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Phil - If you were in a fight with someone would you try to beat them by using nothing but teeps and jabs? If you do that how can you be deemed to have won the fight? The one big punch and kick might not be enought to win the round and you can expect to win a fight doing so little. Its a FIGHT.
Carl - "For exposure, growth, better purses etc, we have to appeal to the masses and in a way that is exactly what Super league and K1 have done. People can knock those styles all they like but the simplified versions have overtaken the traditional."
K-1 is massive in Japan and has exported to one or 2 countries with all the money behind it but is not massive here (the few K-1 shows we have had did well but were by no means massive) or anywhere else really. Where it is big its because its an exported product and the only one of the year. Superleague did well because it had money behind it but where is it now?
The Dutch have massive shows usually with a mix of MT and MMA but apart from that where is the massive difference that everyone is talking about?
In France they have very big shops that are purely MT and well as other styles.
In Thailand they have shows where there are a lot more tahn 10,000 regularly.
I dont agree that its the rules that makes different styles more or less popular. Some sports are more organised and established (boxing for example) but certailny in the UK MT is by far a bigger spectator sport than K-1 or superleague its just not so well organised and doesnt have the money behind it. I have been saying for years that the quality needs to improve before it really takes off. This is happening now and I really dont think we need to change the rules, just explain them to everyone a bit better.