06-20-2007, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by RebLMunkE
I'm with Akia I find it hard to watch the WCL....And I like Kickboxing it comes off as one of those old school events that Bruce Lee could never stand.
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It should be remembered that the WCL is a team sport that has to have a point system. They cannot waste time with 12-round kickboxing matches that bore people to death. If they did that, then one event would last all night and all day. Nobody, and I mean nobody, will watch that. But, I posted the point system above. It is NOT one-point per punch or kick or any of that BS.
The winner gets five points from each judge plus any penalty points. The loser gets four points or less. It's one round of fast paced action. They do that so that they can show an entire event on a single one-hour TV show. You get 12 to 14 fights in an hour. Not one or two fights an hour like on the old ISKA TV shows on ECSN or one fight per half-hour on the K-1 TV shows on ESPN2. And, those fights are mostly boring.
Look, WCL is not the best of all the combat promotions. It's likely not the best kickboxing for you hard core purists. But, it's entertaining. I liked watching it. For me, that trumps all the hyped up stuff we get normally in the world of kickboxing (excluding real true Muay Thai in Thailand). |
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