I dont agree muay thai is the poor mans sport outside of thailand

imho you will find more people interested in muay thai that have travelled to thailand to train than in other martial arts, most gyms have at least 1 person travelling to thailand (even if just instructor and no students)

imho you dont see as many students of karate or judo travelling to japan, bjj travelling to brazil or tae kwondo students travelling to korea

I do agree that it attracts some weirdos but most martial arts do...proabably less weirdos in a traditional boxing gym

bad co are normal blokes having a laugh..not sure about the werewolf bit..i must be getting old but neil holden is definetely trying to antagonize them with his daft drivel

if neil holden solely competed in k1 events and considered himself a kickboxer then that's fair enough

...however if neil holden mostly dressed like a power ranger in his fighting career and was usually padded up like a sofa then it seems he's trying to attach himself to a harder form of combat in k1 than traditional full contact kickboxing with moon boots is known as

most people interested in k1 consider it hybrid stand-up art, whether the owners claim k1 as kixkboxing is modern marketing claim, it used to be known as a middle ground for muay/kickboxers/karate and other stand-up fighters

personally I feel it's being called k1 to simplify it to the public, a karate fighter can compete in k1 using karate techniques and that could be called kickboxing to dumb it down as the karate fighter will be kicking and throwing punches(boxing)