Thai Boxing vs Boxing

So doing boxing to get proficient then a little bit of muay thai on the side to learn other striking and clinch is the best option?

Seems a good option

how long is a piece of string?

People want simple answers where there are none. You'd be better off focusing on where you can get the best quality of training. The USA for example, is a mecca for boxing, but otoh, has some of the shittiest muay thai schools on the planet.

Just learn bare knuckle boxing, old school savate, and catch wrestling.

Elbows too. In close you can put as much force as you want into an elbow and it's very very low risk of comming of bad for you.

It might be easier to supplement muay thai with boxing. I imagine it would be super frustrating to get good at boxing and then go to a muay thai gym and try to break old habits getting your lead leg chopped round after round.

Thai is better than American. Thai has longer ranger, twice as many attacks (more than that really) and their conditioning is WAY better than standard boxing. If you are a skinnier dude go Thai, if you're thicker go boxing, just play to your strengths... And yes, the bladed stance in boxing makes their lead leg a massive target, but that can always be changed (Tyson had a more flat on stance). Imo if you're looking for a standup style, Dutch kickboxing is the way to go.

Why not just do Savate rather then MT.

You can get better at it faster then MT and it perfectly compliments Boxing.

>Dutch kickboxing
Yeah, Bas Rutten is an absolute fucking animal.

Most Legendary Thai fighters have had a strong history in Boxing that gives them really good evasion ability
But they're fairly equal sports to me