full thai rules, international muay thai or kickboxing judging, i respect a lot stadium muay thai, but i hate their judging, i hate the "slow rounds" for the gamblers, how the 4 and 5 round have so many weight in the fight meanwhile the 3 firts rounds don't have any and how punches score so little unless they do damage, i prefer nontraditional, ""modern"" judging for muay thai, valuing punchings and volume, maybe is because i am a MMA guy but i like clinch fighting, and i actually like having some moments where the fight slow down a little.
my main problem with old K1/glory rules (modern K1 basically is lowkick kickboxing with knees) is that these rules are basically watereddown muay thai, i hate the lack of elbows, something about it bothers me, on MMA and muay thai elbows are one of my favorite strikes, i don't like the lack of sweeps and the limited clinch, but my main problem is the lack of elbows, i never understood why japaneses seems to hate it, they cut, but knees also can cut and elbow pads can prevent cuts, but in any case i can appreciate good K1 rules kickboxing, the fighters are more important than the rules, even if i would like if glory allowed elbows, or better, if they used full thai rules.
There are too many Kickboxing styles and most people not in the know would not tell the difference from muay Thai and K-1 style.
Me I wish there was just 2 styles being one old style PKA Full Contact rules with no leg kicks and for Karate/Tae-Kwon-do fighters to set up from Semi-Contact and the other being where the Muay Thai/Burmese-Indo styles/K-1 figt with low kick's/clinching etc.
full contact kickboxing here is hated, but i love it, when i watch lowkick kickboxing i feel it like watereddown K1 rules, and as i say K1 rules feels like watereddown muay thai, meanwhile with full contact kickboxing this their own animal, their own sport separated from lowkick, K1 and muay thai ruleset, would love if the most popular form of commercial kickboxing was muay thai followed by full contact kickboxing, and not K1 rules followed by muay thai like happens actually, fighters like stephen thompson, raymond daniels and michael paige would shine on full contact rules.
