IPON

I think I agree with most of what you are saying but polcat is right in that kickboxing evolved from full contact karate and I can tell you from experience the "boxing" from kick boxers is generally poor. Now of course I mean in relation to boxers, but of course far better than a person not used to fighting or boxing. If I were to choose I would take a competent boxer over a kick boxer any day. Just my opinion from my experience.

I think what polecat was trying to say was that kickboxing wasn't borne from the street (battle field) like say MT, FMA or jujutsu etc. it was created strictly for competition in the ring. So it can't technically be considered a "street style". But as Garland stated any style trained for combat (street) application will be effective Wrestling, Boxing etc.



Polecat: I do not study MT, but from what I understand the term "competition" is probably very much an understatement. There was alot of broken bones and blood coming from these competitions in the early days

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