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the difference is people knowing boxing, kickboxing and MT would work in striking. There's no chinese boxing practitioner dominating K-1 max or transitioning from it to boxing like nak muay fighters or kickboxers have done, or boxers the other way around. Or someone from that background or from Aikido coming to MMA and dominating. Meaning their cross-training transition has been historically useless, while those other arts have shown effective results there and are visibly effective.
But for the longest time karate and tkd for example were seen as shit too. With no "proven" effectiveness, until guys like machida, wonderboy and pettis start tearin it up. The video of the tkd guy getting slammed a bunch of times by travis fulton has been seen 3 million times on youtube alone. And to this day there are tons of comments saying "that tae kwon do crap doesnt work in real fighting". Therefor i will have an open mind with regards to any martial art that has dedicated practitioners.
Remember, people thought the world was flat and that anyone who thinks we could be standing on a roundish ball is stupid because we would fall off.