Boxing vs Karate & Taewkwondo

[Hitman18]

Take a boxer who can move and not get hugged by a wrestler and you have the best fighter on the planet. Boxing is the greatest.

Prime Toney would've won by head choke if he wanted to.

Exactly. If you put an active guy with good hand speed/power and movement he'll win the fight. Manny Pacquiao, Mike Tyson or Cotto, guys that know how to punch and would know not to get hit with wild or looping shots would absolutely beat an MMA fighter or street fighter or what ever.

I say if you teach a boxing a few defensive moves against kicks and submissions, he'll do just fine knocking these guys out with punches. He'll do fine without those defensive moves, but it wouldnt hurt to know them.

[NearHypnos]

Well, with no rules the majority of trained boxers (thai, kick, etc etc) can beat an equally skilled in their craft wrestlers...with things like punches to the back of the head....


Anyway, about the military trained guys beating a boxer....uh...no...
I've been in the military...and...honestly..its not all that compared to a trained fighter in most disciplines. Obviously, its better than nothing, and it helps... But I've seen to many marines knocked out and I know better. <__<... Years of practical fighting in muay thai, boxing, mma, kickboxing, even wrestling is just too much compared to a few months of the training you receive in the military.

[Earl-Hickey]

Well, with no rules the majority of trained boxers (thai, kick, etc etc) can beat an equally skilled in their craft wrestlers...with things like punches to the back of the head....


Anyway, about the military trained guys beating a boxer....uh...no...
I've been in the military...and...honestly..its not all that compared to a trained fighter in most disciplines. Obviously, its better than nothing, and it helps... But I've seen to many marines knocked out and I know better. <__<... Years of practical fighting in muay thai, boxing, mma, kickboxing, even wrestling is just too much compared to a few months of the training you receive in the military.

The military training thing is way overblown, any ****er can join the military and get their "training", it doesn't give you super powers like some of the window lickers in this thread seem to think.

Unless you are talking about SAS or delta force, but then anyone in those is not going to be rolling around on the floor with some random thug outside a pub

[GrandpaBernard]

pretty good thread

[Malius]

Lol I do karate and after 6-8 months training you will be graded to a yellow belt. So beating someone with 6 months training must feel good to some people and this video must be the truth. I don't have my students fighting till over a years experience doing basic training.

Also they kicks those people were doing had no power in them. The punches were crappy too. But yeah biased video on boxing website. I shouldn't be surprised.

[Earl-Hickey]

Lol I do karate and after 6-8 months training you will be graded to a yellow belt. So beating someone with 6 months training must feel good to some people and this video must be the truth. I don't have my students fighting till over a years experience doing basic training.

Also they kicks those people were doing had no power in them. The punches were crappy too. But yeah biased video on boxing website. I shouldn't be surprised.

dont like it?

**** off to the Karate forums then

[Malius]

dont like it?

**** off to the Karate forums then

Sorry I thought the topic was Boxing vs Karate & Taewkwondo, not Boxing is the best no differing opinions please.

Earl you don't like it when people differ from yours. If I said the truth I am sorry you were hurt and had to result to that fabulous retort.

[Earl-Hickey]

Sorry I thought the topic was Boxing vs Karate & Taewkwondo, not Boxing is the best no differing opinions please.

Earl you don't like it when people differ from yours. If I said the truth I am sorry you were hurt and had to result to that fabulous retort.

Sorry, it's a fact

Traditional Martial arts have been proven virtually useless, they are hype.

I remember when "krav maga" used to get that ridiculous hype, like these guys were unstoppable.

then a couple of Krav Maga "grand masters" went in the ufc and got brutally demolished by journeymen kickboxers.

Kickboxing
Boxing
Wrestling.

The only thing you need.

the other Martial Arts are hype

[Light_Speed]

Maybe you can expand

Well I don't think martial arts are more complex than boxing. This is a very complex sport, just look at the defense and counterpunching of Mayweather, Toney and Whitaker, look at the footwork and combinations of Ali and Leonard. Here listen to a well known mixed martial artist talk about boxing :

Boxing is designed for the ring and not for real life. Boxing in the streets is as effective as taibo.