2006-10-24 10:50:28 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
Not sure ... but the toughest man on the planet is Fedor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=B_rUKlRXUDQ
2006-10-24 11:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by bluegrazzboy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How does anyone really know. You only hear about the people you see on TV in Magazines. There could be some guy somewhere training on top of a mountain by himself that can beat them all. Now maybe if you said who is the best known Martial artist or who is the best on TV or in the movies then you might be able to get somewhat of a Answer. Really you don't think ther eis someone training right now who can beat all of these guys mentioned who just doesn't want to be famous and is confident in his own skills that they don't have to show the whole world to feel good about themselves.
2006-10-25 04:01:11 · answer #2 · answered by SuperSoldierGIJOE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Impossible to answer as I have not seen and been able to rate every martial artist in the world.
How do you rate different forms of different styles? an excellent practitioner of one style would beat an average practitioner of another style, so you cannot say that it would be a Karate or MMA or Judo or JuJitsiu or a taiji person. Personally, from the years of research I have done into martial arts in general, it is highly unlikely to be anyone in films or sport. so the UFC champions and Jet Li would be seriously owned by some of the serious practitioners. By serious I mean some of the experts in India and China. and some of the other serious internal practitioners who have travelled and trained hard, without ego, with these people and then tested themselves with it in special ops or personal protection in some of the most dangerous places on earth.
I train in a martial way and I believe that I am pretty good at what I do, but I would not live more than a second (and I mean live) against some of these people.
There are elderly women in China that could rip Jet Li a new one and he knows it. The way these people generate energy and anticipate their opponent seems to defy the laws of physics and has to been seen to be believed, and still it is difficult to believe.
So in answer to your question, stop believeing the hype of the heavily coreographed movies and enjoy the UFC matches for what they are: Two highly skilled atheletes trying to hurt each other for your entertainment.
Real martial artists of the calibre of the world's best do not train to fight for 10 or 15 minutes, they train to fight for a few seconds and that fight ends in incapacitation or death.
You cannot have competitions for that kind of martial art and it happens too quickly to be an effective form of entertainment in movies.
The people themselves tend to be devoid of ego, are very humble and kind and have no desire for fame or fortune, so unless you go looking for them, you are not going to know they exist.
2006-10-24 22:41:16 · answer #3 · answered by kenhallonthenet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now a days, I can't say the best but I'll try to answer the best "group" of Martial artists:
From movies (but very skillful): Tony Jaa, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee
From history (but still well known today and considered the "best" in his/her field): Ticky Donovan OBE, Sensei Funakoshi, Sensei Ohtsuka, Professor Jigoro Kano, Sensei Kanazawa, Sensei Sahota and there's alot more...
2006-10-24 20:39:15 · answer #4 · answered by shotokan1978 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you have not given a criteria, I'm going to say best fighter with proven skill (not all martial arts share honor or virtues or such, but fighting is he thing they have in common). In that case, I'd say Fedor. However, I think Mas Oyama was the greatest of all time.
2006-10-24 15:14:38 · answer #5 · answered by MBG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chuck Norris
2006-10-24 10:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by punk_rebel88 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best martial artists are people you've never heard of. They may be teaching in small studios, they may be in remote monasteries but they aren't making movies or fighting in a cage.
2006-10-24 14:45:29 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ghangis Kahn
2006-10-26 05:42:08 · answer #8 · answered by Ask Me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Georges St-Pierre, pound for pound. He's quick, very strong, and aggressive. A very well rounded fighter. Utilizes Kyokushin karate, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and extraordinary conditioning. A real machine.
2006-10-24 18:16:38 · answer #9 · answered by standinghampton11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hong Kong Phooy!
Chuck Lee or Bruce Norris arent the best now MAYBE back then but not now.
2006-10-24 17:27:40 · answer #10 · answered by DyrtByrd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no best martial artist. There is only the best in itself.
2006-10-24 18:17:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋