An old fight: Muay Thai Vs Sanda in K-1?

[parrythehate]

This is just my perspective, if the two traditional styles were to have a match in kickboxing rules I'd say Muay Thai has the clearer advantage. Why? The emphasis on the kicks and knees. Why does sanda have the disadvantage in kickboxing? Well it had foundations in wrestling, as some of the sanda practitioners and followers here say. Clearly it showed here in this fight, the hooks and side kicks didnt help much for the Sanda fighter but if this was a unified rule match, Sanda has all the advantages. And if its the now modified Sanda/sanshou variant then again it has the advantage. The only reason muay thai has lost many fights agaisnt sanshou/sanda is some thai fighters stick to a traditional variant of Muay Thai, even the non-thais make the same mistake. Again from my perspective, to be a good kickboxer you have to let go of these old hokey pokey traditions, and fight. Its not your background that wins the fight, its only the adaptations and willingness to approach change during the fight that wins you the fight. If you pay attention to some of the wins that Thai fighters have had over in WLF and Kun Lun, they actually look less like Muay thai fighters and more of this reactive "style" and more boxing as well. Chinese kickboxing has great techniques Movement, punching, kicking and always active, they are impressive, so much so that it looks like good fighting, but some fighters take it as a tradition. Our goal should be to see fights no longer as style. At the moment I wouldnt know how to see it now. But i just want to shed and share a perspective I had.