Four kings of boxing vs kickboxing, can they compare?

[JustOnce]

Andy Souwer arguably was, but Albert Kraus definitely wasn't, but yeah point remains. K1 always bigged up Kraus/Buakaw/Masato/Souwer as their big four. Giorgio's pretty interesting because I don't think he is really associated with any one kickboxing organisation. The big four were always synonymous with the golden age of K1. Giorgio is just sort of himself. He's fought in a lot of organisations but I don't think we really tend to call him a K1 legend, even though he won K1 max twice. He wasn't in Glory for very long - I think he's more known for his overall record, than the titles he's won. I don't think that's true for the big four, who were synonymous with K1 as a brand.

Agree - it would have been nice to see Giorgio vs Masato/Buakaw -I think he probably would have won vs both of them, but there's no way of knowing now

Buakaw fought Giorgio near their primes

 

[JustOnce]

There is no objective prime "age-wise". You're either in your prime or you're not and different people age at different speed. Mike Tyson was already past his prime in 1989 and he was only 23. Buakaw's prime was 2002-2006 (I'd even argue it was only 2002-2004), which is understandable since he started fighting at 8 years old and had almost 200 muay thai fights before joining K1. Kraus never got into the K1 finals ever again after getting knocked out by Masato in 2003 so it's hard to argue he was still in his prime 6 years later.

I think Buakaw that killed Masato in their first fight is the prime Buakaw in k-1 at least.

 

[GolovKing]

The Big 4 of K1 were:

Kraus, Buakaw, Masato, Souwer

Petrosyan is arguably better than all of them, but he came in later as Masato was retiring and Kraus was starting to age

Wasnt Duran sort of not like the others either? I mean he was small and was only really competitive against Leonard, hagler and hearns demolished him. Wasnt he a bit older as well?