Category talk:Mixed martial arts styles

What is the point of Category:Mixed Martial Arts Styles?

Mixed martial arts implies any mixing of various martial arts. While some have been used more often than others (BJJ, Muay Thai, Boxing, Wrestling, etc), people claiming to use ninjitsu, aikido, taekwondo, kung fu, etc. have all competed in MMA events. This category will eventually be a list of all martial arts known.--Stvfetterly (talk) 12:49, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The point is that there a number of traditional styles that form the base of mixed martial arts training. While people may claim that their styles are ninjitsu, kung fu, thugjitsu, etc. people don't have belts or traditional training in those disciplines. People are, however, black belts in ju-jitsu, karate, judo or have competed in collegiate or Olympic level-wrestling. Most of the styles that are currently listed in this category come directly from the mixed martial arts page. I don't see any reason for this category to be populated by many more styles than are listed there now. Feel free to keep this discussion going on the category talk page if you wish, but I see no reason why the current categorization scheme is inappropriate. Osubuckeyeguy (talk) 03:19, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hardee Merritt is a 4th degree black belt in Ninjitsu and competes in MMA
Daiju Takase, Akebono, and Telia Tuli have all used Sumo wrestling in MMA competition
Rik Ellis competes in MMA and has a black belt in Aikido
Chuck Liddell has a black belt in Koei-Kan Karate and a 5th degree black belt in Kenpo Karate
Cung Le was voted 2007 Kung Fu artist of the year and has competed in Kung Fu tournaments and has traditional training in it--Stvfetterly (talk) 13:13, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sumo is already listed. You are welcome to add other styles if you wish. Certainly, criteria for inclusion could be developed so that a single fighter who uses a style wouldn't necessarily get it added to the list. Hardee Merritt and Rik Ellis don't have their own pages, so I'm not sure how notable their styles would be for this category. Kyokushin kaikan karate is currently included, so one possibility would be to include karate more generally rather than listing its sub-forms. Cung Lee is primarily noted for being a Sanshou kickboxer, which is why Sanshou is already listed. Kung fu doesn't even have its own page, see Chinese martial arts and wushu might be a better way to describe his background, though I know of no other wushu competitors in MMA. Perhaps you want to take a stab a writing the lede for the page so that you feel like it is appropriately narrow. I still think that there aren't too many more styles that should be listed unless consensus is to list multiple forms of a broader discipline (like karate). Osubuckeyeguy (talk) 13:35, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]