Good looking out with the vids. But correct me if i'm wrong...doesn't this just prove if a kickboxer was to step into a boxer's field of just boxing that the boxer would be better? I always thought that was obvious and the main argument would have centred around the issue of both arts against eachother?
A kick boxer/thai boxer who is just boxing is being restricted of their other weapons, thus stepping into the comfort zone of a boxer to begin with?
So it would be like a boxer having a boxing rules fight with an MMA fighter...then beating the MMA fighter leading people to conclude that boxing must be better than MMA (this is just an example)
While neither should like win in their opponenets sport, the boxer has the better chance. Since MMA or kickboxing both incorporate boxing the boxer has the edge over them in this aspect. If you place an MMA or kickboxer in a boxing match they have NOTHING over the boxer.
Good point. But to be honest a kick boxer/thai boxer can easily go a round without allowing a boxer to get near enough to land land a punch from proper use of kicking techniques. So this kind of takes away the "better chance".
And yea your completely right that any person from whatever fighting style they may come from will have nothing over a boxer in a BOXING match as has been mentioned earlier. Same way a boxer would have nothing over the local drunk in a drinking competition lol
While on the topic of boxing effects, I read somewhere that it still has not been proven that boxing headguards used by amateurs is an effective enough protection against brain damage. How much protection do they actually offer then?