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Question: What's the best Martial Art to combine with Boxing?

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Answer #1:

personally I would add a striking style that focuses on kicking... savate, muay thai, taekwondo (ITF), or even Kyokushin or Shotokan Karate.

with your hands, the addition of kicks would be hard to beat.

wrestling is a good base for any martial art/fighting style.. but if it isn't for you then don't bother cause you won't practice it enough to be efficient at it. if you want well rounded you could go with a grappling technique, kajukenbo mixes boxing with judo/jujitsu, aikido is an efficient grappling style where you can still fight standing up.. and judo offers powerful throws for if someone clinches while engaged in your boxing style... muay thai would also be effective in the clinch.

I would also suggest wing chun to go along with boxing as you can block,counter and punch at the same time, with your quick and powerful punches it would supplement your style very well.

Answer #2:

Wrestling, in my opinion is the best style to combine with boxing. If you ever decide to become a MMA fighter, a boxer that can wrestle is downright scary.

However, you don't need to focus on every aspect of wrestling. Learn to wrestle, but work on take down defense, and get yourself a couple of take downs. If you can sprawl and avoid the mat if you want to, and have 1 or 2 good shots that you can take people down with if you do want to, your game is going to be tough to beat. You're a boxer on the feet, and you get to decide where you want the fight to go.

There are other aspects of wrestling that would benefit you (or anyone) for sure, but that's what I would try to specifically take out of it if you can push yourself and give it another shot.

Answer #3:

Catch as catch can. In the old days farmers were the best wrestlers and we would pass our moves on to the next generation. The art is practically lost and only a few of us still have the knowledge.

My grandfather was undefeated in the county 10 years running. Such old moves as the haybale, the pitchfork, and the hog-tie are unknown to you young wipper-snappers.

Answer #4:

Since you already have stand up skills, I would try Judo or BJJ. Both are fun...Judo with a variety of throws/takedowns, and BJJ with submissions.

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Answer #6:

I can also recommend Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do (by Ted Wong). It has alot of footwork, and the use of kicking and grappling.

Answer #7:

I'd say Judo or BJJ. Combat Sambo is probably best but is not taught in very many places in the US.

Answer #8:

In my opinion, boxing goes along well with any type of martial arts.

Answer #9:

Personally, I think that boxing is easily incorporated into any Martial Art. It can round out a grappling style, or it can add additional striking techniques to a striking Art. If you are looking to be more rounded in your self defense, I would suggest an Art such as Judo, BJJ, JJJ, or Sambo. I chose Japanese Ju Jitsu, and found that boxing adds more than it detracts from the Art. Someone already mentioned Wing Chun, and I can't argue against that, because the trapping techniques of Wing Chun combined with the striking of boxing go together well. Again it's only my opinion, but I think the Chi Sao training alone would aid a boxer's defenses. Basically, only you can truly answer this for yourself as there really isn't a "best" anything associated with the Martial Arts.

Answer #10:

First of all I recommend you go to a trial class of each if you can to see what you enjoy most. Boxing is like ketchup, it generally goes well with anything. I've found Boxing compliments my BJJ very well, especially if you're more grappling prone. The footwork you find in Boxing is especially useful. We may not "train kicks", but the way we use our move is second to none in the martial arts world.

In a 1 v 1 or an MMA fight the hand combos and footwork is perfect for keeping range and closing the distance for the clinch and takedown. In many way it helps alleviate the comparatively crap takedowns us BJJers have. In a multiple opponents scenario the footwork is great for cutting angles and getting to a place you can escape, your BJJ will help you get off the ground should you be taken there. Hell the only people I've ever seen take down more than 1 guy were boxers. There are two videos of it on youtube. Aside from that Boxing will give you more than enough striking skills to get knockouts, and the footwork should also prove somewhat beneficial in avoiding clinches/takedowns should you so desire.

I would recommend you spend a little bit of time down the road in a Muay Thai class. Just to understand low kicks, knees and whatnot so you can defend them. This is especially relevant to MMA, as a Thai low kick will kill your footwork faster than 1,2,3.

Off the top of my head here are 5 great BJJ fighters that successfully use, or have successfully used boxing as their primary standup style:

1. BJ Penn
2. Minotauro
3. Vitor Belefort
4. Little Nog
5. Rashad Evans

Just remember to have fun bro. If you don't like something you won't stick with it long enough to learn anything.

Edit: If you really like striking, I would recommend Judo instead. It will give you the takedown defense to stay on your feet, and the basic ground skills to avoid submissions and get back to your feet. If this is the case I'd also recommend serious Muay Thai training as well. Its much more complete and generally is the more efficient art for those who are primarily strikers. Plus, with a boxing background you'll generally have much better hands than most pure Thai Boxers.

On a different note, I wouldn't write off grappling arts simply because of your bad experience with wrestling. My dad more or less forced me into wrestling all through highschool, and I hated every minute of it. On the other hand I loved my first BJJ class, I was hooked on the art from day one. You may even have loved wrestling if you had a different coach.

Answer #11:

I'd recommend either Eskrima/Kali or a grappling art like BJJ. Definitely go BJJ if your long term goal is competition. If your goal is effective self defense either are good and ideally you should learn both. Every art has it's strengths and vulnerabilities. For self defense you want to learn arts which complement each other rather than getting too attached to any one style. Eskrima is weapon work, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is ground fighting, both cover holes left by Boxing.

Answer #12:

If you want to just try one other, perhaps judo?

Its pretty widely taught, starts with standup grappling, does include throws, takedowns and submissions, etc. You could argue that BJJ is 'better' on the ground (could also argue its a judo subspecialty, so perhaps we'll just say that studying bjj can give an advantage on the ground), or that wrestling is 'better' for takedowns, since that's all those schools focus on, but judo + boxing would give you a grounding in all aspects of fighting. That and judo is pretty widely taught in a practical environment involving the judo version of sparring.

Muay Thai would add more strikes, Its a benefit, but probably not the 'most effective' since you can probably handle a lot of people on the feet anyway.

Answer #13:

My background is primarily in Muay Thai, so I could easily suggest it to you, but in today's world I think that because you already have stand-up fighting skills you should compliment them with good ground fighting skills. I suggest you consider Jiu Jitsu. You will learn enough kicking techniques in Jiu Jitsu to give you a well rounded fight knowledge.