Firstly, I like your avatar, Dio is the man.
Secondly, I'm glad too see this pop back up again, I read it back in my lurking days. While it may sound like I'm making a jab at karate when I say this, I do find it interesting how many karate black belts in MMA don't really seem to use much karate in their style at all. While you get the Machida's and Gunnar Nelson's and of course Kyoji Horiguchi who really look like they're doing karate, you then later find out that Bigfoot Silva is a shotokan black belt.
I'm always really impressed when guys still look like they're doing karate, especially when it's that more side on type of karate that doesn't just look like kickboxing. I'm not a karate guy myself, but it's always really cool to see the movement of some of the more "karate" guys out there actually get pulled off in a real fight.