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Although currently in my opinion the best rule set for the two styles will be K-1, as in, MT allowed to use clinch one knee/attack no elbow. no hip throws and no sanda takedowns allowed.
I absolutely do not think K 1 rules is representative of the two sports. It handicaps a good half of the weapons of both sports, especially Sanda. Trying to find a "common ground" might sound fair, but its almost like pitting an MMA guy with a Kickboxer in a boxing match, it might be fair, but its not even close to the original sport.
If you want them to use all your weapons, I would say FMT with sanda takedowns with countdown scoring from 10, judging would be on the overall rounds and not count every punch, knee and elbow, or takedown. much like how K1 is being scored. with all strikes considered equal. with downs increasing your ring controll which could score you higher if round is scored a draw and no significant power hits for either in the round.
That would significantly favor MT. The fact is, you cannot use countdown system with a style that has wrestling but no ground work. It doesn't work. Takedowns would have no more than a subsidiary role to striking. But Sanda isn't a striking based art and I never liked the direction China is taking trying to conform to kickboxing over MMA. Even if you imply a MMA scoring system for takedowns, it doesn't reflect Sanda as Sanda is not based on ground control whereas ground control is how MMA scores grappling dominance. Sanda has a completely different fight/wrestling theory. The idea of Sanda is to throw a guy down while you remain standing, the throws itself is a sign of damage and control. Sanda isn't really kickboxing with takedowns any more than its wrestling with strikes to set up the throws; the reality is that it is half striking and half wrestling. Sanda 's wrestling theory and scoring is more similar to Shuajiao or even Judo scoring (emphasis on throws itself and IPPON), instead of BJJ scoring (mat work over throws) in the case of MMA. The idea is to end fights from throws in a real fight or have dominance over the opponent because you are standing and you can stomp and kick them.
Even the standard Sanda ring is more similar to wrestling sports like Sumo and Shuaijiao, where ring out scores, instead of ropes like typical kickboxing. Sanda is not a form of kickboxing.
These are standard sanshou matches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOt_3OO0EdE&feature=youtu.be
It's quite different from kickboxing. Making it K 1 focused is just making it into a different sport.
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