No kick boxing is not fake.
boxing use hands. Kick use both.
Kick boxing, also called Muay Thai, is very real.
there are two ways - el puntapie or patada
boxing
Kick boxing is arobic. The difference is in kick boxing you are all ways movng for a long period of time. If kick boxing was anearobic you would only fight for a half minute or a full minute.
KICK-Boxing? Without a doubt not in the top 10. Football, Boxing, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Golf, Hockey, Tennis, NASCAR, INDY Racing. Are all more popular than Kick-Boxing. If you are just talking about BOXING, and not KICK-Boxing than Boxing would rank 4th (Football, Baseball, and Basketball would be ahead) Around the world it would rank 3rd (Soccer and Basketball)
"yes it is boxing" No, this answer is massively incorrect - you CANNOT kick in normal boxing (specifically the Marquis of Queensbury style). However, there were kicks (akin to straight push kick) and throws ("cross buttock" akin to a hip-throw) in bareknuckle boxing in earlier centuries
If you mean 'Do they do Kick Boxing in Japan' the answer would be yes. If you mean what is the martial art native to Japan the way kick boxing is native to Thailand, I would believe it is jujitsu, or perhaps aikido, or even aido.
The French have a style of martial arts called Savate. It involves kicking moves similar to kick boxing.
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wrestling and kick boxing