Originally Posted by jade_dragon

televised events are the worst thing that ever happened to martial arts. Made it a sport, a joke and spectacle. In general televised fighting is a joke, heavyweight fighting is dead to me from a art form stance, it is though very much alive to me on the business side haha.

I never have and never will train in any school that does exhibition though, I don't even believe in belt tests, if a sefu or sensai can not respect that then I don't need to train there.