Muay Thai is known as the art of 8 weapons (two knees, two legs (kicks), two elbows and two hands) Boxing is known as the sweet science BUT uses only fists and usually good dodging (rope a dope, bob and weave, defense)
Never try and see which Art is better because it's not the Art itself thats "better" but the person using that particular art.
So if the person sucks at Muay Thai and the boxer is quite good, odds are the boxer will triumph, and vice versa even though the Muay Thai fighter has training in 8 weapons instead of one. (Also Muay Thai has very good defense incorporated in training as you need to be aware of multiple weapons coming instead of just fists.
A LOT of street fights clinch up at one point or another, I am not saying boxers aren;t good clinching up as a lot of pro boxers clinch up so they understand how that works BUT Muay Thai specifically trains the "MT clinch" which is used to throw the opponent off balance and to use that to throw knees, elbows and even low kicks, or just to throw them to the ground.
If the MT fighter and the boxer are both great......... I would give it to the MT fighter as no boxer is capable of handling the powerful leg and body kicks from a good MT fighter, theres a reason the MT roundhouse kick is compared with a baseball bat.MT fighters train to take and defend punches as well and have that training so the boxer really has no advantage. The stances for both are different as well so the positioning for strikes would be off set by one another.
I am not saying the boxer has no chance, a good boxer has good movement and powerful punches which are difficult to deal with.
Muay Thai triumphs in my opinion. I train MT and boxing as well and I find the boxing more so compliments the MT because even though MT trains boxing as well (MT is sometimes referred to as Thai Boxing) MT more so focuses on powerful kicks, conditioning, powerful knees and a good ability to strike with the elbows, also the Thai clinch is a large part of training as well. So as a result most (with the exception of a few Thai's and most of the best fighters from the Netherlands) MT fighters lack the complete punching ability boxers alone have, due the amount of different things they train.
Bro i think a boxer is way more intelligent than a kickboxer /muay thai because a great boxer like muhammad ali who had such great foot work would totally move out of them high kicks and be well accurate with his punches its really difficult to fight a well kickboxer but a boxer will destroy him just cause he knows when too move out of the way and punch wen he has too as well and as you said a boxer knows how to work on the inside and the outside and if he doesnt well the kickboxer beats him up but a boxer should know some wrestling skills like double leg takedown and when the kickboxer is down he can knock em out in the ground a boxer should know wrestling if he is in a street fight i know both boxing and wrestling iv been in alot of streetfights and they have helped me.
A boxer basically has just his fists as weapon but in a streetfight, he will not be constrained to push, hold, headbutt on the clinch, rabbit punch or hit his opponent whereever including the groin. A good boxer needed just to land a haymaker to stop a kickboxer who generally is not strong in any particular aspect of his game and has to combine all his weapons to fight effectively.
Basically kick boxers/thaiboxers are/were rubbish boxers thats why they go into muay thai or kickboxing. Eg John Wayne Parr . A boxers is way more talented.
it depends on the fighter meaning how good they are and who they are fighting
I know most people will say you can't because of the leg advantage but from what I've been told if you fight close range and close of the leg space boxers will have an advantage because of the supreior punches and use of upper body movement and defense but how would you deal with elbows knees and any extra advice?
