Probably my only post this year.
The answer is, everyone talked about support but no one wanted to sacrifice. That's it. We can bullshit for life about greedy promoters, failed systems, orgs are to blame etc. But the bottom line is the community were not prepared to build for the future. So they didn't.

Therefore the only development has been within the amateurs, because that's about as goo as FC is going to get. Any money, exposure etc is now directed towards K1, Enfusion, Glory type styles.

The recent development of headguards coming off in higher level contests follows the lead of the ABA. and has been successful. And the 7 round duration is an attempt to build on the amateur success and make a title at that level more credible and worthy of having.

That IMHO is all positive, and about as good as it's going to get in FC, ever.

I appreciate it's not everyones' cup of tea but may be if they had contributed a little more than an empty 'know it all' opinion at the time of re-development they could have had things the way they wanted it.

This is not new information really, just a reiteration of what has been and what will be. FC is pretty much where it belongs.Those who wanted to be more progressive, and sooner have moved on and done well under other disciplines, and well done to them!