Lisa Houghton-Smith v Illonka Elmont, 20 Oct 2002

To see a better version of the poster follow this link http://www.badcompany.co.uk/Poster20Oct.htm

Full Line up (so far) as follows:

1) Lisa Houghton-Smith (Bad Company) v Illonka Elmont (Holland)
WAKO pro World Title Defence

2) Daniel Hudson (Wicker Camp Sheffield) v Abdul Toure (France)
WAKO pro European Title

3) Paul Monaghan (Nong Kee Pahayuth) v Damian Hood (Tony Myers)
WAKO Pro Commonwealth Title

4) Richard Cadden (Bad Company) v Alan Reid (Carlisle Dragons)

5) Nicola Fearnley (Bad Company) v Becky Berry (Bury)
WAKO Pro Northern Area Title

6) Amy Tomkinson (Beastmasters) v Chanel Borgen (Kao Loi, Harrogate)

7) David Riley (Steppin' Razor, Leeds) v Julian Presley (Dave Croft's gym Bradford)

8) Dale Wood (Bad Company) v Dave Taylor (Knuckles)

9) James France (Bad Company) v Dave McVicar (Beastmasters)

Plus Jordan Watson (Bad Company) and Imran Khan (Wicker Camp, Sheffield), Simon Crockford (Gloden Team Leeds)

good luck lisa!!!

Read on your site this event on 20 October will be in aid of Whizz-kidz.
www.whizz-kidz.org.uk .
Very well done & compliments to this!!!! I think this is a great initiative!!!

Looking very much forward visiting Leeds and having a fantastic evening.
Good luck to both Lisa & Ilonka (and all other fighters of course!!!)on their training & preparations for the fight.

For me already the big winner is Mr. Smith in helping these kids of Whizz-kidz.
Again, very well done and hope more promotors will follow your example.

As for the fight itself, no surprise which corner of these two great champions I choose :)LOL

Regards,
Eric

Lisa is donating her purse to Whizz-Kidz and the profits for the show will be donated too (assuming there is a profit to donate!!).

3 weeks later (November 3) Lisa and I will be running New York Marathon. Again we will do this in aid of Whizz-Kidz.

Its a great charity - they provide mobility equipment and help for disabled kids. Check out their website www.whizz-kidz.org.uk for more info.

that's very noble of her :)

In preparation of this fight Ilonka did over a month's trainingstage in Thailand.Currently training is getting more intens by the day at FFC. Ilonka is very determent, after becoming the WPKL-Worldchampion, now also to become the WAKO-Pro World Champion. Problem is that Lisa plans to keep her title in Leeds for a while longer & from what I hear she is quite determent to equal the score after last event in Rotterdam.
Damn, I'm looking forward to this fight!!!

But first Allistair Overeem, Gilbert Yvel, Tyrone Spong & Marloes Coenen will have to fight at 2Hot2Handle in Rotterdam on Oct. 13th. And if everything goes right, our 12 year old Sahin will do a fight coming Sunday.
Busy upcoming weeks in Amsterdam.

Tonight however, due to a flu which kept Lucien from doing the evening trainingsessions, they had a "new" teacher taking care of the group. :)

And she is hard on them!!!

Marloes Coenen & Tyrone Spong.

Sahin kicking at his teacher.

Fortunatly some fun aswell :)

Hoped to get some photos & reactions out of GB aswell.
Awfully quiete there for the fight. Is that be a silence before a storm :)

Think I try this photo. Doesn't she look good with belts on? :)

RICHARD as usual PLEASE send me about 10 tickets and 10 posters as ya know even when i dont have a fighter on ! iusually can sell tickets as the event and Hall is topz !
Cheers !
i / we had 2 fighters on last time 1 NONE this time ! BUT god in that i get to watch some instead of being in the changing rooms all night and missing the fights ! hahaha !
AND i will get to meet ERIC see ya thee !
cheers sandy man holt

OK Eric - just 1. I like this one. Toots took it.

I recently met Ilonka in Thailand for the first time. What a pleasant person to meet. Also very Knows so much about the sport. I have been away from Ilonka England for 7 years now and I talk for a while with her and her trainer in thailand. It was a pleasure.

Good luck to Ilonka and Lisa. I hope it is a memorable fight.

Hahaha. Great photo & very well shot by Toots!!!

Btw. Was talking to a friend of mine about female MT/KB last night and he told me about a documantry on BBC he had seen.
He was very impressed & liked the doc. very much. Was that Lisa??? I ask because I saw some post on your website a while ago Lisa was BBC's sports woman of the year.

Grt,
Eric

Sandys fighter Jussy Lowe was in a documentary called Female Gladiators, but Lisa has been in a few things too. Channel 4 did a 10 minute programme about her European Title fight and BBC Look North have featured her a few times, so it might be one of those that he has seen.

Thanks Mr. Smith.
I thought the Doc. was about Lisa because of the BBC womensportswoman of the year award. Very impressive to get that award. Good job & very good for the sport!!!
Also compliments to Sandy & Jussy for getting this done. Hope to see it soon myself.I know it's damn hard to get any TV attention in Holland, and if BBC is willing to broadcast it is a big deal!!!

Anyway good thing TV is picking up on the female fighters, they need that.
BTW. have you seen the MTV add at Dan C's? Hope that is for real.

Hope all goes well on preparation of the Town Hall event. Here we are in full prep. already to visit your event. Looking much forward to see these 2 great fighters at work again.

I just liked to post this picture because it was taken by the Amsterdam -Amstelland police task force after a burglery downstairs of FFC.
(Damn good photographers these guys have).
Think Toots might watch the competition, I even consider bringing one of these guys. :) Hope Toots also will take pictures at the Townhall event, allthough she has a different favorite then I have, i trust her in taking objective photo's:). LOL

Good luck & take care,
Eric

i'm appaled you'd even consider my blatant bias towards lisa making an impact on my photojournalistic integrity


of course i'll be there,
your bringing guys, oh goody :-)
i like guys ;-P

Sorry Toots, didn't mean to hurt your feelings or question your photojournalistic integrity. :)
It's just that we have 2 different favorits that fight.:)

Anyway, looking forward to see you in Leeds.
Take care,
Eric

Richard is the line up still the same? please !
if its altered? please can you update us ? thanks
and did you see / get the message re; posters n tickets ? Please bring to master Skens show on sunday if you like ? cheers ! Also if you can support me / us on my ONLY `1` SHOW this year which is DEC:`1`ST: at the Big nightclub ATLANTIS Bolton ! Any fighters you / anyone has ? please e-mail me thankyou !
cheers sandyman !

Hi Sandy - yes the tickets and posters are in the post. The card is more or less the same - as follows:

James France (Bad Company) v Dave McVicar (Beastmasters)

David Riley (Steppin' Razor,Leeds) v Julian Presley (Dave Croft Bradford)
WAKO Pro Norhern Area Title

Jordan Watson (Bad Company) v Robert Sharpley (Leigh Thai Boxing Gym)

Chanel Borgen (Kao Loi, Harrogate) v Amy Tomkinson (Beastmasters)

Nicola Fearnley (Bad Company) v Becky Berry (Bury)
WAKO Pro Northern Area Title

Nick Sheppard (Tigers Gym Leeds) v Mick Ward (Elite, Liverpool)

Richard Cadden (Bad Company) v Alan Reid (Carlisle Dragons)

Simon Crockford (Golden Team, Leeds) v Adam Mills (Trojan, Cheltenham)

Imran Khan (Wicker camp Sheffield) v TBA

Lisa Houghton-Smith (Bad Company) v Ilonka Elmont (Holland)
Champion WAKO Pro World Title Defence Challenger

Paul Monaghan (Nong Kee Pahayuth) v Damian Hood (Tony Myers)
WAKO Pro Commonwealth Title

Daniel Hudson (Wicker Camp Sheffield) v Abdul Toure (France)
ISKA European Title

As you know this show is for Charity - Whizz-Kidz. Check out their site www.whizz-kidz.org

Richard Caddon fights

So does Paul Monaghan

AX-shirts arrived on friday,
Thanks Brian!!!
Looks very good!!!!!!!