To reach the bronze medal = win all the fights but the semifinals in superheavy division, one is required to have 4 matches (as it occurred in the above case). A 24-man tournament with 5 matches to the top nr 1 and receiving heavy blows even if no legkicks is a tough thing to do.

I admit that most fc fighters use fc just as a platform to migrate to more permissive/complete disciplines yet it is still a legitimate sport. If the training curriculum is carefully designed one can survive in both legkick and no-legkick disciplines with good results.

Supposedly fc will finally die, kb format with legkick rules should supply the empty space and as far as my place goes for, there is still a consistent lack of good amateur coaches let alone pro level. MT or k1 format as universal fighting disciplines are still a dream. Out of 10 kids migrated in 3 years to my place from gyms pretending to do "MT" only 3 had consistent experience in legkick format and none in clinching/kneeing/elbowing fighting routines more than anecdotic level. All the rest did actually fc and trained anecdotically for legkicks with a mixture of boxing plus kicks which leads more or less to bad habits (excuse me for being haughty but seasoned trainees and coaches will for sure know what I mean). And this said whilst keeping in mind that I do NOT say about myself I am a MT coach.

Nevertheless, I can think about the opposite and say that mass basis for MT is present and people grow educated about differences. It is better to recruit trainees from other contact sports be them built on some bad habits than to have to re-invent the wheel as shotokan practitioners had to when fc was the leading guide. And with all due respect for classic karate (although they sometimes demand much more respect than they are willing to pay) I had a sad day when a kid with 9 years of classic pointfighting training came to my place and asked to be trained in kb. He was 19 and held some medals in local competitions. It took not more than a blink to see that he was built on such bad habits that it would have been better for him not to have trained at all. At a certain point, he abandoned. Comparatively, boxing, fc, tkd, kyokushin are things upon which one can hope to build something even if it'd be desirable to have the trainees start MT from the beggining. People should be taken from where they are not from where we wish to. Goes the same for training strikers even from the "purest" MT background to face ufc/MMA environment.