional kickboxer and actor. Originally a practitioner of Shōrin-ryū karate and champion in point sparring competitions...
    31 KB (3,165 words) - 03:33, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kickboxing
    and was brought to prominence in September 1974, when the Professional Karate Association (PKA) held the first World Championships. Historically, kickboxing...
    74 KB (8,744 words) - 19:15, 16 April 2024
  • retired kickboxer, a former Professional Karate Association Full-Contact Middleweight United States Champion, a sport karate Hall of Famer, and the only...
    12 KB (442 words) - 16:24, 8 January 2020
  • establishing key authenticity in public-key cryptography Professional Karate Association Primary knock-on atom, an atom that is displaced from its lattice...
    913 bytes (146 words) - 20:29, 9 December 2023
  • American karate and kickboxing competitor, instructor, broadcaster and promoter who helped achieve the success of the Professional Karate Association and the...
    7 KB (782 words) - 14:41, 7 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Don Wilson (kickboxer)
    decision; these losses were changed into no contests by the Professional Karate Association. Wilson's first career match was against Bill Knoblock and...
    52 KB (2,043 words) - 16:33, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean-Claude Van Damme
    Arena on the undercard of the Dan Macaruso-Dominique Valera Professional Karate Association Light-Heavyweight World Championship bout. Prior to this match...
    103 KB (8,100 words) - 22:15, 6 April 2024
  • Kyokushin (redirect from Kyoku shin karate)
    Kyokushin (極真) is a style of karate originating in Japan. It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement...
    68 KB (6,843 words) - 14:00, 3 April 2024
  • kickboxing on May 5, 1984, to challenge John Jackson for the Professional Karate Association United States Heavyweight title in Birmingham, Alabama, losing...
    31 KB (1,629 words) - 08:10, 2 January 2024
  • (NJKF) utilizes the following weight classes: The (now defunct) Professional Karate Association (PKA) utilized the following weight classes: The ONE Championship...
    46 KB (461 words) - 11:39, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karyn Turner
    Superfights, Inc., and serving on the executive board of the Professional Karate Association (PKA), Turner was an innovator in bringing mixed martial arts...
    4 KB (560 words) - 14:35, 25 March 2023
  • contact karate United States Karate Association (USKA) Professional Karate Association (PKA) World Kickboxing Association (WKA) International Sport Karate Association...
    3 KB (337 words) - 17:38, 17 March 2023
  • Maan Karate (transl. Deer Karate) is a 2014 Tamil-language sports comedy film written and directed by Krish Thirukumaran. The film was written and co-produced...
    21 KB (2,167 words) - 19:00, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sonny Onoo
    Sonny Onoo (category Professional wrestling managers and valets)
    kickboxing and martial arts tournaments between 1975 and 1987. The Professional Karate Association named him the best bantamweight in the world, and he won numerous...
    11 KB (1,263 words) - 03:14, 13 April 2024
  • eclectic style of knockdown karate, founded by Yoshiji Soeno. Established in 1978, its governing body is the World Karate Association Shidokan, with its headquarters...
    6 KB (649 words) - 05:31, 15 April 2024
  • Benoît is a professional light-heavyweight French kickboxer who is a former two-time world champion of the International Sport Karate Association and World...
    5 KB (496 words) - 13:08, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gichin Funakoshi
    became honorary head of the Japan Karate Association upon its establishment in 1949. In addition to being a karate master, Funakoshi was an avid poet...
    15 KB (1,523 words) - 22:44, 29 March 2024
  • Martin T. Buell (category Karate biography stubs)
    States. Buell was a commissioner for the Professional Karate Association, and a rating chairman for Karate Illustrated Magazine. Buell, who was of Irish...
    3 KB (295 words) - 03:56, 15 December 2023
  • Don Quine (born 1938), American actor and writer, founder of Professional Karate Association Edgar Quine (born 1934), Manx politician John Quine (1857-1940)...
    913 bytes (137 words) - 16:58, 10 September 2021