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INTERNATIONAL FULL-CONTACT KICKBOXING
SHOW
"REFUSE TO LOSE 4"
MARCH 8th 2008
ENGLAND
 Vs
 WALES |
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Venue: Perdiswell Leisure Centre,
Bilford Road, Worcester,
WR3 8DX.
From M5
exit at Junction 6: Follow signs to Warndon, Business Park and Hospital
going straight over 2 roundabouts, at the end of the road T junction traffic
lights, turn left. past MacDonald's to roundabout, turn right, go under a
railway bridge to T junction turn right, just over hump backed bridge, turn
right to Perdiswell Leisure Centre.
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM BOUT 1 -
6.40pm
RED CORNER WELSH TEAM |
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Tom Smart
14yrs 61kg 5' 9"
2 Wins 1 Loss |
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Lincoln Black Dragons
Coached by
Pete Cook |
3 Rounds
-69kg Schoolboy
Demo
LIGHT
MIDDLEWEIGHT |
WINNER on points
Adam Powell
15yrs ~ 67kg ~ 5ft 10
2 wins |
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Swansea D.F.K.
Coached by Marc Davies
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM BOUT
2 -
6.45pm
RED CORNER WELSH TEAM |
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WINNER on points
Dean Hoare
16yrs 65kg
5ft 8
3 Wins 1 draw |
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A.F.C.~M.P.T
Gloucester
Coached by:
Alan Carter & Martin Paradine |
3 Rounds
-69kg Men
LIGHT
MIDDLEWEIGHT |
Manju Damuni
32yrs 61kg |
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WUMA
SRI LANKA
Coached by:
Caminda Dais |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM BOUT
3 - 7pm
RED CORNER ENGLISH TEAM |
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STEVIE CUMMINGS
14yrs
65kg
170cm
1st Fight |
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Tewkesbury Gym
Coached by:
Mark Smith
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3 Rounds
-65kg Schoolgirl
WELTERWEIGHT |
WINNER
on points
Natalie Ward
14yrs
65kg
168cm
Novice with one win |
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BJJC Haslingdon Gym
Coached by
Leon Ward &
Bob Laughland
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 4 - 7.30pm
RED CORNER ENGLISH TEAM |
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Luke Hewitt
20yrs 69kg 6'
1"
1st fight |
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Cheltenham
University Gym
Coached by:
Carly Williams |
3 Rounds
- 69kg MENS
LIGHT
MIDDLEWEIGHT |
WINNER on points
Vladimir Haspra22yrs 67kg
171cm |
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Oxford Gym
Coached by
Clive Parkinson |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 5 - 7.45pm
RED CORNER ENGLISH TEAM |
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Jim Soden
24yrs 72kg 5ft 9
1st fight |
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Tewkesbury Gym
Coached by:
Mark Smith |
3 Rounds
- 72kg MENS
MIDDLEWEIGHT |
WINNER
on points
Mahdi Mirzaeej
29yrs 72kg 175cm
1 loss |
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Bicester Gym
Coached by
Clive Parkinson |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 6 - 8pm
RED CORNER WELSH TEAM |
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WINNER ~ ENGLISH CHAMP
PAUL MAYFIELD
30yrs 75kg
5"11
2 Wins ~ 2
Losses |
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Lincoln
BDMA
Coached by
COLIN MURESS |
3 Rounds-
ENGLISH TITLE
-75kg MENS
SUPER
MIDDLEWEIGHT |
Johny Bird
16yrs 72kg
5ft 11
2 wins |
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North Wales Martial Arts
Bangor Gym
Coached by
Chris Edghill |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 7 - 8.15pm
RED CORNER ENGLISH TEAM |
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Daniel Speck
24yrs 73kg
5ft 10
WEIGHED IN THEN WENT HOME WITHOUT CONTACTING THE
OFFICIALS |
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Grimsby Martial Arts
Academy
Coached by
Mick Blythin / Andy
Allenby |
3 Rounds
-75kg MENS
SUPER
MIDDLEWEIGHT |
Steve East
22yrs 75kg
5' 11"
Lost to Johny Bird, then
Bird fought again and lot to Paul Mayfield or the English Title. |
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Cheltenham
University Gym
Coached by:
Carly Williams |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM BOUT
8 - 8.30pm
RED CORNER WELSH TEAM |
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WINNER
on points
David Jones
21yrs 79kg
6ft 1
1st Fight |
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Fitness Academy
Chelmsford Gym
Coached by
Laurence Sandum |
3 Rounds-
- 80kg MENS
LIGHT
HEAVYWEIGHT |
Scott Davies
16yrs ~ 79kg ~ 6 '3"
One
win
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Swansea D.F.K.
Coached by Marc Davies
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 9 - 8.45pm
RED CORNER WELSH TEAM |
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WINNER by KO 1st Rd
Julian Lingard
34yrs 84kg 6ft |
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Black Dragons
Bristol Gym
Coached by Rita & Matt Ogden |
3 Rounds
- 85kg MENS
CRUISERWEIGHT |
Ashley Carroll
19yrs ~ 82kg ~ 6ft 1
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Swansea D.F.K.
Coached by Marc Davies
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 10 - 9pm RED CORNER ENGLAND TEAM |
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James Barnsley
23yrs
82kg 178cm
WENT HOME WITHOUT CONTACTING
THE OFFICIALS |
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Grimsby Martial Arts
Academy
Coached by
Mick Blythin / Andy
Allenby |
3 Rounds
- 85kg
MENS
CRUISERWEIGHT |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 11 - 9.15pm
RED CORNER ENGLISH TEAM |
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WINNER
Mohammad Babazad
25yrs 85kg 179cm
Mark Smith at 73kg moved up and fought Mohammad
but was stopped in the first round. Mohammad won the
-85kg WUMA
Pro European Title |
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Khon Ha Oxford Gym
Coached by
Derek Collins |
3 Rounds
- 85kg MENS
CRUISERWEIGHT |
Daniel Lind
20yrs 84kg
178cm
WEIGHED IN THEN WENT HOME
WITHOUT CONTACTING THE OFFICIALS |
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Grimsby Martial Arts
Academy
Coached by
Mick Blythin / Andy
Allenby |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM BOUT
12 - 9.45pm RED CORNER
WELSH TEAM |
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WINNER
Alwyn Harris
34yrs 92kg 6ft 3 |
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Lincoln Black Dragons
Coached by
Pete Cook
&
COLIN MURESS |
3 Rounds
- 95kg
MENS
HEAVYWEIGHT |
Marc Davies
45yrs ~ 93kg ~ 5ft 10
One win One loss |
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Swansea D.F.K.
Coached by Marc Davies
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 13 - 10pm
RED CORNER ENGLISH TEAM |
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Callum Thompson
17yrs 86kg 6'1" |
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Lincoln Black Dragons
Coached by
Pete Cook |
3
Rounds
- 95kg
MENS
SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT |
WINNER
Roderick Jones
23yrs 6ft 3
92kg
1 loss |
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MARKS SCHOOL OF BLACKBELTS
Birmingham Gym
Coached by Steve Marks |
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BLUE CORNER ENGLAND
TEAM
BOUT 14 - 10.15pm RED CORNER
ENGLISH TEAM |
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MARK
"ICEMAN"
SMITH |
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WUMA HQ
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE
Coached by Richard & Simone Hopkins |
- 80kg 9rds
CRUISERWEIGHT
WUMA PRO
EUROPEAN TITLE |
John Lee
32yrs (77kg) 5' 11
WEIGHED IN THEN WENT HOME WITHOUT CONTACTING
THE OFFICIALS |
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Grimsby Martial Arts
Academy
Coached by
Mick Blythin / Andy
Allenby |
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Light Fly Weight
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- 46kg |
Fly Weight |
- 48kg |
Super Fly Weight |
- 50kg |
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Bantam Weight
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- 52kg |
Super Bantam Weight |
- 54kg |
Feather Weight |
- 56kg |
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Super Feather Weight |
- 58kg |
Light Weight |
- 60kg |
Light Welter Weight |
- 63kg |
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Welter weight |
- 66kg |
Light Middle Weight |
- 69kg
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Middle Weight |
-72kg |
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Super Middle Weight |
-75kg |
Light Heavy Weight |
- 80kg |
Cruiser Weight |
- 85kg |
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Super Cruiser Weight
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- 90kg |
Heavy Weight |
- 95kg |
Super Heavy Weight
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+ 95kg |
To The
Grimsby Martial Arts Academy in
answer to slander you have put about me on your website
Well I suppose I had better answer your remarks on your website concerning
WUMA as I have had numerous calls and emails from people who have seen it,
shame you didn't have the BOTTLE !!!! to send it me to defend.
You know your
fighters all but wrecked my show, I already gave you my true account of what
and how it happened, you yourself have twisted this obviously cause you have
listened to your fighters. I personally feel your fighters should have
been heavily penalised for what they did! Instead you have chose to insult
me and my federation. I am now going to answer you on every line you have
wrote:-
As you
may or may not know, our friends at WUMA have decided to slate both Mick and
myself and the fighters at the Grimsby Martial Arts Academy, stating that we
are bottlers ?? and that we are banned from all further WUMA events and even
going as far as to state "We will inform all other associations so you will
not fight anywhere again !", er yer right.
I did not slate
any of you instructors for what happened, only the fighters as it was their
own choices to do what they did!
Yes I stated
that they are "Bottlers" that is my term for someone pulling out of a bout
by sneaking out of my event without informing ANYONE! perhaps you could
help me with a better name ?
I did inform some other associations that are friends and they have informed
me that your fighters will not be on their show. This was to
safeguard the promoters from what happened to me!
I think it is now time to put
our side of the story forward, John Lee was asked to fight a so called WUMA
champion on a pro event, pro in my books means both fighters get paid, not
just the WUMA entrant. Any way we had informed them that he would weigh in
heavy but the WUMA guy still took the fight.
John Lee was not asked to fight on a wuma show, in fact no person has ever
been phoned by wuma to compete, we set it all up and the competitors put
their own names down, phone anyone you like to check this as I make it my
policy never to chase people.
John Lee phoned
me and lied about his weight as he was suppose to weigh in heavy
but promised to lose some for us, he weighed in heavier than he said he
originally was. My wife gave him a
bollocking for that and I would have also if I had watched him weigh in, due
to his promises. John Lee was never told he would be paid , nor was Mark
Smith. Pro in Kickboxing does not always mean everyone gets paid and
never has in any association, even back when I was competing in it myself.
A so called
champion, how dare you have the ordacity to even say this, Mark Smith the
title holder has done his time and earned his title competing against all
who comes forward so I find that comment nasty and unfair and of course very
disrespectful, I hope you have to face Mark to explain yourself one day!.
After
driving to WUMA's HQ, a journey of some 2.5 hours, WUMA decided that they
wasnt going to let the fight go ahead as John weighed in heavy, er yer I
think you bottled it.
Get your facts
right, no one drove to wuma hq, the event was at a sports centre in
Worcester, no person told John he wouldn't be fighting and he dam well knew
he was on the bill later as the main bout, "Er Yer I think John bottled it
as he sneaked out of the event without mentioning it to anyone HELLO!
To add
to this after stating already to WUMA that James could not fight due to
illness, WUMA started slating all the fighters representing our club, this
in front of all the other people, instead of taking them to one side. In
their position I would have done exactly the same thing as they did and
leave. Why should they or our club take abuse after driving down from
Grimsby to the other side of Birmingham.
Yes James
stated he was ill "on the night" the term "bottler" comes to mind yet
again! The only person told off was John, no one else, he had that
coming due to his lies of his weight. Nothing was said of your other
fighters.
So if
you think we have bottled it then please accept this open invitation to any
of your students at the WUMA HQ who would like to fight in a real fight
night, were every fighter gets paid
Yes I think your fighters
bottled it, and no I do not accept your invitation of your students versus
mine in your "Real Fight Night" as we want nothing more to do with the
competitors that we consider bottled it and nearly wrecked our show.
Well done if you pay all fighters at your events, I respect that!
and where the clubs coaches
(>2) do not have to pay entry fee's of £25.00. Come to a fight night were we
have a full house and were the spectators only have to pay £15.00 and not
£25.00 and still get a full nights entertainment.
The club coaches never have to
pay, all who have been before know that and those that will come in the
future. The fee was £20 as your fighters tried to sneak followers into our
show on the night. A full nights entertainment can only happen if the
fighters don't run off without letting the organisers know don't you think!
Come to a fight night were we
treat the entrants with respect and thank them for taking part and driving
the distance to be there.
Our MC always thanks everyone for making the night succesful however you
wouldn't know about that as your members ran off before we got the chance to
thank them!
Ha,
bottlers we are not, true champions we are,
No person said you are all
bottlers, only the people that ran off from my show without informing the
officials or their opponents who were waiting to compete against them.
True champions you are, well I know nothing of that as I don't follow your
club, well done if you are!
coaches who are fit and active and take part in the lessons and the sparring
we are and those that try and further the martial arts not just for self
gain or ego.
Well
done for being fit and active and taking part in the classes and the
sparring. Well done for furthering the Martial Arts, I try to do that
also although you wouldn't agree, but then I have a following of 928
Instructors and I think you are 2 yeah!.
Yes I teach Martial Arts and earn a lot of money for self gain, It is called
a JOB! I do well and earn a lot with my JOB! Ego! Yes I am a man
and have an ego just like you, what I would like you to do for an ego test
is: Read my website and then read yours and see who is the one with the
ego!
Who are we, we are the Grimsby Martial Arts
Academy, who are we not, Don King pretenders !!
Well
I'm glad your not Don King pretenders, but i am glad i am as i run more
events than anyone in the world of Martial Arts, if you think not then
explain to me who runs more! I am not ashamed of what I do, in fact i am
a very proud man.
I state our case, Awesome Andy and Maniac Mick (lol.......)
Thankyou for stating your case Awesome &
Maniac (no ego uh! lol!) you both sound hard as hell! shame your
members didn't show their bottle when they needed to!
I Richard
Hopkins say this: You mentioned in an earlier email that you thought I
started same time as you with Clayton early eighties, Clayton will tell you
he knew me many years before that as a Lau-Gar fighter from the seventies,
my training started in 1962 as a boxer and I have the proof as the Evesham
Boxing club is still going.
In fact I was training and teaching before
you were both born "I think" I started teaching in 1976 so you might have
been a young kid.
I can prove this also as even my solicitor has been with me since 1978.
How dare you
insult me in this way when all I did was my job, I always tell it how it is
and had no choice but to make people aware of your fighters after what they
did to me I didnt want them to do it to others.
The next time I
see the writer of your answer "Either Awesome or Maniac "I think we should
step outside and see if you can back up your insults like a man with no
witnesses and no egos as there was no need for this, I will give you the
chance so don't think I won't!
P.S. What you have to realise is that on the night in question there were
clubs at my event from near yours and they saw it all happen, they saw me
calling for your fighters, one even talked to John and he told how nervous
he was for his bout later, this bull what you have put on your website has
made you look a laughing stock as they saw all this happen first hand on the
night, if you want names of these clubs you are welcome to have them.
14 emails I
have had from people who have read your comments against WUMA and I know I
will get more, you don't realise how stupid you are making yourself look.
They are all having a laugh on you Lol! Lol! lol! I might as well have
one also!
I now rest
my case
Richard Hopkins
WUMA Founder
