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The sport of Karate uses punching, kicking, knees and elbows to incapacitate an adversary. Even if elbows and knees are less used and effectives than in Muay Thai fighting, Karate is a complete stand up style.

Karate is a really important form of fighting involved in MMA and is a big part of today fighting style. Before being incorporated to Mixed Martial Arts, it was employed to create Kickboxing.

To produce Kickboxing, they used the kicks of the Karate and replace the weak punches of Karate by boxing punches, that are much more effective.

There are lots of different forms of Karate: Kyokushin, Koei-Kan, Kempo, Shidokan. The Karate developed in much variety of fighting style, making it a Mixed Martial Arts sport even before the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The Shidokan Karate imply knockdowns with throws and some  grappling. In competition, they are allowed three seconds for clinching and five seconds on the ground in 2 minute round format.

Karate gets lots of mockeries in the MMA community due to the Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris fame and the brick breaking reputation this sport has.

It also gets parodied due to the infamous Fred Ettish fight that occurred at UFC 2 – No Way Out and his pathetic foetal defending position.

Keith Hackney, another Karate practitioner in early UFC got mainly involved into comedy fights. First with the American sumo wrestler Emmanuel Yarborough and later that same night against Joe Son and his balls blocking technic.

Nowadays, many important fighters have a strong Karate background. Chuck Liddell have Koei-Kan karate and Hawaiian Kempo-Karate as well as kickboxing backgrounds. Bas Rutten, Georges St Pierre, Semmy Schilt and Guy Meztger among many of them are known fighters to have studied Karate really seriously.

The rising star and lethal fighter Lyoto Machida is using Karate skills heavily in his stand up game. He is probably the most accomplished Karate player in MMA.

Machida is son of the Shotokan karate master Yoshizo Machida and began training in karate at the age of  4. He won the Pan American Karate tournament in 2001 and also trained in Sumo (!!) before starting to train in MMA.

Karate brought to MMA: The front, low, middle and high kicks and the samurai spirit that shows more respect to their opponent over ordinary MMA brawler.

Possible Damages:

• Knock out

• serious brain damage

• Broken bones: legs, ribs, and bones to the face.

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