[myrion]

Well, to be honest, as a general style with typical practitioners, I would say not very good. TKD has several aspects that are not taught on a regular basis in most clubs. And no, MMA is not longer a mix of several distinct styles, MMA has grown more or less into its own style, due to the high level that has been reached. In the early days of the UFC, Gracie JJ dominated because most of Royce's opposition did not have any formal grappling training. Today all competitiors know how to grapple, and it is mostly about how well you do both on the ground and standing up, modern MMA-athletes needs to have a solid foundation in both games, AND ALSO in the game that goes down between the stand up and the ground. This is an aspect you will not be able to train if you only do a stand-up style such as TKD or Kick-Boxing and combine it with attending a Judo-club, or a BJJ-club with no focus on stand-up-strategies. You will get a good foundation on the ground, and you will get a good foundation standing up, but you will miss certain aspects such as how to get a good kickboxer to the ground, since you will probably not get much striking and kicking at a typical Judo-club.

And personally, I do not like the "this one person who...", "my master does...". That tells little or nothing about the art, that tells about a single person. I feel that what is representative for an art, is how its typical practitioners, chosen from several clubs are able to perform, not how some single guy who probably does as much MMA-realated training as he does traditional TKD is able to perform, or how a master who trained in a totally different manner than the normal "MA should be for all"-type of training many clubs practice today.

My impression when reading threads like this one, is that a whole lot of practitioners out there just seems like they are not willing to accept that certain ways of training will give you advantages to fight in a certain way(MMA or NHB in this case). A TKD practitioner would probably do better than an untrained person, but to expect to be able to compete with dedicated MMA-fighters with only traditional TKD-training, is an illusion, and before anyone can show me a statistic that tells me otherwise, I do not think that there is anything that can convince me otherwise.