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With all of the martial artists through history, who do you think most repersents the art they used to fight? I'll give you my list and you can make your own list.

Tang Soo Do - Chuck Norris
Judo - Masahiko Kimura
Gracie Jiu Jitsu - Royce Gracie
Boxing - Mike Tyson
Wing Chun - Bruce Lee (also Jeet Kune Do repersenitive)
Muay Thai - Ramon Dekkers
Kickboxing - Don Wilson
Wushu - Jet Li
Hapkido - Choi Yong Sul
Wrestling (Freestyle or Greco Roman) - Dan Severn
Shootfighting - Ken Shamrock

Boxing- Mohammed Ali or Jack Johnson
Hapkido- Jackie Chan

I never said I that I wouldn't label it as Martial Art, for sure that is. I'd like to label it more of a combative sport instead. It has Martial aspects, but I don't know.
As for Mas...I think he'd be perfect if we were using skill as a basis for this. Gichin Funakoshi would definately work, but I just think Mas is more suited for the challenge, since he was a badass, and made a style of Karate that hasn't been completely watered down...yet. (No offense to the practioners of watered down and non-watered down Karate.)

You are not grasping the point. I said (this means my opinion) that I think Kickboxing should be labeled as a combative sport. Here's my reasoning, it sprang up from full contact Karate tournaments (it came from competition), and stayed inside the boundries of competition. This does NOT mean that you can't apply Kickboxing to beating the crap out of someone during a real situation (that's far from what I'm saying). I'm just saying that Martial Arts were created killing originally, NOT sporting events (nothing against sporting events), and Kickboxing is a sport by it's origin. Again, I am going to say that my saying that Kickboxing should be labeled as a combative sport.