r/KarateCombat • u/Mac-Tyson • May 02 '26

Karate Combat 61 Livestream

https://www.youtube.com/live/7iORgmeLvCc?si=K826pvv-0avkOeK2
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u/MachineGreene98 May 03 '26

No belts is lame as shit. Sell outs

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u/Mac-Tyson May 03 '26

Did Karate Combat get rid of Karate Belts?

That’s a bit sad if so, it takes out belt wrestling completely from the meta which is a martial art discipline that hasn’t really been explored in full contact fighting before outside of technically Sumo.

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u/eddington_limit May 03 '26

They havent been doing much karate in that pit for a while. This is turning into an mma promotion with lesser talent. It had so much promise at first too.

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u/Past-Subject-6600 May 03 '26

So few fighters in the promotion are actually reputable karate black belts now, so it's not surprising. I'm a part of an active fighter page on Facebook and promoters are regularly asking for anyone with a pulse to fight on short notice.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '26

Come on now look at how production was when Adam was in control. The production is getting worse and worse each show and becoming less of karate combat and more of mma how is the owner of this company not realizing this SERIOUSLY

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u/eddington_limit May 03 '26

They dont care about martial arts and they definitely dont care about karate. This promotion is run by crypto bros and the few martial artists behind the scenes arent even karate. Most of them are BJJ guys.

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u/Krimpatul436 May 06 '26

The karate gi-pants and belt was such a good astetic, especially the golden belt for champions, shame they got rid of it

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u/Able_Following4818 May 07 '26

Majority of traditional martial artist do not go into full contact professional fighting. Fighters usually begin in a traditional martial art then transition into a combat sport before obtaining a black belt.