What are the weaknesses of a muay thai fighter?

What are the cons?|||Muay Thai has great striking and clinching game.





The cons- No ground grappling. This is an essential need IMO, and Muay Thai doesn%26#039;t have it.|||The Dem-Mak (Death Touch). When done on a Muay Thai fighter, it causes them to burst into laughter at your failed attempt to apply traditional martial arts to a real fight, leaving them vulnerable to a punch in the face.|||The main weakness is the ground game. It doesn%26#039;t have a ground game. And no matter how good you are at Mauy Thai Kickboxing or ANY other striking martial art you still can be taken to the ground!|||Big gloves, which doesn%26#039;t teach how to punch properly without gloves and also gives fighters false security when they think holding their hands right next to their face will protect them from getting knocked out in a street fight





Also its not very self defence orientated, well, not the modern Muay Thai anyway, and no grapling. Original Muay Thai however is purely self defence, they spar with gloves but they train how to fight without them and they have grapling, If your talking about original Muay Thai I would say its a great all round system|||The high stance is good defense against knees to the head but is bad for sprawling|||take em to the ground , its like a tiger vs , a shark in the water. muay thai fighters are helpless againts submissions , or a good wrestler who can ground and pound em out. but becarful dont get shin kicked in the face , when your trying to close in!|||The cons are their grappling skills and ground game, which is none. also their kicks are very circular, so they are easy to see coming if your timing is good. in tkd our kicks are linear, which makes it difficult to see.|||the ground game...if they are taken down in a fight they can not do much if the only thing they have is muay thai...their stand up is unstoppable|||they don%26#039;t train on the ground. thats the major weakness. other than that muay thai is the most well rounded form of striking.|||It%26#039;s a very %26quot;upright%26quot; %26amp; standing fighting style... there%26#039;s no real wrestling or grappling skills taught in this. (Although they say that if you%26#039;re REALLY skilled at this art - they shouldn%26#039;t be able to get close enough to you to knock you down %26amp; grapple -- but let%26#039;s be realistic, it DOES happen).|||Well, keeping them on the ground is good. Fighting with a few of your friends on your side is a good idea. :)