ABOUT KICKBOXING Kickboxing is a full-contact combat sport and a form of boxing based on punching and kicking.  The fight takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouth guards, shorts, and bare feet to favor the use of kicks.  Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, general fitness, or for competition.  Kickboxing is one of the most popular combat sports around the world.  Kickboxing derives its name from classic boxing and it incorporates punching and other.  The sport comes from the traditional martial arts basis for providing self-defense and combines the martial art kicks of karate with the punches of boxing.