I will probably get a mountian of stick for saying this but who gives a toss about all the different rules people keep making up as they go along!!! I'm Muay Thai through and through, done it all my life, but in my younger years as a fighter when we got NOTHING I would have jumped at the chance to fight for £5,000....and you could have called it a K1-THAI-KICKBOXING-KICK KNEE-SPINNING BIRD KICK competition for all I would have cared....5K is a lot of money and would have been basically fighting Muay Thai with a few technics removed!!!

The simple facts of what we do gets lost in all the back-stabbing and insults that go on in these threads. Some of us are fighters, some are instructors and some are ex-fighters. The bottom line is we have ALL spent years trying to make this sport the best it can be, all the blood, sweat, tears, highlights and disappointments has put this sport (by whatever name you choose to call it) on the map AT LAST!!!

Good luck with this event and I truely hope it works, it's nice to see fighters finally getting paid good money and great promoters willing to pay it.

Please remember one thing, weather you are a fighter, instructor, spectator or someone with an opinion....THIS SPORT IS NOTHING WITHOUT US!!!!