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Blog 15
03 May 2010 11:49PM
Been another big week for the Dinky Ninjas, we had four semi pro fighters on a show in Port Glasgow last weekend, came away with 3 wins and a loss. Good performances from Martin Delaney, Ally McRae and Steven McCreadie, 3 guys to look out for in the future.
Scotland's biggest MMA show Absolute Combat returned to Meadowbank arena at the weekend and was packed with GOOD fights, the match making was really good and it provided for some real tear ups. Again there was a bunch of the Ninjas fighting, all winning but having to work for the W's. Good performances from Andy Glenn and Kieran Malone under semi pro rules, this was Keiran's last semi pro fight before making his pro debut at cage Kombat in a months time. Fight of the night was Alan McCauley v Bobby McVitie, it was nuts back and forward good exchanges on the feet and on the ground, both guys where hurt at points but both kept on fighting, was cool to watch. Dan Hope moved to 7-1 against a good fighter in Chris Carmichael also. Main event was Scotland's most experienced pro fighter (despite being only 22) Graham Turner taking on french fighter Olivier pastor. Pastor trains with the Fernandez brothers and is a good striker and real good grappler. Turner himself has an under rated ground game and is a good wrestler but went into the fight planning to keep Olivier up and play to his strengths. Good fight between the two of them, Graham stayed really composed and picked Olivier off on the feet while stopping his attempts to wrestle. Graham won on points 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28. Pro record is now 16-5-1. All in all Absolute Combat was a big success, raised the bar of MMA in Scotland again. Absolute Combat was a tough night for me, as well as my team mates fighting, Joanne was fighting against an experienced South African fighter on power of Scotland. I couldn't make it over to corner her due to my commitments to Absolute Combat but my mind was never really off her fight, I knew she would be fine due to the work she put in and training but I had some natural apprehension. Turns out I didn't have much to worry about as she dominated the girl dropping her twice for 8 counts and moving her unbeaten record to 15-0. Next fight for her is on the Queens Birthday show in Thailand for the Wmpf world title, if Thailand doesn't go into a state of civil war by then. Joanne and the rest of the ninjas winning made my weekend.
Gyms been real busy the now as this month is big for our team, I'm off to Hong Kong in a little over 2 weeks, Paul is defending his CWFC world title against American Frank Sharipov and John Quinn is fighting for Dan Hardy's old CWFC welterweight title at cagewarriors, big weekend for our team. The week after we are at the North Easts biggest MMA show Strike and Submit, Alan 'No' Love fights for the first of what I'm sure will be many titles and have guys on Cage Kombat in Edinburgh.
With all these high level fights coming up the training in the gym has been awesome, everyone is getting pushed, everyone is getting better, the whole 'iron sharpens iron' thing is really evident just now as it seems every fighter in the team is developing quick.
Training wise I'm still trying to fit in as much pressure work as possible to get sharp and fit, a lot of sparring and conditioned drills.I've not had the chance to get a proper 6 week fight camp in so I'm squeezing as much in the 3 weeks as I can because the fight is on short notice, but I'm cool with it, UK fighters don't really get too many opportunity's to travel and fight abroad too much especially not to Asia so you have to take the opportunity's when you get them.
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