What martial arts do you think could match up with muay thai? ?

Full Contact, one on one, opponents of equal skill. What styles could face off against muay thai? Also consider muay thai%26#039;s nasty knee and elbow strikes. |||ANY. Basically the long answer is the standard %26quot;its the person, not the style%26quot; thing. The biggest factor is the attitude towards teaching at each school. If the focus is for tourny fighting, tourny fighters is what you get. If you teach your students that all fights go to the ground, then that is what they will think. And, to get back on point, if you know that most styles have nasty knees and elbows, the knee and elbows from muay thai are just like other styles. If you end up in a school that teaches solid techniques and application, you should be able to hold your own against anyone of the same skill.


Muay Thai doesn%26#039;t hold the patent on dishing out hurt.





|||Rather than give you a totally unhelpful answer such as %26quot;it%26#039;s the person, not the style%26quot; type, you can look at what has made Muay Thai so successful:





Basically, the reason why the style works so well is the emphasis that is placed on sparring, the competition rules, and the training methods (bag and pad work, the camps system, body conditioning... etc).





There are a couple of well-known styles that compare well such as Kyokushin karate and sanda/san shou, and some more obscure styles such as savate and bokator.





In my opinion, western boxing can also compare fairly well, though a western boxer would need to add a couple of kicks to his/her arsenal and -more importantly- would have to learn to defend against kicks in order to prepare for a match up against a thai boxer.


|||As mentioned Kyokoshin karate and Chinese Sanshou are both very similar. In fact SanShou fighters regularly beat Muay Thai fighters.





I also do not know where the notion that muay thai is the only style that has knees and elbows. Okinawan karate such as Shoryn-Ryu, Goju-Ryu, and Isshin-Ryu all incorporate knees, elbows, and low kicks, just like Muay Thai. Okinawan karate also teaches to fight in a clinch. Muay Thai is just more widely recognized because of the fact is is popular in the UFC and MMA competition, and this is mainly due to the fact that it is much faster to get to a higher level then most other styles.|||Jeet Kun Do might match up well in a street fight. However, smashing someone in the trachea with nunchucks might be a little extreme for an MMA bout. In a MMA or NHB fight, Judo or Sambo with a little boxing mixed in would probably be my choice. Stand up styles can%26#039;t really handle the abuse to the legs and wrestlers are too likely to eat a straight punch or a knee coming in, so you%26#039;d really need something in the middle range.|||like mentioned earlier any art if the person is well trained and taught realistic fighting can go up against Muay Thai. Also consider knees and elbows are NOT exclusive to Muay Thai.





Anyways Kyokushin Karate and San Shou are often set up against Muay Thai to see which style is a %26quot;better%26quot; striking art.|||It depends on how good the fighter is? It takes more then elbows and knees to win a fight.


I once saw this fat kid at a train station fend against 3 attackers and won. The fat kid just struck out when they started mouthing of at him. The fat kid took them by shock and negated their aggresion. The fat kid walked away and the 3 wimps stood their looking like shocked rape victims. |||any of tehm use differnt arts, and creat your own fighting style, that is what mma is all about creativity