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I like the art of Muay Thai but I dont like the rules of the sport that much tbh
I’m with you there. I’ve caught most of the major boxing fights still but 20 years of MMA watching makes it hard for me to enjoy a shit ton of rounds and all the damn clinching.More or less the same for me, even though I have to say that I hate when an mma fight turns into a bad kickboxing one, like Petrosyan vs Shara.
I don't like the rules of any sport tbh but feel Muay Thai work better when they use MMA gloves instead.I like the art of Muay Thai but I dont like the rules of the sport that much tbh
What about the rules do you not like? It's the preferred striking art for a lot of people specifically because it has quite an open ruleset among striking arts, punching, elbows, kicking, knees, clinching all allowed.
ONE's ruleset makes MT more like kickboxing with elbows. They even give them MMA gloves but they take away the most fun part of the clinch. They can do so much more if they aren't using the gloves. You can show MMA viewers that clinch fighting against the cage can be very dangerous. They just break the clinch almost immediately. Some guys just raise their arms and the ref will break it for them.I think more traditional Muay Thai gets bogged down in the cultural etiquette aspects of it (starting slow for the first few rounds etc) but when you strip that away, like One FC does, and just go all out with the techniques, its glorious violence. Absolute peak of combat sports.
Really disagree with that. If anything, make the rounds longer. The original idea was to get as close to a real fight as possible. Real fights can be slow paced and grinding. It was supposed to be different from boxing and kickboxing, instead it's gotten more similar over the years.
Seems like a lot of people want MMA to be kickboxing with MMA gloves and the occasional takedown that gets stood up by the ref after 10 seconds. Fuck that.