You want your answer? Go straight to the source. Every Queensbury boxer in Thailand has at one time been a Thai boxer. They make the switch to make better money and get better sponsors, but in order to do that, they have to be excellent Thai boxers. They need to make a name for themselves.

Not one of them will tell you that boxing can beat Muay Thai. They esteem their Muay Thai skills far above their boxing skills, and these guys are current and former boxing champions, guys like 112lb Sarapichai Gratingdanggym and Saenghiran Lukbarnyai.

Muay Thai is simply deadlier than boxing. What you’ve said here reflects the Western standard of Thai boxing, not the Thai standard. When people come to my camp to train, the first thing they have to do is forget everything they know. These guys are fighters in France, Belgium, the US, Spain, etc. The standards are that different. The quality of fighters is that different. When you say, Ryu, that if a Thai boxer concentrates too much on kicking he will lose to a boxer, you show how little you know of Thai boxing.

Thai boxing completely undoes boxing. You cannot come at a Thai boxer in a standard stance. You cannot bob and weave, you cannot duck, you cannot use the same feints. Boxers cannot clinch and do damage, boxers cannot defend against kicks or knees or elbows. It’s a non-event.

I read about a fight in New York back in 1996 between a 185lb boxer (named something Murphy) and a 145lb Thai boxer. The fight lasted 30 seconds before KO. The boxer couldn’t defend against the flurry of punishment and instinctively ducked only to get KO’d by a kick to the neck. But that was a real Thai boxer from Thailand, not some weekend warrior chump from Nebraska.

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