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The 20 Greatest Kyokushin Karate Fighters of All Time was first published by Liver Kick in 2013, with #20-17. This past year I continued the list for them #16 – 13. Due to time commitments I wasn’t able to complete the list, until now. However, I am posting the remainder of the list here on my own blog.

As mentioned in the first instalment, Kyokushin Karate was founded my Masutatsu “Mas” Oyama, and considered to be the first and most influential style of full contact karate, and one of the most hard-hitting, brutal, and intense forms of organized combat in the world. A style that has spawn fighters the likes of Andy Hug, Sam Greco and Georges St. Pierre, to name just a few. But aside from the big name kickboxers and MMA stars there lays an array of combat sports athletes whose neither names nor accomplishments often see the light of day.

As stated before, this is by no means the definitive list, and I am sure there are names missing, but I have done my best to complete the list with fighters based mainly on achievement, quality of competition and technical skill. The list is in no particular order, as it’s next to impossible to select one fighter over another, and further, it is something that no one would agree on. But I am sure we can all agree that the names on this list

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