Boxing or Martial Arts - Better for Defending Yourself

In self defense classes, you will be taught basic martial arts techniques. This is important so that you will have better tools to protect yourself. With such basic martial arts skill, you can at least prevent attackers from totally imposing their
will on you. At most, you can disable the attacker and then run away to ask for help.

Whether your self defense techniques are from boxing, karate or judo as long as you are comfortable utilizing it, then that will be good. It is not so much on what form of martial arts you will be using, but it will be on selectively taking
techniques from these different martial arts form for your effective use when the time comes.