Combattants MMA — Black Lions Fighting Academy

Ethiopian anti-fascist resistance movement

The Black Lions were an anti-fascist movement formed to fight against Fascist Italy during the occupation of the Ethiopian Empire as part of the greater Arbegnoch resistance. The Black Lions dominated the early resistance movement in Ethiopia. Members of the Black Lions included students from the Holeta Military Academy and foreign-educated Ethiopians. They were most notably responsible for a massacre of Italian airmen at the Lechemti massacre on 26 June 1936.