Joe Rogan, perhaps, has been one of the most out spoken on topics like this but here it is. Straight from the horse's mouth, "were not morons, all of us". What more can be said, but decisions like this one are the end of boxing as we know it. Pacquiao won that fight and unless boxing wakes up they have a similar problem that TKD has; as they stand, they are dying.
Boxing could have a come back and take ticket and PPV sales away from MMA all over again, but they long ago stopped giving the fans what they want, in this case it's Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. That fight may never happen now, and boxing is again building it's own pine box.
TKD parallels this same situation, Albee it in a different manor, but a self made pine box non the less. If TKD does not wake up and give the people what they want then they too are going to be victims of Dana White and his brilliant business strategies. Giving the people what they want.
The main difference in TKD is that it's not really about what the "people" want. The people involved have what they want, in order to expand TKD we are going to have to give the bystanders what they want, and that's real fighting. Not what is out there today in the TKD sport as we see it.
TKD has to be profitable for the fighters, and not just the top three in each country that competes in the Olympics, but in an integration format. Any good TKD kicker, or master instructor could probably join up with a MMA camp and start, for money, coaching kicking drills for the fighters. They may have to take on more than one fighter to make ends meet, because the fights in MMA are not quite paying like boxing, but they teach multiple students anyways. TKD needs to step up and higher boxing coaches at their schools, then transition TKD into kick boxing, again some money there for sure.
Boxing is like horse racing, dying, but TKD has something it can learn from all of this. Boxing would not be dying if MMA and the UFC were not doing things right. So let the lesson be learned and stop living in a box, a pine box waiting to be buried, and resurrect the truth in TKD. The amazing kicking, the fantastic hand strikes, the shear power and understanding of timing and angles. The forms and patterns,
the Tuls, which teach a system of total elimination of opponent, we need to embrace what TKD is about and not fall victim to the struggles that boxing is facing, which is an ever growing interest and understanding of true martial arts.
Peace.
