First of all, David, great fight and i'm proud to be training muay thai in your classes.

Secondly, MT will only rise in popularity as long as MMA is rising in popularity since MT is the most well rounded striking art and pretty much all MMA fighters train in it to some extent. MMA was what exposed me to MT first and I currently don't train in anything else. I'm sure many other people will enter the sport the same way.

Thirdly, if you think these forums are hurting MT you should check out sherdog.com MMA forums, people bitch on there all the time and it's clearly not hurting MMA, it's often healthier for people to have a place to bitch about things which might otherwise drive them away from the sport.

Lastly, Boxing is being killed by obviously unjust decisions (boxing robberies such as boxing robberies as Lewis-Holyfield I, Saxton-Gavilan, Jones-Si-Hun Park, Leonard-Hearns II and now Quartey-Forrest), boxing promoters who won't make the "super fights" happen, fighters taking dives and a failure of the boxing community to embrace the new generation's form of communication.. the internet. If I want to know about something, I go to the internet. Your dad may have read the newspaper or watched TV to get informed but if MT is to appeal to the younger generation it needs to embrace the internet as MMA has. (which by the way, is notorious for its legions of 'keyboard warriors'). You can say all you want about Boxing being the biggest fight sport ever but at the end of the day it's Boxing promoters that are puzzling over why the crowds of big prize fights have become fewer and fewer, pay-per-view buy-rates have slumped to embarrassing lows and how this “human cockfighting nonsense” that is MMA is gaining ascendancy.

I'd love to see MT get big but sadly there is nobody to take the lead like there is in MMA and from what I can see here, MT is plagued with many of the same shortcomings as boxing is.