Importance of talent

[seppuku]

In the opinion of the various people on this forum, how large a part does talent play in making someone an effective fighter in the muay thai ring?
Training matters, conditioning matters. How relevent can talent be? Perhaps someone will pick up techniques faster, however it seems to be practice that matters more.
I'm going to vote that talent is too difficult to detect for it to have any importance, but that could be because of my inexperience.

What opinion do people here hold? Cheers

edit: sorry that's poorly expressed, its late here...

[Rhanor]

I think talent definitly plays a large role in the outcome of your training. There are just people who are meant to be fighters and are natually good at it. Ive seen people fight who know how to fight and know how to protect themselfs but lack that aggressiveness or edge someone who understands fighting on an instictive level would have and loose fights all the time no matter how long they train. Anyone can be great though, dont get me wrong...you just have too either to be born with that edge or work your ass off to understand it.

[Damian Mavis]

A well conditioned high stamina fighter will beat the snot out of the talented fighter in the end.... just give it a few rounds. But when you combine talent with good condition, I think thats when you get champions.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[southpaw14]

I think talent helps training. For somone to pick up fighting naturally they will think it is there thing and its what there good at so they should become the best they can. Compared to somone who tries and tries but just cant seem to get the kick or punch right might give up knowing it will take too much hard work to get good.

[Warrior189]

Well talent will help with understanding basic moves faster than others but it alone cant make you a good fighter. I think hard work can beat born talent ever time. Yup.