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WKN NORTHERN IRELAND

St Patrick’s Day Bash

Belfast - March 17 - 2011

Fight card :

International Team event

Northern Ireland vs Switzerland
K1 Style kickboxing Weight 65kg
Mark Bird Vs Diego Diserens (Switzerland)

Full Contact kickboxing Catchweight Bout
Darren McMullen 78kg Vs Jermey Jossi 80kg (Switzerland)

K1 Style kickboxing Weight 60kg
David Bird Vs Mattio Lo Valvo (Switzerland)

North V South

Low Kick kickboxing Weight 73kg
Johnny Smith Vs Joe Harte (Waterford - Billy O’Sullivan)

Full Contact Kickboxing 75kg
Wayne McCormick Vs Sean O’Neill (Waterford - Billy O’Sullivan)

Full Contact Kickboxing 66kg
Davy Foster Vs Dave Mannion (Galway - Ken Horan)

Full-Contact or Low-kick Weight
Gary Jess Vs Paudy O’Conner (Galway - Ken Horan)

Belfast V London

Full-Contact or Low-kick Weight 68kg
Stuart Jess Vs tba / Marty Cox Gym TBA
Full Contact kickboxing 76kg
Ken Horan Vs tba / Marty Cox Gym TBA
report by Billy MURRAY :

Former world featherweight champion Gary Hamilton is preparing to fight Father Time in a bid to leave the stage with a world title belt around his waist once more. Hamilton, who lost his WKN world title in May last year to Swiss-based Rwandan Patrick Kinigamazi following a sapping 12-round slugfest in Geneva, will return to the ring on St Patrick’s Day at Belfast’s Holiday Inn.

Hamilton will be one of the main attractions on a 12-fight card on March 17 and plans to make sure he doesn’t need the luck of the Irish on his latest career mission.

Chef Hamilton, who packed out the Ulster Hall on numerous occasions during a world title reign that started in 2002, will turn 31 in May - and accepts this may be his last chance to make a second impression on the title scene.
He said: I lost that fight with Kinigamazi and although I was fighting the weight and had trouble with it beforehand, I believe I won it. The decision didn’t go my way but the outcome did give me an almighty kick up the backside.
“I have had enough time to think about it and to consider what I want from the sport before my body tells me it has had enough.
“I am going to go out as a world champion - that’s the aim and I am confident I can return to the top.”

Hamilton will now compete as a lightweight and light-welterweight - glad to see his featherweight days behind him.
He added: “I was killing myself making the weight and probably should not have taken the fight against Kinigamazi - but you live and learn.
“I’ve had my wake-up call and now I am focussed on bringing home another title. I would love to challenge Kinigamazi again. He knows deep down I beat him and I know that was a bad night at the office for me. I had no energy and my focus was on other things going on in my life.
“My fitness is back and I am feeling close to fight sharpness. I used to struggle to get out of bed for a 6am run and now I am bouncing out of bed at 5am. I am constantly thinking of that defeat and putting things right again. I would fight Kinigamazi tomorrow, I am that determined.”

Hamilton is thankful his career-long coach Billy Murray, the former four-time world champion, is hoping to secure him a bout next month against a yet to be named opponent.
He said: “This is my opportunity to show people - most of all my coach - the old Gary Hamilton is back. I will go out to make an impression and by the end of the year I intend to have made a big impression with a title shot.”
Also on the St Patrick’s Day Bash show is young contender Mark Bird, one of the toughest and most stylish kickboxers to emerge from Murray’s Prokick Gym.
Bird will compete in an K1-style International Team event, against Diego Diserens of Switzerland.

WKN Malta: Is represented by: Sensi Adrian Axsisa and anyone wishing to participate under the WKN Banner, in the Maltese Islands should contact Master Noel Mercieca, of the ‘Ying Yang Kickboxing club’ - The links provided below will guide and provide you with all details.

WKN Malta @ Ying Yang Kickboxing Club

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Battle at the Beach - WBC fights in Pattaya

Thailand‘s premier resort city Pattaya on 2 January will stage the annual “Battle of the Beach” with a first class card of international Muaythai combatants. This year the event will be taged at Mike‘s Department Store featuring 8 contests. The main contest will be a championship showdown for the WBC Muaythai Supermiddleweight International Title between Canadian Alain “The Crusader” Sylvester and Malaysian Alex Lim.

Hashim is a top ranked Lumpinee Stadium fighter with a first class record of 34 fights, 31 wins, two losses and 1 draw record, while Lim is an experienced journeyman from Malaysia. On the same card the WBC International Heavyweight Champion Ricardo van de Boss will be fighting along with Robie Hagaman who is Holland‘s hottest teenage talent trained by legend Muaythai Dutchman Ramon Dekker.

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Malta Thai Boxing Club is Malta’s only full time Muay Thai and fitness club, with classes to suit all ability’s and offering a friendly training atmosphere. Why not drop in or give them a call? they look forward to seeing you!

Muay thai and fitness gym at 150 Rodolfu street, Sliema, Malta.

Tel: 00356 - 99058542

Sessions – Coach is Apollo who has been training in traditional Muay Thai for 15 years and is a licensed instructor for 9 of those years.

Apollo – “I have been tutored throughout as a student, instructor and fighter by Al Oakley, the founder and head instructor of West Area kick Thai (WAKT) the largest and most successful Thai Boxing club in the Southwest of England”.

Apollo – “I have travelled to Thailand on many occasions with WAKT and have been personally coached by Thakoon Pongsupha who is the owner of the world famous Sasiprapa Gym in Bangkok. I have also travelled to Thailand with both my instructor and some of our top fighters to help prepare them for championship fights back in the U.K.”

Malta Thai Boxing – fills in an important gap in local martial arts and offers new possibilities to followers and practitioners of martial arts.

http://www.maltathaiboxing.com

.Tel: 00356 - 99058542

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