Original Karate vs Muay Thai Battle | 1966

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Japanese karate superstar faces #8 ranked lumpinee fighter almost 60 years ago.
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Cross discipline battles are always so exciting.
Muay thai has been so dangerous for so long.

GabrielVargaOfficial
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This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing!

lukemorganofficial
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After winning for so long, realising he had no answer to a new style must have been so shocking. Props to the guy for being intrigued and wanting to learn instead of just avoiding it for the rest of his life. The gloves really impair a traditional non-points karateka, though, as a natural karate answer for muay thai would be to crash inside and judo the hell out of the opponent in the clinch (traditional karate has its fair share of throws, even without cross-training).

juliahenriques
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The Thai’s developed a martial art that is shaved right down to the bone. There is no fat, only exactly what works. Add the toughest training regime and you get the worlds most devastating martial art.

canarc
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Awesome, I remember back in the 80s, a cartoon was made about sawamura's life and his loss against a Muay Thai fighter. This is like 40 years waiting gift. Thank you Gabriel.

sanvicente
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I got lucky and found a Muay thai gym when i was 16 in 1993.. nobody knew what it was back then

sociallypatterneddefect
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Thanks for your time, knowledge, education and opening up the world of combat sports to the masses. I love your channel and try to emulate myself after you! This footage from the 1960s is timeless!! Thanks again Mr. Varga! All the best for you! 👊💯🙏🥊

neilhack
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Sawamura was a joker and never a good representative of 60s Karate or japanese kickboxing. He certainly was not a "japanese kickboxing superstar" by the time this fight took place, but a sport karate guy who was approached about getting into full contact after that 1964 Muay Thai vs. Karate tournament which the japanese ended up winning 2:1. The guy who promoted the whole thing, Osamu Noguchi, founded the Japanese Kickboxing Association in 1966, which actually originated the term "kickboxing". He brought Sawamura in. Like I said, that was in 1966, the very year the fight we're watching here took place, so Sawamura couldn't have possibly been an experienced kickboxer when he got stomped by Adisorn. He's not responsible for developing japanese kickboxing either. That was a different dude who also lost to a Thai fighter, Kenji Kurosaki. He was one of the guys on the japanese team at the aforementioned Muay Thai vs. Karate tournament, and after his loss he switched his focus 100% to kickboxing and founded the original Mejiro Gym in Tokio. Kurosaki trained Jan Plas who went on to open the Mejiro Gym in Amsterdam, and that was the beginning of the dutch style, which again is a whole different story ..

honigdachs.
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This is so cool! Martial arts history. Please keep on fact finding (and also debunking myths), a real addition.

daanvandenberg
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Jesse Enkamp did a great video on the French Savate influence on sport karate in the early 20th century. Since watching it I've always wondered how karate would have evolved if the Japanese maintained the full-contact aspect of Savate, instead of changing to the current point system.

BadMoon
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Damn he was kicking his opponent as if kicking pads

joechen
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The Kickboxing style that was developed after this lost for karate is a true redemption story.

It's the true essence of martial arts, to face the biggest challenge and grow from experience

MarkosGormax
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It all comes down to pressure testing techniques and sparring. I’m a Karate guy and not all dojos are created equal. The great thing about videos like these and today’s technology is that we have the knowledge to learn and grow as Martial Artists. We also know it’s not the style but the individual person.

thomasmoore
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Thanks, Gabriel. I think Sawamura at this time was from point karate Goju-Ryu, so I guess he was not ready for full contact. It would be awesome to do some kickboxing-style history vids. Like a deep dive video into how Kyokushin Karate lead to Dutch Kickboxing via Kenji Kurosaki (and others), who then taught Jan Plas. Another cool one would be the origins of Japanese kickboxing from mixing full-contact karate and Western boxing and the promoter Osamu Noguchi. You're the man!

krishartrum
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I wouldn’t call Sawamura as a “top karate fighter”. He was a showman from the different time. Not to disrespect, but let’s keep it in perspective. On the other hand, his influence on later generations cannot be overstated. There is a value in entertainment.

Nomurasame
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I think karate and karate style kickboxing has gotten better since this fight, but Muay Thai is an old and proven art

MrTooEarnestOnline
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For all those who know....this is a very funny fight....!!! The karateka got his arms and hands disarmed....!!! Karate is the martial art of the "empty hand" ....the tradition used to hit means that the legs and arms of a karate practitioner are like weapons of death....!!! In this fight....the karate practitioner got his arms disarmed by the boxing gloves....!!! Although I respect Muay Thai very much....and although I was trained and participated Muay Thai for almost 10 always believed that real Karate fighters are very dangerous opponents...!!! It is not easy to fight a karate master like ....Mikio like sensei Kanazawa....or sensei Yano ....or sensei Yamada ....and many more....because all these karate fighters were trained to fight very hard....and it would be very easy for them to destroy any opponent....!!! So in this video....they took a karate they totally....disarmed him....

easybusiness
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I started learning karate kyokushin many years ago, and after about 10 years I got black belt, but then i started learning Muay Thai. It’s the strongest stile of fighting

RamMyuay
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Hey Gabriel. Cool video but could you link the original video in the description please ?
Also just wanted to point out that Sawamura was only at the very start of his kickboxing career at this point (he debuted pro kickboxing only one month earlier). Of course he got a lot of victories in sports karate before, but his 200 something record comes from AFTER this fight and AFTER he started to train in proper full contact kickboxing / muay thai

thejoojoo
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Reminds me of the Rick roufus fight where he learned how fierce Muay Thai was as well.

stephencox