Boxing styles

[Warrior189]

Dose anyone know of any more boxing martial arts? Behinds the basic ones (kickboxing n thai boxing).

[white devil]

yes..there is french savate who looks alot like muay thai..it reminds me alot of jeetkunedo based fighting..maybe because jkd is inspired from it..go read about it..theres also a vietnamese art called qwan ki do..i dont know much about it but my brother says it looks like muay thai too!

[muaythaiguy15]

Chinese boxing and drunken boxing? Not too sure what theyre like besides BS video games. Devil is right, Savate is nasty. You wear shoes during it too. It was a special on FIT tv. Good stuff.

[B.Y.O.B.]

Are those the only ones?

[Shard]

Well, Those aren't exactly "styles" of boxing as you'd call them. To the chinese, the word for boxing means "to punch" or " to fight". Thats why you have mantis boxing etc etc but they still use legs. I wouldn't call kickboxing boxing just because the word boxing is there. Like calling Mcdonalds, Food.

In the Realm of boxing there are a few "different" styles although they are slight variations of the Orthadox stance. Unlike TMAs where a different style is a totally different jump from each "style".
In boxing, theres a "peek-a-boo" stance, A crouched stance, X-guard stance and a few others i forgot. But they aren't so much styles as they are different tatics/methods.

[JayR8460]

i completely agree with shard on boxing's "peek-a-boo, crouched, x-gaurd, and a few others not being so much as styles but as in tactics, i believe to be an all around good boxer one needs to know all these tactics, to successfully compete against any different tactic your opponent maybe using, as far as warrior189, i dont understand the question really, maybe you are interested in boxing as in ring combat? or competitive Martial arts?

[danfaggella]

Chinese boxing is just what westerners called it, and MT/kickboxing/savate/ect... aren't "boxing," they are martial diciplines or sport of thier own. Western boxing does have different "styles" but like people are sayin it is simply a deviation in stance and tactics. For example, many mexican boxers are very sneaky and illusive, that could be considered thier "style."