TMA inferior/Lacking?

[HumbleWCGuy]

I have seen Anderson Silva use TKD, I have seen Machida use Shotokan, and I have seen Rashad Evans use Monkey kung fu movements to affect takedowns.

More and more MMA guys are either reinventing the wheel or borrowing from traditional arts so I think that it is hard to say that the techniques don't work and more to do with how things are trained.

I think that the people who have the most trouble with traditional arts are people who don't know how to push themselves or aren't interested in getting hit hard at all. So many TMAist who were softer than a pillow stuffed with bunnies are "hard" now because they can do BJJ, something where they don't get hit. This forum is full of them.

I should say that a lot of these "mmaists" are really just BJJist because they still just LARP with their upright.