The Early Tournaments Back in the late 60s and 70s, like the World Karate Championships (full contact, not point fighiting) were the pre-cursor to the kickboxing as the sport and could be considered the first kickboxing tournaments. They were the closest thing to mixed martial arts that we have today, or at least mixed standup arts. Chuck was involved with al the greats of that time and actually competed against Allen Steen, Joe Lewis, Arnold Urquidez, and Louis Delgado (and beat them)
Provide videos, every fight I’ve seen was point fighting, and no those point fighting tournaments were not precursors to modern kickboxing.
chuck Norris was point fighting at the same time actual kickboxing was being developed in Japan
chuck Norris had 7 fights according to tapology.
Here is footage of chuck’s fight against joe Lewis. It was a point fight. Full contact doesn’t mean not point fighting. Point fighting got softer and softer as younger and younger people took over the martial art.
man’s I’m not sure what opponent this is, but again, clearly point fighting. Never hear of Allen steen before.
As you can see, the wore full gi, and obi, in stances that have barely changed since in the point fighting world, and after a point is scored they stop and reset.
Chuck Norris was a point fighter, not a kickboxer.
I believe van damme was also a point fighter and told someone he was a kickboxer early on because of language barrier. The only footage I can find of him competing looks an awful lot like point fighting.
so I’d love to see footage of chuck norris doing real kickboxing.
it's not. Same with kickboxing.
