viable is not the same thing as rewarded or even encouraged. sorry but if MT was the juggernaut style you fanboys always make it out to be then you wouldn't see MMA guys pairing it with boxing head movement or karate footwork etc. fact is that traditional MT is nothing more than an obsolete style of fighting and frankly not even a necessary addition for MMA. you can get by on basically pure boxing (diaz bros, garbrandt) you can do well with pure kickboxing (hunt, velasquez) but you cannot be a competent striker in MMA using only MT. Even Anderson Silva who everyone makes over as some MT god was only as successful as he was when he was using boxing techniques. As far as I'm concerned MT is in the TKD and Kenpo category: a nice addition to a full striking game but hardly substantial on its own and hardly a Necessity.