06-19-2007, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by AikaImmortal
Err.. I have 15 or so DVDs imported from Japan from Shootboxing to AJKF (All Japan Kickboxing) to SNKA (Shin Nihon Kickboxing) to R.I.S.E. to K-1. Also have quite a few VCDs with Muay Thai from Lumpini Stadium. I have participated in amateur kicboxing matches in the past as well. WCL is NOT kickboxing in my eyes.
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Meh, well, it's kickboxing whether you like it or not. I've seen all those other promotions as well. There is nothing new there or innovative. They ALL have points. And, guess what, a lot of the WCL fighters came from ISKA, K-1, and many others. There are Kb champions on the WCL teams. There are Muay Thai champions there as well. Watch the show, and THAT becomes obvious. Painfully obvious.
The WCL is TEAM kickboxing. It is not merely one-on-one kickboxing. And, it is the one kickboxing promotion that has not bored me to death with fights where the fighters are passive and avoid contact hoping to win by impressing the judges (those points guys we hear about so often in EVERY combat sport these days it seems) with a few weak leg kicks.
For the first time in years I actually enjoyed watching kickboxing again. The last K-1 bored me to death so much that I was thinking of never watching kickboxing again. It had become stale like normal one-dimensional boxing with long drawn-out boring ten or twelve round fights where little to nothing happened but a lot of clinching and sweating on each other. |
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