Despite limited resources in a sport still viewed by many sports administrators as niche.
“We’ve always known the value of a great, easily used website,” said ProKick boss Billy Murray, the former world kickboxing champion. “We started the first site in 1997 when many organisations thought online was a fad. The site has been through a few incarnations since then until now. It’s a vital part of what we do. It spreads news of events of club membership details. It started essentially, as a bulletin board and grew. There is now a great spot for audio and video and we have just introduced prokick email address, RSS feeds with syndicated content powered by FeedBurner, and soon we will allow fight fans to construct their own Facebook-style profiles.

” Murray said the site had meant he could rhapsodise to the world about the great things happening in kickboxing in Northern Ireland – and helped establish Belfast as one of the most important kickboxing cities in Europe. And he hasn’t finished yet. “We’re bigger than some newspapers in Northern Ireland. We’re bigger than some main political parties sites. We’re in the top 300,000 sites in the world. That’s remarkable when you start to consider the mind-bogglingly vast number of sites in the world. We’re aiming to be one of the top 100,000. That day is coming!”

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