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Wow, what a great show!! Quality venue and brilliantly organised - well done to everyone involved!
Imran and Christian both kept me and the Wicker Camp gang cheering with some excellent fighting. Credit to Imran's opponent for taking the fight at such short notice. Also, Jon Clark I'm so sorry I didn't actually realise that Christian's opponent was you till you stepped into the ring and it suddenly dawned on me - duh!! Anyway I did risk getting my ass whipped by giving a little cheer for you when you were announced, but seeing as Chris is from my gym I couldn't make it an exceptionally loud cheer. I did try though, I figured I couldn't let a fellow Axer and a fellow med student down totally! Well done on a quality fight though Jon, you took it to Christian and make him work for it, if it had been anyone other than Christian I'd have been cheering for you at the top of my voice!
Liam, congratulations, you fought like a champ - and a gentlemanly champ too, I thought you were very respectful towards your opponent after the fight and very gracious. Also your granddad's cool, me and my bloke were sat in front of all your family and he kept us amused all night!
Jordan showed us how it should be done, he's such a fantastic fighter, I thought Ryan was a great opponent and a very tough cookie for taking it as long as he did, and I thought it was a good decision by his corner to retire when they did. Hopefully Jordan will just keep getting better and better, I'm sure they both learnt a lot from the fight and it was a pleasure to watch.
Credit to the organisers for bringing over such brilliant fighters from Russia, I'm always concerned that they're not going to match up to our boys and it was good to see some top quality fighting going on. Absolutely gutted that they kept winning though, I don't like them being that good!!!! I was voiceless for most of the drive back to Sheffield after screaming for Neil so loud, I'm sure he'll take a lot from the experience and come back better than ever though.
I never found any Axers though!! I was going to try to find you Jon, but figured it mightn't go down to well with the pissed up Wicker Camp. I didn't recognize anyone else, I'm sure next time we sould have an ax signal - all wear a red carnation or something!!!!
Anyway, all in all it was a brill night, well worth the money and if you missed it then you missed out!