First off my opinion will probably be disregard on here or get a hail of abuse seeing I'm from Neil Holden's School of wacky werewolf Kickboxing and not a student from a gym of pure 100% muay thai till I die, also holding a 3rd dan in said kickboxing system plus being regarded as no good as a kickboxer not having step up to pro thai boxing from amatuer A.K.A Kickboxing (personal choice £50 to fight if lucky no thanks i'll keep the pads and body armour on, never mind for the honour of the art nonsense) ok allegiances stated, critics of my amatuer career on here answered, here I go with my question and opionion.

does the uk muay thai community feel threaterned by the success of K-1 style Kickboxing in europe? does it fear it so much that uk muay thai wants to distence itself from Kickboxing proclaiming muay thai is not a style of Kickboxing it is just simply muay Thai. But on the other hand it seems to want to claim K-1 for its self calling it a form of modified Thai rules.

My feeling is yes UK muay Thai fears K-1 success in Europe and if Glory or K-1 Global were to start promoting K1 Kickboxing galas in the UK to the same level, they would basically soak up all the top UK talent as the top fighters would now be demanding top dollar to fight knowing that K-1 would pay and would obviously convert to the K-1 style to better their chances of success, leaving muay Thai struggling to find the money to attract fighters and now being used as a stepping stone to K-1 by the N and C class fighters which now those fights would look very much like K-1 as no elbows, ofcourse with exception to the clinch.
this could also lead to muay Thai being referred to by the generic term Kickboxing. So is there a bit of a fear of possible loss of identity?