Have there ever been any boxing vs kickboxing exhibition matches

I have heard from some people that exhibition matches between boxers and kickboxers have been staged and that the boxers won every time. I am having trouble finding anything about them on google. Does anyone here know?

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If the kickboxer were allowed to use all of the tools at his disposal (IOW, allowed to kick below the belt, as if in a street fight), would the boxer still win?

The two major kickboxing venues in Bangkok usually have a card of around 12-15 kickboxing matches and one western boxing match featuring Thai fighters, as almost a curiousity, on any day they’re open (which is most days.) There’s generally a “Rules of Queen’s Berry”(sic) or some such hook in the promotion. Given that they’ve been known to stage events such as kickboxing orang utans with orang “ring girls” I’d be surprised if they don’t hold boxing vs. kickboxing events every now and then.

I’d check the muay thai websites.

These are the two main Bangkok venues I had in mind.

On the whole I wouldn’t be surprised if boxers had the general advantage, but i wouldn’t say the boxers win “every time.” Butterbean boxed against Hiriomi Omada in K-1 in Japan and lost the decision; I believe he also lost a couple more after that. Other boxers have supposedly lost to kickboxers in K-1 as well, like Dewey Cooper, Jan Nortje, Matt Skelton, Shannon Briggs, and Francois Botha.

Boxers may have an edge over kickboxers simply because the really hard punchers seem to end up in boxing, presumably because it’s the more popular sport and has more plentiful and higher valued purses. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that one was more effective than the other, though.

K1 gets the occasional boxer who shows up and gets beaten pretty soundly. I’m not terribly familiar with it, but I don’t know of any boxers winning.

Also, strictly speaking, kickboxing doesn’t allow for kicks below the waist, so that’s a nonissue.

It happens occasionally; heavyweight boxer Shannon Briggs (who won a decision against George Foreman in 1997) KO’d an MMA guy, Tom Erikson, at K-1 in 2004.

Minor nitpick: American rules kickboxing doesn’t allow below the waist kicks, but International rules and Muay Thai allow kicks to the leg.

Erikson isn’t a kickboxer in the strictest sense; I got the impression that the OP was curious about the specific styles interacting. Erikson is an American freestyle wrestler, which would certainly put him at a bit of a disadvantage against a boxer at first blush. Granted, he’s been training MMA for several years, but knowing his wrestling style I’d be surprised if he’d adopted a style that involved a lot of kicking.