Boxer vs Muay Thai fight in Indonesia

[Natural Order]

Anytime somebody wants to bang in the pocket, my money will be on the boxer.

 

[Intermission]

Anytime somebody wants to bang in the pocket, my money will be on the boxer.

For sure. Look at Rampage. He went straight into K1 and Koed a world class kickboxer

 

[Woldog]

Reading the comments on reddit, seems a lot of people are convinced that the boxer has a lot more experience but I'm not sure. I think the muay thai fighter looked pretty experienced as well but just had a bad strategy and was caught off guard by the boxer's pace, speed, power and footwork. What are some things you see that the boxer did to take advantage of the thai fighter and what could the thai fighter have done differently?

As someone who has fought both styles. Boxing is the harder sport. Muay Thai requires a much different type of toughness and you can lose in the blink of an eye. I was never a prolific kicker and most of my Muay Thai fights I focused on elbows and stand up. I enjoyed Muay Thai more but I started late with that around 24 or 26 iirc. Boxing is a chess game and it is a lot harder in my opinion to be good at boxing than it is in Muay Thai, but Muay Thai is a dance where your partner is actively trying to avoid the flow of your dance.
It's quite hard for me to explain how different it is. I never did any of the fights with shin pads and shit in Muay Thai I went straight into full rules with elbows and knees and in my first fight I ducked down like I had done 10000 times in boxing sparring and fights and got some permanent scarring in my forehead from the knee I ate. Luckily the scarring is only noticeable when I'm exercising or exerting myself or it's really hot. But it is a different best to boxing.

That being said. I'd rather fight a great Muay Thai fighter in a street fight than a great boxer. But that's just me.

 

[GolovKing]

As someone who has fought both styles. Boxing is the harder sport. Muay Thai requires a much different type of toughness and you can lose in the blink of an eye. I was never a prolific kicker and most of my Muay Thai fights I focused on elbows and stand up. I enjoyed Muay Thai more but I started late with that around 24 or 26 iirc. Boxing is a chess game and it is a lot harder in my opinion to be good at boxing than it is in Muay Thai, but Muay Thai is a dance where your partner is actively trying to avoid the flow of your dance.
It's quite hard for me to explain how different it is. I never did any of the fights with shin pads and shit in Muay Thai I went straight into full rules with elbows and knees and in my first fight I ducked down like I had done 10000 times in boxing sparring and fights and got some permanent scarring in my forehead from the knee I ate. Luckily the scarring is only noticeable when I'm exercising or exerting myself or it's really hot. But it is a different best to boxing.

That being said. I'd rather fight a great Muay Thai fighter in a street fight than a great boxer. But that's just me.

I would agree. I think boxing overall is the most complicated to master. Second would be muay thai then third would be kickboxing. Then boxing of course also has a much more competitive pool of talent that makes it even more difficult to rise to the top of