Kickboxing Art

The kickboxing is a rather young martial art in comparison to box. Though you can see the word "boxing" in the name of this martial art it is something that is way different from common boxing, from boxing common for Europe. People say it was the United States of America where kickboxing first appeared but they still don't know who the one to invent it was.
Kickboxing first appeared in early 70ths in USA and it was the first experience of full contact fight for people. Kickboxing is provided with some features of boxing though it is impossible to say that it is the deviant from boxing, it is better to say that it is the blend. It is the blend of common European boxing and lots of Eastern martial arts.
As for a person who is the inventor of kickboxing there is no information about it. According to one point of view he was Chuck Norris who was the first one to invent the kickboxing but it is just one of many points of view and so it is hard to call him the inventor of kickboxing. It actually doesn't matter; the main thing is this kind of sport is an art.
This kind of box became very popular and many countries adopted it and that is why there are a lot of various kinds of kickboxing that are colored with cultural peculiarities of the countries-adopters.