Taekwondo vs Muay Thai Underground Street Fight Knock out

5:52:00 AM Tkd kwan 34 Comments



Mixed style fights do not always say a lot about each martial art, but it is more about the skill of the fighter him/her self, and when a fighter from a certain style  wins a fight against another martial art, it does not mean that a style is better than another.
Fighters commitment and hard work can give a wonderful image about the martial art.
We have posted fights before about Taekwondo against Muay Thai, but all of them were in the ring, but this underground fight here is done in the street.
The tension in the beginning of this fight can give you a feeling that the fight is going to end up by a knock out.
Both athletes are good and we can see that through their techniques, the Taekwondo fighter is using well his kicks but maybe not too effective to cause a knock down or knock out.
The Muay Thai fighter was there waiting for the right opportunity, and when he got it he just knocked his opponent out -_-
What is Muay Thai?
Muay Thai is referred to as the "art of eight limbs" or the "science of eight limbs",because it makes use of punches, kicks, elbow and knee strikes, thus using eight "points of contact", as opposed to "two points" (fists) in boxing and "four points" (hands and feet) used in other more regulated combat sports, such as kickboxing and savate.
A practitioner of Muay Thai is known as a nak Muay. Western practitioners are sometimes called nak Muay farang, meaning 'foreign boxer'.
 Lets watch the video and let us know what do you think about it.
Your opinions matter :)
Watch the video though the link.




34 comments:

  1. Teakwondo is a soft style, good for teaching speed and accuracy. I have a friend that was at the time a 2nd Degree back belt and an Olympic hopeful, she got into a fight with two female street fighters and they cleaned her clock. I practice KaJuKenBo, a hard style out of Hawaii. When we did open tournaments in Europe, Teakwondo practitioners would forfeit instead of fighting us. We had one female that a Teakwondo guy drew a fight with her and decided he would take it instead of bowing out. How bad could it be fighting a female right? She was disqualified for being to violent when she beat him into a bloody pulp... LOL... How do you get disqualified during an open tournament when you are not violating rules? No eye gouging, no groin kicks... SMH

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. TKD is definitely categorized as a hard style. Martial Arts that focus more on grappling, such as Judo or Jujitsu, are the soft styles.

      Delete
    2. My father spent three years in s.Korea before Nam. At that time tkd was for fighting. Now it's for sport. My father taught me. No pads, concrete floor, breakfalls, and the use of hands. This dude clearly thought he was in the ring. He never raised his hands. Moderns tkd is fun for the Olympics and that's all.

      Delete
  2. I am a teakwondo man and I think it's better to learn all styles.

    ReplyDelete
  3. When in real fights, you don't throw spinning back kick at that distance, especially when you are in a street fight where hands are also part of the game. Kicking alone without punches will give you a huge disadvantage when fighting fighters who are skilled both in hands and in fight. Taekwondo guys could have won if his kicks were fast and accurate. I found his kick so slow and inaccurate that's why he lose.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yeah he relied too heavily on the spinning side kick.

      Delete
  4. he is a kick boxer, not Muay thai. A Muay thai will use front kick to kick the opponent's knee to stop opponent from getting away. A Muay thai will use a harder round house kick from his right leg to destroy, not his front left leg. A Muay thai will not use his arm muscle to block a kick to his head, he will use his fore arm's bone to block :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. How can that guy be black belt in Taekwondo? He is terrible. Yellow or green belt max. The winner is not a Muay Thai as somebody pointed that out already.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Ive practiced both martial arts. Im far from an expert. But TKD guy is sparring like he's at the Olympics. TKD ppl would donstreet right much differently. Muay Thai guy - he executes some MT moves but something seems like it is not his main style. Regardless, i would rarely put my bet on TKD. Beautiful art, not super effective against other martial arts.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I was trained in Taekwondo in my younger days, but it was for the street, neither one of these guys are that good. Notice the TKD fighter had his hands to his side, that is the new TKD fighter for tournaments. I can tell you for a fact, TKD in korea that dont train tournaments would have won that fight with eases. Also I notice the TKD fighter was very slow and moved straight back, I was never trained to move back, you alway moved offline. What I didnt like about TKD was, if you went to the ground, "THEN WHAT", So i went and trained in both TKD, Hapkido and Judo. Judo filled the hole I was missing.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Wrestling, Bjj, Koshin, Catch wrestling boxing, Muay Thai, Kyokushin karate, are good styles to learn.The rest is a!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. TKD guy just didn't want any part of that fight. He was backing up the whole time. The moment the MT fighter stopped being the aggressor the fight lulled. "When you're in a fight you have to attack, you have to Keep attacking. The opponent has to know he is not going to give up. You must break the soul of whatever the fuck is in front of you." -David Goggins

    ReplyDelete
  10. Lets face it. TKd is good in only one range. Even at that range they don't have the impact conditioning to take punishment or the aerobic conditioning to continue with effective strikes at that one range.

    ReplyDelete
  11. TKD is not just about the feet (kicks). He throws no punches or elbow strikes and he keeps moving backwards (big no no where I train). He spends way too much time on the ground with no way to defend himself. The moving back and staying on the ground tells me that he should not have shown up for this fight.

    ReplyDelete
  12. The taekwondo guy looked like he was using wtf version of taekwondo, where they rarely use hands and only focus on kicks, which is what they use in the Olympics. Had it been someone using itf style, where they do use hands and punch it may have been a different outcome, but who knows.

    ReplyDelete
  13. He is not Taekwondo i guess.. just jump jump moving backward..

    He is just a martial lover. I can KO him under 10seconds.

    Thanks to the Thai Boxer, he just waiting and counter, if he do a combination striking and continuous attack, the jumping man will KO in blink..

    ReplyDelete
  14. Taekwondo is definitely a hard style but definitely soft in its present format or even as demonstrated in this video clip as a relates to its relevance versus other styles or in the street. This has not always been the case!

    ReplyDelete
  15. A martial art is designed to beat specific contexts from which it has been created for. There is no point to oppose them in this kind of fight as neither have been created to beat the other.. It's not about MT beats TKD. At best, this vid is about two guys testing each other with their style, experience, fitness, will, and so on. Don't evaluate the styles but the athletes.

    ReplyDelete
  16. poor fight they both need to do a lot of cardio, just weak

    ReplyDelete
  17. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  18. 25 years ago I practiced Kick Boxing, and our instructor made us keeps our fists up to protect the head at all times. running, spinning etc with the hands up to protects the head. when I saw the TKD with his hands down I thought to myself, "he's going to be KO. head is not protected." and it happened!

    now, on ice, if I think I'm about to lose balance my hands go up in an instant to protect the head. EVERYTIME!

    ReplyDelete
  19. I was both tkd and muay thai and i was always on a real street fight on my younger days. In tkd i can only used roundhouse , 45, turning side, and side steps but in muay thai everything. 45 in tkd is more useful from hip to up to roundhouse. Muay thai is sweeter from hip down specially on the side knee sometime you can hear a cracking sound. Sweet!!!

    ReplyDelete
  20. When I was in tkd it was a waiting game slight move is a disadvantage but on this video he is not using side steps, timing and range.

    ReplyDelete
  21. This is a different style of TKD to what I train in. Our's is military based. Very effective self defence style. And agreed, it's more about the 2 guys than the styles.

    ReplyDelete
  22. You have done a good job with your knowledge that makes our work easy because you are providing such good information. Keep sharing this kind of knowledge with us. Krav Maga Street Fight

    ReplyDelete
  23. Usually i'm not committing to any post but your blog post is forcing me to do it ,your knowledge is very good. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Handgun Safety Training

    ReplyDelete
  24. Cool story but a video would've helped a lot.

    ReplyDelete
  25. Sport TKD is as it is said "A Sport" Check out the Korean armies TKD That is real TKD.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Even just anything other than WTF olympic style TKD. Hands down, not knowing how to use them isn't representing all of TKD.

      It's unfortunate the Sport TKD is what the laymen knows to be TKD.

      The TKD I know would have the fight with his hands up ready to use more than just his kicks.

      also I believe the TKD fighter was very inexperienced, Comboing kicks where the last kicked is jammed is relying on "gentleman" rules where the fighter defending agianst the kick in the gym is backing up away from the first kick. The attacker is expecting this and gearing up for the 2nd or 3rd kick at further distance.

      Also when I use WTF I'm meaning World Taekwondo Federation not World Taekwondo Family - I'm not that familiar with World Taekwondo Family

      Delete
  26. The hard part is there is more then one style of TKD. When people generalize like this and say all TKD is bad, they are being disingenuous. I've been practicing Moo Duk Kwan World Tae-Kwon-Do since 1985 and teaching it since 1997. I've sparred Olympic style Tae-Kwon-Do and mopped the floor with them. A few of them didn't even know what Tae-Kwon-Do meant let alone any of its history. If one of them sparred against a Muay Thai fighter that seriously trained, they would mop the floor with them as well. I have sparred against Muay Thai fighters and Krav Maga and won most of my bouts. This kind of misinformation article is what causes people to misjudge a martial art. Created by ignorance and spread by people who don't fact check.

    ReplyDelete
  27. This practitioner is of tkd olympic, sport. Not a chance. For such a fight, you must be able to use both legs equally, to be able to take advantage of the positions in which the opponent exposes himself, which is different from an opponent by tkd. On the other hand, the opponent does not excel in the Muay Thai style, otherwise he should have closed the match a long time ago, using low-kicks that are very strong and would have destroyed the main weapon, the leg, so that the tkd practitioner would no longer have basis. There is a lot to discuss about this match and in general about the subject of tkd vs another style. Certainly tkd can be used in any fight, but adapted. And I can say this because I am developing a K1 taekwondo project with which I won in the kick competitions in which tkd was obvious. The athlete having a foot technique obviously superior to the opponents. Both on full and light contact.

    ReplyDelete
  28. People talking about hard and soft styles are confused. A hard or "external" style is one that focusses on developing the physical body conditioning it for fighting. This is most martial arts practiced today. Soft or "internal" styles focus on the energy body or inner strength. This include Tai Chi Chuan and some other Chinese Kung Fu styles. I'm not sure which is better, but certainly as I got older the hard style training is becoming too much for me and I am starting to train other thigns such as awareness of my internal state and less high impact stuff like Wing Chun.

    ReplyDelete