ISKA UK sanctioned some major events including PAIN & GLORY (Excel London), POWER OF SCOTLAND 4 (The Lagoon. Paisley) World Championship Muaythai (Leeds Town Hall) and some major fights including the rubber stamp third match between Bad Company’s Richard Cadden and Thailand’s Rungnakorn Kharnpan for the ISKA World Light-welterweight Muaythai title.

The long awaited and much discussed match between Barinder Singh and Shawn Burton they put all their ISKA belts on the line, it was winner takes all for the British Commonwealth and European titles.

We saw the emergence of a new star in the shape of Northern Ireland’s Daniel Quigley who won the ISKA European Cruiserweight title in March with a first stoppage of Paul Hill then challenged World Champion Wayne Turner and stopped him in the fifth round to take the World crown.

There was growth in International activity fighters from Belgium, Belarus, France, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Thailand and the USA competing on ISKA UK sanctioned events.

UK fighters were invited to compete in Austria, France, Russia, United Arab Emirates and the USA. The ISKA has real world wide activity unlike some of the so-called World sanctioning bodies that have little or no activity outside the country in which they were founded.

The success of ISKA UK has pushed some of our competitors into action, one of them cutting their sanctions fees by half, which says more about their true value. Another making a complete policy u-turn in an effort to keep up.

We hope our efforts will raise the standards across the board in both Kickboxing and Muaythai.

 

News By: Paul Hennessy