Lol you compare a SMW boxer to a Super heavyweight kickboxer, especially since boxing is far from Ghita´s strongest aspects I don´t see the similarities. Oh wait they´re both from Romania, sorry this fact just justified this thread atsch
atsch my fault how could I overlook that. Do you know if they are twins? The evidences are irrefutable :think
The problem with kickboxing (AFAIK) and other marshall arts competitions, is that they have to impose certain restrictions so that the fighters don't actually kill each other. Those restrictions basically ruin the thing. A true MA fighter (in the real world) will go for the "kill" as soon as possible. You don't take any chances, you go for the knees, the larynx, the nuts..... maybe a kick to the head. - Then you get the hell out of there. The competitions have nothing at all to do with the reality of these arts. It's stupid.
Kickboxer wins. Give a boxer 6months-year to train kickboxing defense and it'll be a much more intriguing match. I've done both and I was a much better boxer than the kickboxers, however not even know the basics in how to defend against leg kicks meant I was disabled from start. After 3months and learning basic defense, I didn't really need to learn to kick, just needed to learn to defend.
Badr hari was supposed to transition to boxing, but after like 3 sparring sessions he decided to go back to kickboxing
ive never flipped channels on my tv and seen a kickboxing match on....the million channels i have these days and not once. nor have i ever heard the name of one kickboxing champion on any sports channel or discussion. kickboxing sucks apparently
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVqve-TS_nI&feature=related[/ame] Melvin's a pretty ferocious offensive fighter [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdVw3ks44o&feature=related[/ame] Kicks like being hit with a metal pole.
I love me any combat sport and for any one looking the best kick Boxing tourney is the K1 GP. but yea boxing > kickboxing
to the guy who compared overeem to tyson, come on man, reem is fairly slow, his chin is not great, and his defense is also nothing special, more like a giant lower level arthur abraham with a hell of alot of steroids in his system anyway, boxer vs kickboxer depends under what rules
I realise more than most Muay Thai and Kickboxing are different very different but to most ignorant boxing fans it seems they are termed one and the same. Not trying to critize you but as a pretty experienced Muay Thai boxer who also supplemented with alot of boxing, boxing just doesn't have enough to cope if you are dealing with a guy who really knows how to throw straight knees a la Muay Thai. The lead knee counter is kryptonite to a boxer, it's quick, more powerful than a punch and the boxer dosen't see it coming or know how to defend against it. Combine this with everytime you try to jump out of range you are smashed with a lowkick to your lead leg where boxers tend to put at least 50% of body weight it becomes pretty tough for a boxer. Throw in everytime a boxer instinctivly dips low in defense he falls onto a knee or comes close gets pulled into a clinch, pummled with knees then relesed and hit with a quick elbow on the break life becomes even harder for the boxer. This aside from pummlings at distance from powerful round kicks that the boxer will incorrectly block with his arms............ Shall I go on? :huh I guess you've never heard of Thailand huh!. 60,000 pro fighters on the most competitive fight circuit in the world fighting as and in a pro style as young as 7 or 8 having over 60 pro bouts by time they are 14 or 15 and finishing their careers with over 200 fights in many cases. Mismatches are very rare and knock outs not the norm becuase the breadth and depth in quality of fighters is so high. Training twice a day 6 days a week with very few breaks over the year for years at a time, makes guys like Floyd who total 50 or so fights and fight maybe twice ayear if your lucky look like novices. The quality is so bad in the States becuse when they got into kickboxing in the 70s it was basically a mixture of boxing and karate that is worthless compared to Muay Thai. The Americans were late to the Muay Thai party and tend not take to it too well although I'm aware things are changing, and improvemet is coming.
He still is, he just wants to finish his career with the Grand Prix title. It takes time to unlearn things from MT/ kickboxing and then apply new techiques onto the old readjusted base. For some guys it's easier than others. W'll see with Hari.
