Uke...although I agree with
some of your conclusions...I personally think it is sort of cowardly how you've essentially called out Brewer in your first sentence as an example knowing full well he isn't a part of this arguement. Why take potshots at the guy after he got the boot? Is this how you get your final words in on him, when he can't debate his position?
And as for this GEM of a statement -> "If you think you're going to wrestle or thai-box a man with a knife and his 2 friends who are also involved, then you're suicidal. "
...um...no...
I'd give them my money, plead and beg for my life...and then if it came to it, I would resolve myself to my fate, Jakie Chan. I sincerely doubt any of the "it's too deadly to practice on another person" WWII RBSD/Cestari/Nelson/Fairbairn refarbished gung-fu tactics would work any better than highly polished against a non-resisting opponent "combat" sport tactics...the result is the same...baring luck, a small miracle, or the wherewithal to get the hell out of dodge, the individual would be dead or in the hospital.
Or... "what would the muay thai guy do after he was stabbed?"
...um...what would you do?
Bleed alot? Not notice immediately and then try to cover up your vitals, and then stumble off and die after the knifer runs off? Freeze up and then go into shock?
How about just keel over if the knife penetrates the spine, the heart, or the main pipelines into the heart? How about losing motor function as the person slices randomly through tendons and ligaments in your upper body and then opens you up?
Or...you use your ninja-esque reflexes to pull off the split second correct response that allows you to minimize the damage of the initial stab and subdue or kill your assailant. Who ho. Dream on.
Realistically, isn't a knifing is going to be defensive and involve wild slashing, or aggressive and be crashing in and thrusting a'la sewing machine...or a single stab from somebody who isn't fully committed to ending you and which may *poof* appear out of thin air when a stranger bumps into you? I mean...you're about REALITY right? Like SURVIVOR?
You want to train for THOSE scenarios...track and field...or falling down and bleeding.