Martial Greats

**callum828** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 8:01am

If Bruce Lee gets in there then the author isn't doing his job properly.

But +1 for Kano.

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 8:57am

Frankly if you don't have a small statue of Kano on your car dashboard like an Indian taxi driver in an Bruce Willis film then you aren't really a proper human being. Having a weird mat of lumpy wooden beads draped over you seat is optional though.

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 9:11am

Originally Posted by judoka_uk

Frankly if you don't have a small statue of Kano on your car dashboard like an Indian taxi driver in an Bruce Willis film then you aren't really a proper human being. Having a weird mat of lumpy wooden beads draped over you seat is optional though.

So, if you have a crash and he ends up sticking out of your eye socket...?

Is that ippon?

Edit: as to the subject of the thread - I reckon that those who will be remembered by history will be those whose followers have the biggest mouths. Whether they were good or not is a secondary issue...

**Holy Moment** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 9:39am

Glacier.

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 9:50am

Originally Posted by Holy Moment

Glacier.

Very disappointed that he didn't finish that up with ripping his opponent's spine out.

**judoist** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 2:15pm

I nominate Josh Koscheck and Brock Lesnar for leaving an irreversable mark on MMA.

**senseipookie** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 3:06pm

How about Matsumura and Itosu

And you have to include Funakoshi, although the unintended consequences of him bringing karate to Japan was the gradual decline into sport krotty and the spiral downwards to XMA. But he still had a big effect overall, both good and bad.

**wetware** · Posted On: 2/06/2011 3:31pm

Originally Posted by judoist

I nominate Josh Koscheck and Brock Lesnar for leaving an irreversable mark on MMA.

Wait, what? Which mark is that? The introduction of the Heel character concept to MMA? Because I can't think of anything else that someone didn't do better earlier.

(I actually do want to know, by the way.)