1. No money in it,... ive heard this time and time again and am sick of hearing this,....

But starting from where it started ... man, this is a ridiculous situation. I am receiving mails from the posting boards I moderate in my place with things like "I am willing to commit into K1 business, where can I train, my record is of (follows a totally irrelevant record k1-wise, although maybe respectable as amateur). Lol ! Does someone make money in amateur boxing, even after being X times national champion (which is hard as nails in amateur boxing in consecrated countries) and earning - say - a bronze in world amateur events. Haha. People accept to run marathon and earn bananas, throw javelin or fence or grapple and earn chewing gum. Any smart ass with a blackbelt fancies him Le Banner. This is the last cause of not having a sports discipline grow.
And let's face it, pro business is the last one to help amateur mass basis improve and enlarge. Pro business will rather destroy it if ill managed, by virtue of money and not the opposite - bring the carcass they say, vermin will breed before the vultures.