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Osamu Noguchi (野口修, 1934 - ) is the founder of Japanese kickboxing. He is also known as a promoter who has rendered meritorious service for early kickboxing. The term kickboxing (キックボクシング) was created by Osamu Noguchi for a variant of Muay Thai and Karate that he created in the 1950s. The term was later used by the American variant. When used by the practitioners of those two styles, it usually refers to those styles specifically.

[edit] See also

• World Kick Boxing Association: The international kickboxing sanctioning body established by Noguchi.
• Kickboxing

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