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Classification of unarmed combat sports. A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat.In many combat sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent, submitting the opponent with a hold, disabling the opponent (knockout, KO), or attacking the opponent in a specific or designated technique.
In France, a full contact karate promotion called pro fight karate, has been formed for professional karate with MMA style gloves, clinching and limited grappling. An example of full contact karate rules unique to a single promotion is the now defunct Chaos Madmax [22] special event in Japan, arranged by the FSA Kenshinkan [23] style ...
American Kickboxing was first known as Full Contact Karate before becoming known or referred to as Kickboxing as it amalgamates Karate & Boxing and aspects of various other Martial Arts into one sport. The pro full-contact version of karate is akin to boxing in that the fighters wear boxing gloves within a roped ring. Its resemblance to pure ...
Sanda is a fighting system which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Chinese martial arts and modern combat fighting techniques; it combines boxing and full-contact kickboxing, which includes close range and rapid successive punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws ...
The Chute Boxe Academy (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʃutʃi ˈbɔksi]; "Kick-Boxing") is a Brazilian martial arts academy. It opened as a Muay Thai academy in 1978 in Curitiba , Paraná, Brazil. Head trainer Rudimar Fedrigo later expanded the program in 1991 to include other aspects of modern mixed martial arts , such as wrestling and submission ...
Hamid Amni fighting at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017 in Full-contact style with full-contact pants. Kickboxing has a number of different rulesets. For example, Oriental/K-1 rules allow punches, high and low kicks and even knee strikes, while American kickboxing is limited to punches and kicks only above the belt (high kicks).
Hiroki Akimoto (秋元 皓貴, Akimoto Hiroki, born August 31, 1992) is a Japanese martial artist and kickboxer.He competes in ONE Championship's bantamweight and flyweight division, where he is the former ONE Kickboxing Bantamweight World Champion.
Yaw-Yan, also called Sayaw ng Kamatayan (English: Dance of Death), [1] is a Filipino martial art developed by Napoleon A. Fernandez and based on older Filipino martial arts. [2] Since its inception in the 1970s, it has dominated the kickboxing scene in the Philippines and has proven very effective against other stand-up fighting arts [ citation ...