training in one style, competing in another

[Tom Yum]

Hey guys, I've noticed that many amateur kickboxers eventually become boxers and that many amateur boxers become kickboxers. Lucia Rijker was primarily fighting in MT and then switched over to boxing. I guess the payroll had something to do with it, but she has proved equally successfull at both. In the 80's many boxers laughed at the karate guys who were fighting in kickboxing, learned how to throw a few kicks and then Ko'd the lot of them.

Have any of you trained in one style and then went on to compete in another? For example you wrestled in High school and then took an interest in judo at college or start off as a boxer and eventually fight in MT.

[darrianation]

Hey Tom it was kind of like that for me. In the early 80’s I trained in MT but since it was next to impossible to get fights most of us fought in kickboxing or full contact karate. The kickboxing was close because amateur MT and kickboxing wasn’t all that different, but the karate was little awkward. However I came to MT after karate so it wasn’t as difficult of a transition for me as it was for some others.

Just for shits and giggles and for something to do, I would do point karate, now that was hard. The MT gym to point karate, I was disqualified a couple of times But I had fun!