[NinjaKilla187]

Originally Posted by WatcH OuT

He's a kung fu dude ...

But I personally think TMA's are a good way to get started...

Now you see mostly just good well rounded athletes but they don't stand out in anything just good allround athletes...

If you for example were a good Thai-kickboxer, Karate or kungfu dude or wathever TMA, it's actually more entertaining and it gives them a trade mark as a very good stand up or let not forget a good grappler.

I love seeing guys as Lyotto bc they use their art, that most ppl here bash here on the forums and guys like Lyotto represent it like an effective combat sport...

Just like Nog his groundgame is just wonderfull to watch just like some other great grapplers who are know to pull out things you won't see from a regular well rounded fighter, like we call the new breed fighters of today...

I do see American fighters does have mostly their Wrestling as their main style but nothing like Coleman, Randlemann, etc...

I'm not sure Cung Le ever studied Kung Fu. He started out in TKD, was a high school and collegiate wrestler, then moved on to Shidokan and ISKA. Then he showed up in San Shou doing garden variety kickboxing and everyone started calling him a Kung Fu man.

[waikru101]

You can't call people Karate fighters when they have practiced other arts since there karate days far longer and more intensely then they did karate. That is why we say M.M.A fighters.
I'm not having a dig at you and I don't mean any offence but because Chuck done a little Karate he aint a Karate Practitioner.

[legshot420]

Looks like a good list, if you consider the familiarity of the fighters on the list.

[franz_grinder]

Originally Posted by waikru101

You can't call people Karate fighters when they have practiced other arts since there karate days far longer and more intensely then they did karate. That is why we say M.M.A fighters.
I'm not having a dig at you and I don't mean any offence but because Chuck done a little Karate he aint a Karate Practitioner.

I don't want to argue this point. Look at my posts - see that what your saying is crazy redundant. No one's trying to label. The article, more than anything, was written to educate the laymens of the effectivenes off the karate techniques that alot of great fighters display. These are karate techniques. I'm not saying these are 'karate fighters'. Hopefully you'll find a chance to read the article objectively in the future without languid presumptions.

[MMAftfw]

Yea that guy is a tool. waikru101 is probably one of the idiots that looks at MMA as boxing plus wrestling with an occasional high kick or knee. It seems from the people I know that MMA might be getting watered down. Every guy locally that can do an arm bar and a triangle and can throw a decent punch now thinks they are MMA fighters. Its kind of sad.

[Paedde]

Originally Posted by waikru101

I'm not having a dig at you and I don't mean any offence but because Chuck done a little Karate he aint a Karate Practitioner.

Maybe not, but if you watch closely he even chambers his punches (Hikite).
I believe that doesn't come from MMA training (without judging if it's right or wrong to chamber)

[SlowlyWeRot]

Fred Ettish

[franz_grinder]

Originally Posted by SlowlyWeRot

Fred Ettish

hahah Kieth Hackney as well.

[waikru101]

MMAFTFW. Harsh words, why call someone a tool who you don't even no.
only a coward insults over the safety of the net.
don't assume you know me or what i'm about as far as Martial Arts is concerned.
To Franz grinder,my apology I misread the article as I was without sleep for 18 hours.

[Vector_X]

yup all of those guys studied karate, but in all honesty I can't really see Chuck as the #1 fighter that uses karate because he is so one dimensional at times it hurts. Lets face it MMA blends quite a few MA's and just because a lot of these guys took some karate does not really make them Karate practitioners.