MOST K1 guys started in boxing and got there ass kicked and now fight for peanuts. A great boxer could knock out 2or 3 guys easily in a street fight. Good luck to the MMA guy that tries that.
False, false, false...
Most K-1 guys started in Muay-Thai; Seidokaikan Karate; Kyokushin Karate; and Kickboxing.
Why don't you admit you're wrong?
Mighty Mo had his jaw broken in his first boxing match. Ray Sefo was knocked almost into a coma in a boxing match. Lebanner suffered the same fate in boxing. Fighting no name boxers yet these guys are at or near the top in K1. Why wouldn't you try boxing first it would only make sense to fight with the potential of making a fortune.
Why should a K-1 fighter expect to do well in a boxing ring when half his weapons (kicks) are taken away?
That's like saying a marine sniper would get owned in a close quarter duel with 9mm. It's a totally ridiculous argument.
Why do they fight? They fight because they enjoy it.
Rather debatable assumption.Sometimes even Francois Botha performed creditably in K1:
This isn't an assumption -
it's a fact.Boxers get owned in K-1; their proficiency with punching doesn't make up for their lack of range.
Botha performed credibly in K-1? Dude, don't you know his K-1 record is 2 wins, 6 losses? No, you didn't.
And his two wins were over injured fighters. So gimme a break.
BTW it's
credibly.Stop trying to sound intelligent when you can't even spell correctly; it makes your arguments less credible.
Ray Mercer won an Olympic gold medal in boxing, and was the WBO Heavyweight Champ, yet he couldn't hack it in K-1: Mercer opted to travel to Japan and challenged Musashi(Seidokaikan Karate Fighter) in the kickboxing combat sport K-1 on June 6, 2004. He was knocked down in the first round and went on to lose via unanimous decision. On March 19, 2005, he had one more K-1 bout against Remy Bonjasky, to whom he lost via KO after being caught with a single high kick in the beginning of the first round.That was Bonjaskys only kick in the fight, and he didnt punch even once. As Mercer put it, "I got the shit kicked out of me".
Please refrain from making uninformed comments on shit, thanks.