Batosai Imora

styles make fighters, thats true, and your training and skills make up for a lot of it too, many unpredictable things occur in a fight.

a good way of being effective as you can be, is to throw away styles and limitation, learn as much as you can a bout all areas of combat and not just one, the body, mind , and spirit must be trained together as one, this is a way of being as effective as you can be

its not always the stlye, but the fighter and his level of training, garuntee you that some one like mike tyson , dont let the man fool you is a very dangerous man even at his age will beat the living sh!t out of any karate fighter you pit him against, why because of his training, when he trains he is ready to tear you head off, many martial artists dont train properly or to the intensity most boxers train to period.

If you really want to defend yourself well and not have to take forever on "mastering" anything learn how to box its a great martial art and if learn how to move properly , bob and weave and slipping punches you can easily defeat an average martial artist without too much difficulty its hard to learn at first but after a while its cake learning how to streetfight aint a bad idea either to add with boxing

In my opinion boxing and or street fighting aint bad to start with then work on kicking and so on