[ClampXVII]

That is crap! I've seen better acting at an elementary school play!

[otoko]

But in early 1966, three fairly good Muay Thai stadium fighters were brought over to Japan to fight against 3 Japanese Kickbxers from Oyama dojo, and Japan finally won a series against Thai fighters, by a score of 2 to 1.

This is the only part of Kid McCoy's post that I have issue with. The Japanese team from Oyama dojo went to Thailand to fight. They were trained karateka and not trained kickboxers. Otherwise that was a good post.

[Frank Butcher]

So really Kickboxing in Japan started in the 1990's with K-1 judging by poor 2nd rate Thai's and maybe match-fixing.