Here is want we have been up to in breif:
Sunday 19th Sptember
We all got back home in Belfast
5.20am we arrive at the airport to head home. Gary F was on a different flight and he missed his connecting flight for London to Belfast and was lucky enough to be placed on a later flight. Good news James and I got back home on time -Yeha
Saturday 19th - Fight Day
1.am - the event is over and we head back to the hotel as we need to get-up at 4.30am.
7.30 pm - all the talking is over and now its a waiting game. James was on first, bout No.7 and Gary was to be on last.
5.30pm - time to go the the venue, keep your eyes on the web site here and we'll have up-date as the fights go on. Bye for now.
8.30am Gary and James went on a 4 hour tour of the north side of the Islan, Murray had to stay behind to work. The tour went well.. the work was okay too.
7am - Yes it is fight day all the weeks of preparation are over and its only a few hours left before the guys get ready for action. Before that happens though we all met for b/fast ahead of our schduled tour, tour starts at 8am. This may help to settle the mind and nerves before fighters come face-face for combat.
Friday 18th September -8.30 pm
Weigh-ins and meet-n-greet is over our boys all made the weight okay. Belfast's Gary Fullerton hit the scales at 71.1kg at a match made at 72kg well done GF. And Portadown's big James Gillen Big James tipped the scales at a mere 119kg - 6 kg down from his last fight at the Waterfront Hall. Both boys are looking forward to the event.
So its dinner a walk and early to bed, we have a 7am start we are going on a tour of the North side of the Island and off to Gozo, look it up...breath taking.
Friday 18th September 5.30 local time off to the weigh-ins
3-5pm Midday sight seeing around the city - then met up with some of the WKN's top brass:
1-3 pm WKN – the World Kickboxing Network’s top people ascend in Malta for Saturday’s BIG event – billed as Malta Vs the World. Kick and Thai-boxers from 13 different nations compete in various styles of fighting from Full-Contact, Thai-Boxing, K1 Rules and conventional boxing.
Friday 18th September- 6am
Billy's boot camp hits Malta - well Billy ran for about 20 mins as the Boot camp goes International. Fullerton and Gillen were up 7-ish am but not to take part - to see what was on offer for B/Fast. Murray opted to work...well sleep after the run I mean walk around the city.
Big James Gilen
Friday 18th September 2.30am
16 hours later Big James G and Gary F have arrived in Malta ahead of Malta Vs the world. An event were Malta Kick and Thai-boxers take on 14 different nations in a WKN sanctioned event.
Two of N,Ireland's kick fighters will represent the ProKick gym at the event on Saturday night the 18th September the pair had a chance to walk through the town and of course they wanted to hit the night clubs.
But lucky for the Maltese Murray was on hand to send the guys back to the hotel for a good nights sleep. Weigh-ins at 6pm Local time.
Thursday 17th September
Well we are on our way to Malta as you can see Gary Fullerton is not a happy-chappy. BM & JG look really happy they are in Heathrow but poor GF had to trudge to Gatwick on his own.
We arrive in to Malta 45mins apart and GF left Belfast this morning a 6am whilst Bill & Ben started out at 6pm tonight.
Now who booked these flights
yeha
Big James Gilen
More info about the Malta event here
Comments
Good Luck James hope all goes well for you
By PaulinePauline on 17 Sep 2009
The Very Best of Luck to 2 of Prokicks finest fighters..
and decent big blokes they are as well…
Good Luck
M.
By Mark1 on 16 Sep 2009
go on lads show malta what we are made of good luck
By dudedude on 16 Sep 2009