When following a fighter through their career from the beginning, one often sees growing pains as they are forced to change, evolve and adapt. Their early naivete is replaced by experience. They abandon what doesn’t work and innovate or adopt new aspects of their game to replace it. Following Karate Combat, one can see this same process take place event to event in the promotion itself. By slowly altering the ruleset, presentation and commentary, it has gone from being somewhat of a joke to carving out its own little niche in the combat sports world.
This is appropriate, of course, since evolution by necessity is the guiding principle of karate.