You guys rooting for Ray Mercer tonight in K-1?

[pinaldino]

I haven't seen much of K-1 or know much about it.....other than kicking, what's so different about it? I mean, like the strategies and stuff that you guys are talkin about. I'd like to be enlightened on that.

At the beginnig, in the 90's K1 was a HW muay thai tournament (punch/kick/knee but elbows not allowed to avoid quick stoppage on cuts). Great fighters were competing and giving tremendous fights ,like ernesto hoost, peter aerts, lebanner, and many others....
Then it got so popular that money spoiled it completely (and competition with MMA tournaments to get the bigger audience) and we started to see washed up boxers like botha or steroid intake world champs like sapp invade it and then it started to be a joke, a circus displaying huge guys with only muscles but no technique, trying to cash in. and there is the result...thinking u can defeat a legitimate muay thai top KO artist just because u used to be a good boxer 10 years ago is just totally ****** and suicidal.
K1 used to be a great tournament of a true sport, now it's only ****.

[FrankJack]

So it's Muay Thai? where can I get on some muay thai fights? I wanna get into that.

[Fallout]

So it's Muay Thai? where can I get on some muay thai fights? I wanna get into that.

Its not pure muay thai. Muay thai allows elbows to the face, clinching knees, drop elbows to the collarbone catching the leg and plowing your opponent back ect. ect.

All this stuff is illegal in k-1. K-1 is more like western boxing that allows kicks.

[FrankJack]

I see. The only thing that I've seen of K1 was I think Sapp vs. Hoost, and that's it. So I didn' know much on it. Thanks. Is there anywhere that I would be able to catch some good K1 fights? I'd like to get into it more.

[masterdirector]

Yeah boxers need to give up this K-1 ****. People are idiots though when they say "Well so and so could kick Tyson's ass in K-1."

So the **** what? Put them in a boxing match and mediocre fighters could kick their ass too.

It is the same as saying "Michael Jordan would whip Tyson's ass in basketball." So? Different sports. Let Jordan try to box Tyson...hehehe. Just cause both K-1 and Boxing are fighting sports doesn't make them the same. There are worlds of differences.

K-1 fighters would have to know how to defend against kicks. Boxers, clearly, would not. Boxers also would not know how to throw a kick. So their opponents know the only thing they'll throw with any discipline is a punch. K-1 fighters know they just avoid the boxer's arms and they can dance and kick boxers to death. And of course, boxers aren't trained to anticipate kicks being thrown.

[xrhythmxnxbluesx]

i really dun like the k1 **** anymore... more american style kickboxing than it is muay thai... and it was muay thai before... and since of my trainers alex gong died... ( he use to compete in the k1 card as a super bout)... i stop watching... and caring about it... muay thai kickboxing should be showed more on television its gettin popular...

[Lol999]

So it's Muay Thai? where can I get on some muay thai fights? I wanna get into that.

Try this place

http://mma-tracker.org/account-login.php?returnto=%2F*******s-search.php

but be warned leeches aren't welcome. Seed what you leech and keep a good ratio.

Lol

[pinaldino]

Try this

http://www.fightingarts.com/forums/ubb/Forum1/HTML/003066.html

It's only short clips but it's pure muay thai , performing one of the best of all times: Ramon "the diamond " dekkers
enjoy!!

[Fallout]

i really dun like the k1 **** anymore... more american style kickboxing than it is muay thai... and it was muay thai before... and since of my trainers alex gong died... ( he use to compete in the k1 card as a super bout)... i stop watching... and caring about it... muay thai kickboxing should be showed more on television its gettin popular...

The kickboxing world lost a huge name and a great fighter when Alex was murdered. What makes it even more sad is the fact it was over a traffic accident.

[guru]

apparently mercer sad **** this after that first kick and quit, TKO 1