quiet_way
While my belief that boxing is exactly 1/3 of a martial art is well known, one has to admit that those guys are very good at taking hits. The stamina and conditioning on a well-trained boxer might very well put them in a league with a TKD fighter provided that the fight doesn't go outside of five minutes or so. One has to remember that most of the powerful kicks in TKD are aimed at the one place that boxers train heavily to defend-- the skull. That would figure in heavily.
That much may be true about a boxer ... but we don't train for kicks ... once the first kick lands ... no matter where it is ... that's gonna be in the mind ... I know ... when I was making that transition to MMA ... in sparring ... I thought I would smash people ... but once a kick landed ... thought of that the entire time ... and I would make all of those amateur kickboxing mistakes ... blocking with both hands for leg and body kicks ... stuff like that ...
Even against tae kown do ... the thing that makes it different from say muay thai ... is the way that they can transition from kick to kick mid-kick ... that threw me off big when we would spar with some of the TKD guys that would come in ...
So for me ... I choose TKD ...
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