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Tremendous difference. Kickboxing is a sport/art that combines the kicks of Eastern martial arts with Western boxing. Mixed Martial Arts is a competition and training format that involves striking and grappling on the feet and on the ground. It is not, itself, a martial art, but a combination of several, including kickboxing.

Mixed Martial Arts includes grappling (wrestling), and uses elbow and knee strikes.
kickboxing doesn’t allow you to grab your opponent. and only allows hand and foot strikes.

Mixed Martial Arts allows you to you any number of combat sports in the same fight. If you watch UFC Bouts you will see Brazilian Ju Jitsu, Grappling, boxing, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Muay Thai, Kickboxing and other disciplines. In order to be successful in the UFC for example, you need to be well versed in several disciplines, otherwise your opponent will exploit and attack you where you are weakest. If you entered into the UFC at that weight, you would be considered a Light Heavyweight.

Mixed Martial Arts is everything! Any martial arts except the one that uses a weapon!

mixed martial arts is any martial arts combined like jiu jitsu, muay thai, judo , karate , kung fu, etc.

kickboxing is basically stand up! like punches and kicks.

MMA is Mixed Martial Arts it’s everything combined, wrestling, kickboxing, boxing, muay thai, jiu jitsu, judo, ect ect ect.

Kickboxing is just kickboxing. punches, and kicks.

Mixed Martial Arts isn’t a certain set of techniques, literally mixing more than one strict flavor of fighting. Kickboxing is boxing and kicking together allowing for a bit more strategy to beat another athlete and it could be a part of an MMA combination, but it is definitely not a Mixed martial art.