Kickboxing vs. Boxing

[latverian31]

Adam is correct. It depends on the individual person. If you take a kickboxer with a savy mind for fighting and is calm in the midddle of an exchange against a boxer of a yr or so that is still tense or scared and thinks to much then the kickboxer. and vise verca of course.

If both were equally skilled. I go with the boxer every time. Kick boxers (most anyways...I do not like to speak in absolutes) have poor punching technique and footwork cause their weight is managed different so they can get off kicks with speed etc..etc and even the late Bruce lee said kicking should never be abpve the waist and the master of the hands will always come out on top (this was his real life views on fighting not what you see in his movies.

Now in fairness to the martial art world on the street would a boxer beat someone like hoyce gracie or some other UFC champs.....more than likely not. We boxers train to fight within a set of rules...no elbows, no knees, hitting certain areas. It is 2nd nature for those guys. Unless a good boxer lands a good shot to the jaw and kncoks him out before he takes you to the ground then its all over.

As Adam said though it is usless to debate cause there are so many variables involved.

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[Zelley]

It depends on the skill of the individual any many other factors.

However, it is my view that many kickboxers don't have good punching skills,
If you can't punch, then kicks are not much use in close quarters or at long range.