Enough of which art is better already. And anyway, how many streetfights are there that everyone is always worried about street effectiveness?
If you want a martial art with some street cred then go move to a really bad part of town, join a gang, get beat into the gang, go get into fights with the gang. Get arrested, go through the penal system, get ass raped in prison, learn 52 Blocks or something and pump lots of iron, come out and you'll be a real badass. Then you won't have to worry about is my art effective on the street. You will be the street.
In the meantime just train in whatever you enjoy the most because statistics argue that it is unlikely most Americans will actually get into street fights. And Sanshou and Muay Thai are both good. Although I'd argue the comparison is not really accurate as the similarities of the two arts are superficial. MT is a subset of the traditional Thai arts, hence, a lot of the original grappling, weapons, etc. have been removed. Sanshou, though a modern, derived art, drew upon the whole of Chinese martial arts, hence it focuses on more ranges.
Btw Lizard, MT has some takedowns, there just aren't as many as SS (they're more along the lines of sweeps).
And that's my rant for today.
Until I see another silly post of course.