It's a great martial art that has been bastardized and commercialized the world over. In the US, 90% of the gyms are scams, but the ones that teach real karate are great. There are many different types of karate, some for self-defense, others for competition. In a fight between a boxer and a karateka, it's depends on the fighter more than the style.

Good martial arts if you are into all that karate is only to be used for defence bullshit....other than that its not that effective unless you are Lyoto Machida.

Karate for a fight: No

Karate for a competition:yes

Karate to get your confidence boost up: Nope

MMA fan get the **** outta here. A lot of successful mma fighters know Karate.

Karate fighters would kick your ***!!!

go find a black belt in karate and do Bone conditioning with him and see how your bones feel afterwards lol.

It's the Dane Cook of martial arts.

Listen to the colonel. He's a very wise man.

Boring spectator sport.

It is a good martiol art.It is good for your health.if you can work hard you can win..