Muay Thai or Boxing?

I'm very uneducated in both areas, I've heard that Muay Thai is a very good art but so is boxing.. Both very effective and both very great...So what do you guys think? Boxing or Muay Thai? 😄 😖mart:

Muay Thai

can someone describe what Muay Thai is exactly

Originally posted by fruits
can someone describe what Muay Thai is exactly

Muay thai adds grappling strikes into its art.I've never seen a straight out boxer take out a muay thai boxer.At the same time though,a muay thai boxer needs effencieant grappling skills to fight.

Boxing...

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WingChun by far....oh wait wasn't the question...yeah well both styles have their pros and cons,...I couldn't say which one is better.

Both are good in their areas. If a muay thai fighter and a boxer fought under boxing rules the boxer would win and vice versa.

Originally posted by KidRock
Both are good in their areas. If a muay thai fighter and a boxer fought under boxing rules the boxer would win and vice versa.

That said, you probably mean a Muay Thai boxer would win, since there are much less rules than in boxing (as for not using parts of your body or hit parts of the opponents body)

Originally posted by Bardock42
That said, you probably mean a Muay Thai boxer would win, since there are much less rules than in boxing (as for not using parts of your body or hit parts of the opponents body)

That is what I said.. in a Muay Thai fight a MT fighter would win since he knows how to use knees and kicks better, but in an american boxing fight he can only punch, and the Boxer would be much better at doing that.

Originally posted by KidRock
That is what I said.. in a Muay Thai fight a MT fighter would win since he knows how to use knees and kicks better, but in an american boxing fight he can only punch, and the Boxer would be much better at doing that.

Yes I know, I agree. But if it was a fight to death, the Muay Thai would have an advantage

Muay Thai, take that up over boxing, plus loads of classes are getting started up now because of films like Ong Bak. Learn a lot more about control and body movement as a whole, so I have been told.

I'd like to be able to use my body as a whole in defence/keeping healthy over just using arms/punches, and Muay Thai is more spiritual which guides me towards it over boxing.

I say Boxing...
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I say muay thai...it's all around.....and applies almost as much power as boxing...

Drunken Boxing. The way a real man fights. 😄

ok, I'll tell you as someone who does it Muay Thai (and it's military form, Lerdrit) use the fists, elbows, knees, and shins. You do NOT use you're feet.
Strikes are slower but much more damaging than faster martial arts like tai kwon do. the training is rigorous and injuries can be very bad (i currently have some nerve trauma and a rotated pelvis from my last match).

Above all, before choosing realize that Muay Thai is probably THE MOST LETHAL of all martial arts and when combined with Brazilian Ju-jitsu is quite formidable.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
ok, I'll tell you as someone who does it Muay Thai (and it's military form, Lerdrit) use the fists, elbows, knees, and shins. You do NOT use you're feet.
Strikes are slower but much more damaging than faster martial arts like tai kwon do. the training is rigorous and injuries can be very bad (i currently have some nerve trauma and a rotated pelvis from my last match).

Above all, before choosing realize that Muay Thai is probably THE MOST LETHAL of all martial arts and when combined with Brazilian Ju-jitsu is quite formidable.

Very knowledgeable of the Martial arts you are..... 😱

muai tai doesnt use feet. i thought jean claude used his feet in his directorial debut The Quest. lololol

your feet have lots of small bones in them that can break, your shins are one hard bone that when kicked, uses your entire body. the force of an average shin kick feels equal to an aluminum baseball bat.