http://www.livevideo.com/video/1A771FA64A564C9299D1A807A8176E52/the-dragon-lyoto -machida-by.aspx

that ladies and gentleman is the real karate kid.

I'm a big fan.

Fantastic figther!

Some of the best Muay Thai skills I have seen in MMA, compared to most of the sorry half assed wannabe Muay Thai skills displayed by most MMA fighters. Looks like he's done a lot of training in Thailand.

Actually, I don't think Machida has ever practiced Muay Thai, his background is in Shotokan Karate, Sumo and BJJ,

Sumo???lol is that even classified as a style?

Sumo is the "style" that was the progenitor of Jujutsu.

People who are trained in Karate, Kung-fu, Aikido, or Tae kwon do, can't win fights, everybody knows that...

Oh wait, you mean if they train their stuff against resistance it will work also, who would have thunk it??!

I thunk..

Tim, he did train in Thailand for awhile.

Along with Sumo, he trained wrestling in Japen and wrestling with the RAW team (Real American Wrestling).

Yet, he is just being Machida.

He's one of my favorite fighters.

Still, his core is 100% karate!!

he trained real american wrestling with the raw is war team? lol.

Enforcer, did you have to look up 'progenitor' too?

Machida has said that he has trained other styles briefly in order to adapt his karate to face that kind of figthers. Machida's win will hopefully bring more attention to traditional MA, there is a wealth of techniques still waiting to be used in MMA and CMA has tons of them.

I agree, William!

There is no doubt in my mind that shotokan is no joke. I have trained and sparred and have had my ass handed to me on a platter by on or two in my earlier days.
They are awesome technicians. they are very strategical fighters.

That was an awesome KO. Plus one for the Karate!

His core is about 78% Karaty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG0qpIULumw

i used to train w/ full contact karate (sabaki rules) guys in seattle to get ready for sanshou cuz all the wing chun guys were worthless.

those guys kick and punch so ••••••• hard,and they had decent grappling defense (awesome base hard to knock down) from what little judo/jiu jitsu they learned.

I think Machida's success shows that as Chris said, traditional skills can be effective in the MMA ring when trained properly, and integrated with sound grappling skills.

A Shen Wu representative is next!

Years ago, I had a JKD instructor tell me, "Any style is effective...if also trained with kickboxing and grappling".


Yet, the bottomline is this is about Lyoto Machida's success as an individual. There have been many others with a traditional background and kickboxing/grappling, yet they failed.

there have also been those with kickboxing/judo/modernm backgrounds that failed on the streets being dominant like me.

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/?go=forum_framed.posts&forum=1&thread=1193062&pa ge=1&pc=54

lol, so when is xingyi gonna step up?

My students have a website for real Machida fans:

http://www.geijitsu.com/