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Blog 14
28 Apr 2010 1:42PM
Straight after losing my fight at Bushido Challenge fight Iain Dean said
''at least it might make it easier to get you fights now'', I was too
pissed off at the time to even think about.
A day or two passed of me feeling annoyed at myself and hanging about in
a mood like a shitty teenager when I decided the only way to make
myself feel better would be to fight again as soon as possible. So I've
been trying to get fights since, in general I do struggle getting
regular fights, which was making me think about going back up to
featherweight to compete in MMA or going back to Muay Thai and making a
run at some titles. Thankfully somebody up there is looking out for me.
Out of the blue, I've ended up signing a contract to fight in Hong Kong
May 21st on a new show there called Fury-1. Shortish notice but I'm not
really one for turning opportunity's like this down. My opponent is a
Japanese fighter called Takeshi Numijiri a Deep and Sengoku veteran with
as many KO's on his record as submissions. So now I'm back in training
full time, to prepare for this, hardest part is going to be getting my
weight down taking into consideration the flight over and stuff.
Training wise I'm having to cram my usual 6 weeks into about 3 and a
half, my plan is to spar a shit load to bring my fitness up and get
sharp quick. Cool thing about going to Hong Kong is it means I've been to
Japan, Thailand and now China.
Not so out the blue I've also ended up fighting on Knuckle ups June show
in London. I was contacted a while back about availability for their show
and have been pretty keen to fight on it. Big thing is the shows on sky
sports which is cool, makes for some good exposure, getting matched wasn't so easy, initially i was matched with ATT fighter Chris Manuel but
due to issues I wont go into that fight never came off, then I was
asked to fight Knuckle ups featherweight champion Greg Knapp as he is
dropping to Bantamweight, I thought that fight was going to be a goer,
until Knuckle up got back to me and said I would be fighting Leigh
Remedious for their BW title. This will be my biggest fight to date,
Leigh has done just about everything in the sport, in some ways he is a
pioneer in UKMMA and someone I always looked up to when I was getting
into the sport. Just now I'm trying to put the fight with Leigh to the
back of my mind until after the fight with Takeshi, then I can
concentrate more on it.
Big few weeks coming up for me and for the rest of the Dinky Ninjas,
Graham Turner headlines Absolute Combat this weekend against tough
French FW Olivier Pastor, Paul's got a defense of his cage warriors world
title may 22nd and John Quinn and Alan Love have big fights coming up.
Pretty much knew this was going to be a big year for the dinky ninjas,
could end up being a massive one.
I'll keep this updated now in the run up to the Hong Kong fight and then
Knuckle up.
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