Originally Posted by Kellen Bassette
I'll agree with you on the roundhouse kick, most fighters have adapted the Thai style there...(though not all, Machida, for one, throws a snapping roundhouse)...but Muay Thai, for the most part, doesn't train side kicks. A few guys throw them, the vast majority don't. You could just as well say a Thai boxer doing a side thrust kick borrowed it from TCMA. Front kicks, it depends. The teep is from Thai boxing, but the front thrust kick and snap kick are not. There's a lot of those being used as well. Those come from TCMA, Karate and TKD. They weren't perfected by kick boxers, they were borrowed by kick boxers.