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Originally Posted by tru3f4n
The Japanese brought over alot of Thais back in the day to teach them Muay Thai so they could mix it in with their Karate and form their own style of standup fighting. The olden days of Japanese Kickboxing looked alot like Muay Thai had elbows and neck wrestling that all changed though. The point is the Japanese photo copied Muay Thai back in the day but called it Kickboxing but it all changed and got watered down now we got what os out there today.
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There was a bunch of mudslinging from both sides actually. Though the Japanese were more at fault obviously. Japan never had an official "standup" style in regards to Muay Thai though. A fighter that uses lowkicks and punches mainly is referred to as the prototypical (or even stereotypical) Japanese fighter because the Japanese could never win fighting like a Thai so they had to focus on their own thing. But overall there's a huge contrast of styles in modern Japanese kickboxing. Even in the 70s you couldn't compare Shima to Fujiwara or Igari. They all had different styles that worked for them.
As far as watering down, that's not true. Nowadays Japanese kickboxing is still Muay Thai as BellyKick pointed out. K-1 is the odd one out. Sadly the lightweights have been exposed to K-1 rules as well.
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Originally Posted by zelot07
[every fight in k1 max he put thai flag
and train with thai lumpine champ
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And? What's your point? Your previous post didn't really make sense and how you keep linking Masato into this doesn't make things any clearer either. Masato started out in AJKF which is a Japanese kickboxing federation. Those that follow the sport know Japanese kickboxing is actually Muay Thai and Masato used to fight Muay Thai bouts as well before he started to compete in K-1 MAX exclusively. He's honouring his trainer and his roots. Nothing wrong with that.
