worlds deadliest martial arts

This one is a lot more intense than it sounds. In fact, they should have called it maim and kill, since that was the main goal in mind when this system of fighting was developed during the 18th and 19th centuries in the southern United States. The term gouging was also used to describe this fighting style due to the fact that one of its most prolific techniques was eye gouging, and not the classic Three Stooges finger poke either.

Bokator is a Cambodian martial art that dates back to the armies of Angkor, who dominated the battlefields of Indochina over 1700 years ago. Bokator translates as pounding a lion, referring to an ancient legend telling of a Bokator practitioner who found himself toe to toe with a man eating lion. As the story goes, the warrior killed the bloodthirsty beast with a single, perfectly placed knee strike.