Did long pants PKA Kickboxing ever rival K1?

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When did PKA Full Contact Karate end officially? What year? Are clubs still around?

 

[Natural Order]

Long Pants Andy Souwer GOAT

 

[thecoldbloodedone]

Long Pants Andy Souwer GOAT

Haha that was his way of honoring ShootBoxing - he got notoriety in Japan after winning the badass 8-man S-Cup tournament several times.

 

[Natural Order]

Haha that was his way of honoring ShootBoxing - he got notoriety in Japan after winning the badass 8-man S-Cup tournament several times.

Never seen the fight but I see he fought Carlos Condit way back in 03 at an S-Cup it appears? Crazy the history and crossover of these names through the years.

 

[zapataxiv]

Never seen the fight but I see he fought Carlos Condit way back in 03 at an S-Cup it appears? Crazy the history and crossover of these names through the years.

not super crazy I would guess
condit was fighting out of fit-nhb in ABQ. the head coach was an old school karate and Japanese submission wrestling guy. he had connections to the Japanese scene. while I was there a guy I trained with fought and lost to mamoru yamaguchi in shooto.

 

[Natural Order]

not super crazy I would guess
condit was fighting out of fit-nhb in ABQ. the head coach was an old school karate and Japanese submission wrestling guy. he had connections to the Japanese scene. while I was there a guy I trained with fought and lost to mamoru yamaguchi in shooto.

I just mean to look back at end of career and see some of the names that crossed paths that certainly weren't those names at the time.

 

[thecoldbloodedone]

Never seen the fight but I see he fought Carlos Condit way back in 03 at an S-Cup it appears? Crazy the history and crossover of these names through the years.

Ya Souwer beat Condit but much later on Toby Imada upset Souwer in the 2010 S-Cup tournament.
Imada used a lot of Judo to score mad points, and progress to fighting Buakaw, who took the whole tournament in his 1 and only ShootBoxing appearance before taking a sabbatical.

Toby Imada was also submission of the year winner with that inverted triangle on Jorge Masvidal.

 

[NoSmilez]

Maybe regionally in the US. I saw some crazy long pants fight in Boston. It is kickboxing but like around 12 rounds. It’s mainly boxing and they are required to kick a few times per round.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Bill Wallace is the long pants kickboxing GOAT. And RIP Joe Lewis.

 

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Bill Wallace is the long pants kickboxing GOAT. And RIP Joe Lewis.

It wouid have to be Don Wilson, no?

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

It wouid have to be Don Wilson, no?

I respect all opinions. But it's Superfoot for me my friend.

But that was a great generation of fighters regardless. Wallace, Wilson, Lewis, Urquidez.

 

[DoctorTaco]

Maybe regionally in the US. I saw some crazy long pants fight in Boston. It is kickboxing but like around 12 rounds. It’s mainly boxing and they are required to kick a few times per round.

Ed Herman had a story about taking a kickboxing fight early in his pro career where he’d go out and throw the requisite 5 kicks within the first 10 seconds of the round and then just boxed the dudes face off for the remainder

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Maybe regionally in the US. I saw some crazy long pants fight in Boston. It is kickboxing but like around 12 rounds. It’s mainly boxing and they are required to kick a few times per round.

That‘s also shiny pants in Montréal in the 90‘s. We used to call any ruleset including low kicks „muay thai“. Lol.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Never seen the fight but I see he fought Carlos Condit way back in 03 at an S-Cup it appears? Crazy the history and crossover of these names through the years.

That‘s unexpected for a guy like Condit to have fought in Shooto.

BTW Shooto is one of my biggest regret of a ruleset that seems not to exist IRL, lol.

 

[NoSmilez]

That‘s also shiny pants in Montréal in the 90‘s. We used to call any ruleset including low kicks „muay thai“. Lol.

I think the ones in America are above the waist. I don't know much about it. Sometimes they have moon shoes and sometimes it is bare boot but with an shin protector.