Back in 2012 I created a thread called
"30 Successful Karate Fighters in MMA" (http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/30-successful-karate-fighters-mma.1040386/), later renamed to
"100+ Karate Fighters in MMA" as the list grew. The thread got quite popular (50 pages of replies) but sadly it was lost during the forum migration.
Back then it had drawn some criticism for listing fighters whose experience in Karate was rather insignificant - which I now admit was justified. So instead of simply re-posting the old thread I have filtered out the rubbish and retained only cold facts:
MMA fighters who legitimately hold black belts in Karate. No bias, no opinions, just a complete and comprehensive list.
The list is sorted by fighter
NAMES in alphabetical order along with their corresponding
STYLE and
DAN rank.
- Style "Sport" is used as an umbrella term for all kinds of sports / freestyle Karate.
- Style "unknown" is used when my source states "Karate" without mentioning the exact style and I can't find any indication of the style.
- DAN rank "1?" is used when my source states "black belt" without mentioning the exact rank.
New fighters are added periodically with a separate post describing their background and rank along with a highlight video.
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