* Yoko Gushiken ; Professional boxer.

* Akinobu Hiranaka ; Professional boxer.

* Katsuo Tokashiki ; Professional boxer.

* Alex Ramos raised in The Bronx, Professional boxer

Professional boxer Paoli in England, 1914

Hanley is also the uncle of British Professional boxer Jonathan Oakey.

* Professional boxer Nipper Pat Daly was born in Abercraf and lived there until the age of five.

In 1988 Dorsey became a Professional boxer.

Horton Smith of Detroit, a former president of the Professional Golfers Association, will receive the Ben Hogan Trophy for his comeback following a recent illness.

Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in Cuba and some former Soviet republics.

* Syracuse Blitz, former Professional Indoor Football League team

Professional football players include former Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler, linebacker Reggie Williams, three-time Pro Bowler Nick Lowery, quarterback Jeff Kemp, and Tennessee Titans tight end Casey Cramer.

Professional skaters may range from former Olympic and World champions who have ended their competitive career to skaters with little or no international competitive experience.

They were created by Chico Heat Professional Baseball LLC, with former supermarket entrepreneur Steve Nettleton and his wife Kathy serving as principal owners.

* Mike Young ( Joined Australia Cricket Team in 2001, a former Professional Baseball Player, Manager & Coach )

* The Alliance ( Hong Kong ), former name of Professional Forum, political group in Hong Kong

* Ryozo Kato, former Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2008, current Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball

* Nancy Benoit, former Professional wrestling manager

Sponsored by the Central City Business & Professional Women's Club, the Hall of Fame is located inside the Central City Public Library, 108 E. Broad Street and features a portrait and memorabilia gallery which includes former Governor Martha Layne Collins, Country & Western music giant Loretta Lynn, and local author, editorialist, historian, war correspondent for the Service Star and noted cultivator of roses Agnes S. Harralson.

* Bob Keller ( American Professional Wrestler ) Listed in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Top 500 Wrestlers 4 times, Former Host for American Pro Wrestlings Power Hour Agent and Manager for many former WCW and WWE Superstars ... Most Noted for teaming with Hagerstown Native Shane Heimburger ( Shadows ) to form the Team of The Mega Rockers

Professional wrestler Jimmy Valiant known as " The Boogie Woogie Man " and " Handsome " Jimmy Valiant and former Tennessee governor Isham G. Harris were both born " near " Tullahoma.

* Jack Spikes ( born 1937 ), former American collegiiate and Professional Football running back and placekicker

* Richmond Professional Institute, former college before being merged with MCV into Virginia Commonwealth University

Several former Beat players went on to play for the Atlanta Silverbacks Women in the W-League, and four -- Briana Scurry, Sharolta Nonen, Homare Sawa and Ifeoma Dieke -- played in Women's Professional Soccer.

* Professional Association of Teachers, the former name of the trade union Voice

Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a rookie first-baseman ( played by former Chicago White Sox player Frank Thomas ), and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Ernest " Ernie " " Big Hoss " Warlick ( born July 21, 1932 in Washington, D. C .) is a former tight end from North Carolina Central University who played American collegiate and Professional Football as well as Canadian Professional Football.

Gino Cappelletti ( born March 26, 1934 ) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player.

* Selim Canahuati – Former President of Liga Nacional de Futbol ( Honduras Professional Football Association ), former member of the Board of Directors of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ).

* 1997 Select League and the former American Professional Soccer League merged to form A-League under the USISL umbrella.

Larry Grantham ( born September 16, 1938 in Crystal Springs, Mississippi ) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player.

Coin collecting can become a competitive activity, as prompted by the recent emergence of PCGS ( Professional Coin Grading Service ) and NGC ( Numismatic Guarantee Corporation ) Registry Sets.

Headrick founded the Professional Disc Golf Association ( PDGA ), Disc Golf Association ( DGA ), and Recreational Disc Golf Association ( RDGA ) as governing bodies for professional, competitive amateur, and family-oriented play, respectively, and worked on standardizing the rules and the equipment for the quickly-growing sport.

Challenge ProMode Arena became the primary competitive mod for Quake III since the Cyberathlete Professional League announced CPMA as its basis for competition.

On July 26, 2006, Challenge Pro Mode Arena with VQ3 gameplay was chosen by Cyberathlete Professional League as the mod of choice for their tournament, making it the standard competitive mod for Quake III Arena.

The change to include continental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between Jack Nicklaus and the Earl of Derby, who was serving as the President of the Professional Golfers ' Association ; it was suggested by Nicklaus as a means to make the matches more competitive, since the Americans almost always won, often by lopsided margins.

This is just one of the many ways in which BC ’ s Professional Engineers and Professional Geoscientists maintain their competitive edge in today ’ s global marketplace.

Ebdon was only the second player to have made two competitive maximum 147 breaks in professional tournament play — these coming at the Strachan Professional and UK Championship, both in 1992.

Professional competitive wrestling is uncommon.

* Professional Regulation Commission The Professional Regulation Commission is the instrument of the Filipino people in securing for the nation a reliable, trustworthy and progressive system of developing professionals whose personal integrity and spiritual values are solid and respected, whose competencies are globally competitive, and whose commitment to serve the Filipino nation and the whole community is strong and steadfast.

The Professional and Amateur Pinball Association ( PAPA ) is an organization supporting the game of pinball as a recreational and competitive sport.