Oh, so not only is he using an unpopular combat style, he isn't even doing his best at it because he "can't reveal his true power". Seriously, this is entertainment. Why did he go into show business with such a half-assed motivation? Why did he even bother to train with a master that would handicap him, if the battles he's taking part of don't matter? This guy dug his own grave, jumped in, and then started filling the hole all on his own. And it's hard to feel bad for someone when their goal was something so vacuous like "being popular". That's all this is. It's like esports, with a player in a team picking poor strategies, not communicating, and being boring on interviews. Of course you're going to get hate, that's part of the deal when you're competing with thousands others for the top spot.