Even soccer and other dangerous stuff isn't like choking people.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine_choke
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_naked_choke
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_triangle_choke
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sode_guruma_jime
But when I think sports I think things like soccer, tennis, swimming, wrestling etc.
These things you bring up are very niche, and I don't understand their relevance to whether it's a good idea to use the law to make choking in pornography less visible.
Joints don't have that amount of forgiveness. If you over-apply a joint lock then the joint or bone or ligaments are damaged. Period. Literally no one has ever died in modern combat sports from a choke. No one. Zero. None. But there are plenty of deaths and traumatic injuries from other combat sport actions. The only way to accidentally kill someone with a choke is to hold it for multiple minutes while they are unconscious as was the case for Jordan Neely.
None of this comment has anything to do with choking in pornography.