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It certainly convinced me that the clear answer is martial artist, and it's not even close.

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Your post is not really convincing at all. It boils down to:
"Why are traditional arts the best?"
"Because"
"Because why?"
"Because because"

The "asian martial arts" category is really tough to nail down. There are many, many style and stylists. They don't always stay with their primary art and become de facto MMAists. And it's basically impossible to point out who is the best, where with MMA, we have rough ideas based on previous matches that are done in public.

Perhaps for the purposes of the discussion, we should limit the range for "asian martial artist" to known martial artists, not possible women in China who can snap people in half. That may not be fair to that category, but it's also not fair to try and end the argument with "there are deadly people in China/Japan/India".