The only answer is Neil Grove.
HighVoltage - How can you forget Pat Miletich ?? He has an extensive Karate background.
I didnt make this list, i found it online. Pat told me a few wks ago that Machida and Karate was a FLASH IN THE PAN type deal and to stick to boxing and wrestling, haha. He obviously doesnt believe in it.
Pandanus - The only answer is Neil Grove.
I opted not to test Mike C Karate against Neil Grove Karate in our UFC fight. Maybe because he was 6f6 6 and 280 lbs haha. His fists were bigger than my head.
Fast Pitch - Good stuff Mike. I love traditional Karate too, and it definitely works if trained correctly.
I very much agree with this post!
All of those guys including machida crosstrain significantly with kickboxing, muaythai and boxing. The people that believe that any of those practitionersrepresent pure karate with no modifications from the other arts mentioned just do not understand history or what karate consisted of when it was first devised. 
Newaza freak - All of those guys including machida crosstrain significantly with kickboxing, muaythai and boxing. The people that believe that any of those practitionersrepresent pure karate with no modifications from the other arts mentioned just do not understand history or what karate consisted of when it was first devised.
Thats true and Demian Maia is stil a BJJ guy and Randy Couture will always be a wrestler. It goes without saying that everyone in MMA cross trains today. That in no way changes where they came from.
I'm pretty sure Ryan Jimmo had a karate background too
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I like to give credit to the actual techniques used in fights and label them to the respective arts which deserve the credit instead of just referring to the fighters as being strictly a karate fighter or a kickboxer for example.
when chuck liddel or GSP throw a devastating left hook in the fashion that they throw it,most people like to give the credit to karate but dont realize sometimes that the fighter himself or the particualr art itself had to crosstrain in another art inorder to develop or make this this sort of punch effective.
The same can be said about kyokushin guys who know how to deal with leg kicks and others thinking that they know how to deal with it becasue of karate itself. The truth is that the art of kyokushin crosstrained in muaythai during its initial history and developed this awareness of leg kicks.
Machida on the other hand can make more defnitie connections with some of his techniques and some of the original karate techniques first devised. I believe in giving credit to the actual moves or techniques used in fights and classifying where they came from more than just simply giving credit to karate for everything a figther does just because he trained karate originally.
when I see demian maia do a nice siwtch back i like to give credit to his wrestling training and how much he has been working on his wrestling .same goes with his kickboxing or boxing. Give credit where credit is due that is all I am saying.
Dennis Siver
Gunner nelson. Watch his fights, very machida like (stand up ways)
Newaza freak - I like to give credit to the actual techniques used in fights and label them to the respective arts which deserve the credit instead of just referring to the fighters as being strictly a karate fighter or a kickboxer for example.
when chuck liddel or GSP throw a devastating left hook in the fashion that they throw it,most people like to give the credit to karate but dont realize sometimes that the fighter himself or the particualr art itself had to crosstrain in another art inorder to develop or make this this sort of punch effective.
The same can be said about kyokushin guys who know how to deal with leg kicks and others thinking that they know how to deal with it becasue of karate itself. The truth is that the art of kyokushin crosstrained in muaythai during its initial history and developed this awareness of leg kicks.
Machida on the other hand can make more defnitie connections with some of his techniques and some of the original karate techniques first devised. I believe in giving credit to the actual moves or techniques used in fights and classifying where they came from more than just simply giving credit to karate for everything a figther does just because he trained karate originally.
when I see demian maia do a nice siwtch back i like to give credit to his wrestling training and how much he has been working on his wrestling .same goes with his kickboxing or boxing. Give credit where credit is due that is all I am saying.
Thats the great thing, you CAN do that and think how you want. Doesnt mean you are right but to each his own.
If TKD is a form of Karate, you could add Anderson Silva to the list.
MIKE CIESNOLEVICZ -Newaza freak - All of those guys including machida crosstrain significantly with kickboxing, muaythai and boxing. The people that believe that any of those practitionersrepresent pure karate with no modifications from the other arts mentioned just do not understand history or what karate consisted of when it was first devised.
Thats true and Demian Maia is stil a BJJ guy and Randy Couture will always be a wrestler. It goes without saying that everyone in MMA cross trains today. That in no way changes where they came from.
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MIKE CIESNOLEVICZ -Newaza freak - All of those guys including machida crosstrain significantly with kickboxing, muaythai and boxing. The people that believe that any of those practitionersrepresent pure karate with no modifications from the other arts mentioned just do not understand history or what karate consisted of when it was first devised. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
Thats true and Demian Maia is stil a BJJ guy and Randy Couture will always be a wrestler. It goes without saying that everyone in MMA cross trains today. That in no way changes where they came from.
Even boxers and kickboxers must tweek their techniques to MMA though i do agree that karate guys normally would have to adapt their techs more.
And also agree that someone like Machida uses more of a "pure" karate techs than some of the others. Kikuno is another guy that still seems to fight very much like his kyokushin style would indicate (esp since his best techique is the cresent kick).
Also, what about Sakurai? His striking i believe is from Shootboxing and that has karate roots iirc as does a lot of striking in Japan.
Karate is also a root style of Dutch kickboxing if im not mistaken.
Monsieur Candie - Machida
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Newaza freak -
The same can be said about kyokushin guys who know how to deal with leg kicks and others thinking that they know how to deal with it becasue of karate itself. The truth is that the art of kyokushin crosstrained in muaythai during its initial history and developed this awareness of leg kicks.
So Kyokushin cross trained with MT, Dutch kickboxing has MT and karate roots and BJJ is an off shoot of judo, all wrestlers and BJJers in MMA pretty much cross train vice versa....
Newaza freak - All of those guys including machida crosstrain significantly with kickboxing, muaythai and boxing. The people that believe that any of those practitionersrepresent pure karate with no modifications from the other arts mentioned just do not understand history or what karate consisted of when it was first devised. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
There is no style that exists in MMA in its "pure" form without modification or like BJJ, has modified itself to MMA over time, so while you have a valid point, since all styles must be tweeked, though to various degrees, its not fair to only hold this modification/cross train standard to karate imo.
roy nelson