Christ what a shambles. Before anyone starts another thread about coaches, promoters etc getting together to take the sport forward and promote it to the masses, which seems to come up annually with no end product, why not start with the basics and get the rules sorted.

If I was an outsider reading this for the first time it would seem like the sport is an unregulated joke that will only ever have a very small niche amongst the populus.

I would take the positive out of this in that a huge problem has been identified and there is now an opportunity to change it for the better, rather than the same old thing emanating time and time again

"My bloke won because he got in two elbows and a jump knee"
"No, mine won because he landed a left body kick and spinning elbow followed by a teep and they score higher".

What? The simpler a sport is the more popular it has a chance of becoming, but Muay Thai will always be firmly embedded with the likes of water polo and lacrosse if even the fighters dont have a clue what they need to be doing to actually win.