Who do people feel is the best kickboxer of all time? BENNY THE JET URQUIDEZ DON THE DRAGON WILSON DENNIS ALEXIO BILL WALLACE JOE LEWIS BOB SAPP FRANCOIS BOTHA JERRY TRIMBLE Any weight division the best overall & why? P.S. Francois Botha & Bob Sapp a joke there f course!!!
BILL WALLACE 1980 - PKA Middleweight Champion Bill Wallace retired as the undefeated Professional Karate Association (PKA) Middleweight Champion after defeating Bill Biggs in a 12-round bout in June 1980. Known to the Karate world simply as "Superfoot," symbolic of his awesome left leg, which was once clocked in excess of 60 mph, Wallace left a string of battered and bruised bodies along the martial arts fighting trail. --- Incidentally, I came second in the PKA nationals this year - 25 years on from when he won them I like how 4 of those you mentioned were PKA fighters Anyway - yeah Bill Wallace takes it for me.
why on earth are bob sapp and botha in there? anyway, id say benny the jet, despite his sometimes overhyped performances. he was still the best for his weightclass in American kickboxing
Bill "Superfoot" Wallace. I believe Kwajman has a pic of himself and the legend in his photo gallery here on MAP.
Gurkan "The Ultimate Fighting Machine" Ozkan and Stan " The Man" Longinidis should also be on that list.
I'd say it's a tie between Benny Urquidez & Jean Yves Theriault. Both excellent with hands and feet. Bob Thurman was pretty good in the day too. I would've put a vote in for Don Wilson, except at the last fight I saw him in Las Vegas against Dewey Cooper, he clearly lost, but was given the decision. Everyone there booed him big time, and the look on his face said he knew he lost.
thats hardly his fault though. it could be worse, he could be like masato and be ecstatic about being handed a win he clearly didnt earn. I think if we expanded this to european rules- with low kicks and knees allowed- then Rob Kaman would have to right up at the top as well.
many people say that the jet has great hands; but wild flailing seemed to be his game in the one fight that i saw of his. maybe it was a bad night. i died a little inside after seeing that fight.
Rick "The Jet" Roufus was a good American kickboxer before K1. And Dale "Apollo" Cook wasn't half bad either.
It was precisely that disinclination that kept him out of "oriental rules" for so long, as I hear it.
bennys record in thailand is a bit exaggerated- 1) he never fought under full muay thai rules. 2) he never fought against the best. he was invited to lumpinee and refused. 3) he won a fight, where there were no knees or elbows allowed. at that time in muay thai, those were the main attacks. 4)he lost 2 fights, but they were changed to draws or no contests in order to keep his record nice and shiny.