Muay Thai VS American Kickboxing

**Draven** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 10:55am

A very interesting video I found on youtube.

Rick Roufus is one of the best kickboxers ever to come out of the US, a six time world champion with about 60 wins in total.

He had a fight against Changpeuk Kiartsongrit, a Muay Thai legend from Thailand. This fight was under special rules, no elbows were allowed and the clinch was limited but leg kicks were allowed which is something Roufus was obviously not very good at dealing with being used to fighting under American Kickboxing rules.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/v/nVpT-RBCGQk[/media]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nVpT-RBCGQk

**UpaLumpa** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 11:14am

Dammit, one of the queued videos was another leg break. Why the **** do I always watch those?

**Phrost** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 11:16am

Isn't "American Kickboxing" the ruleset where you can't throw leg kicks and must throw a minimum number of high kicks in a round? I thought Roufus did K-1 kickboxing.

**Draven** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 11:30am

He turned to that later in his career, he started with the Full Contact Kickboxing crap and won the world title there 6 times. According to Wikipedia, he also tried out in Pro Boxing at one point. But when that fight took place he had only been doing FC American Kickboxing. I guess this fight was a wake up call for him lol

Edit: He actually did have a decent career in pro boxing: http://boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=7162

**isol8d** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 11:55am

Rick Rofous recently fought at the Shin Do Kumite in Tampa. He beat Mehrdad, even with Mehrdad's Iron Body Thai Boxing...

http://www.mastermehrdad.com/kickboxing.htm

**Khun Kao** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 12:05pm

I understand that he broke Changpuek's jaw in the 1st round of that fight, but after that it was all Changpuek.

**Odacon** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 1:36pm

Lol the way he spun at the end was classic.

**chaosexmachina** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 9:12pm

I love it when people can't defend leg kicks! :evil6:

**CanucKyokushin** · Posted On: 10/16/2006 9:59pm

Ha!But that was more then 20 years ago.American Kickboxing has come a long way since then.They now have.............................................. ...............................................hel p me out here someone.

**huge** · Posted On: 10/29/2006 3:17pm

Originally Posted by Canuckyokushin

Ha!But that was more then 20 years ago.American Kickboxing has come a long way since then.They now have.............................................. ...............................................hel p me out here someone.

Flashier kickboxing pants. :icon_mrgr