Ernesto your point about packaging etc. is a good one - but it's off topic. the issue with JWP nad yod's fight - and indeed, with many fights - is that various places think they can change the scoring criteria and still call it Muay Thai. Sure, things need to, and are changing to bring the sport forward and into the mainstream. The scoring isn't one of those things. MMA has a very similar scoring criteria where striking is concerned, the vast majority of it's viewers don't have a clue how to score it, but it still doesn't stop them from enjoying it.

So, in essence, what you're saying may be completely valid but it's irrelevant to the subject at hand. The scoring criteria for thai boxing has already been made and has been used for a long time. There's no excuse for the aussies, or anywhere else for that matter, to make their own set of scoring criteria simply because they can't compete under the original set. And lets be completely honest - that's the case. It doesn't make fights mroe interesting - it makes them look scrappy.

Even the few people who THINK they're scoring thai style are sometimes suspect. Just go back and read WMM's original article about the original fights. The guy clearly doesn't know how to score thai style. Although there may be a slight bias in JWP's favor confusing matters.