Excellent show Dan and team...including Jessie and the runners who helped make the show run like clockwork, really well done everyone. Some exciting early fights that kept the audience on the edge of their seats - some great skills and some big hearts shown. Well done all the fighters (and their respective coaches). There were too many good performances to mention individually but nobody could deny that Damien and Liam both did the UK proud against formidable opposition.

Despite Rungavee looking like he wanted to rip Damien's head off his shoulders and throwing some horrible looking kicks,strong knees and vicious punches, Damien did actually look like he was having fun. Rungavee changed part way through one of the early rounds and I think it must have been because Damien hurt him. His eyes glazed over and he looked like he wanted to eat Damien, but Damien kept his cool and smiled. Damien used his head, demonstrated some really good skills and showed he had a heart the size of the Doncaster Dome.

Sanchai is without a doubt the world's best, a phenomenal fighter with sublime skills and real power, but he really had to fight last night - no messing around because he really knew he couldn't. Liam took the fight to him, gave it everything and should be really proud. One cartwheel kick very early on and then Sanchai had to focus 110%. Sanchai was throwing some really clinical punches and looked like he had hurt Liam to the body and then Liam hit Sanchai with an elbow cutting him and things got really interesting again. Liam managed to kick Sanchai off his feet at least three times during the fight and refused to concede defeat until the bell. Sanchai was made to fight by Liam, but he did show some amazing skills to avoid Liam's bombs and score with punches, kicks, teeps and throws in the clinch - he was pushed into pulling out a great performance anything less would not have been good enough.

Both Liam and Damien lost on points but won a lot of hearts with their fighting spirit last night. Brilliant, well done.


...forgot to mention the referee, Darren was not really noticed too much last night because he did such a great job in refereeing some really big fights - well done mate. Also well done to the other judges too, lots of pressure at such a big show but everyone kept a clear head and demonstrated some very high consistency - all fights that went the distance were unanimous.


Somebody with a better memory will do a better job than me but these are the results I remember:

Joe Hanlon (Kiatphontip Leeds) Vs Luke Greenshields (Team Fearless)- Joe won TKO after both boxers had taken counts.

Sam Omogobe (Liams Gym) Vs Harry Heyes (Studio 2000 Derby)- Sam won TKO 8 seconds to go in the fight. Harry showed great heart against a very strong looking Sam who landed some bombs and strong knees throughout.

Rocaldo Gardner (Cobra Nottingham) Vs Peter Steed (King Cobra Durham)
Peter won points.

John Aong (Chang Kow Doncaster) Vs Brian Crichton (Kirkby Thai)
John won points.

Andy Thrasher (Erawan Manchester) Vs Diego Santuccio
(Italy)
Andy won KO body kickearly in round one.

Joe McGovan (SDF Sheffield) Vs Garatti (Italy)
Joe won TKO in round one.

Damien Trainor (K Star England) Vs Rungravee Sasiprapa (Sasiprapa Thailand)
Rungravee won points - brilliant fight.

UKMF British title
Leigh Edlin (Chao Praya Lincoln) Vs Kris Addis (Kao Loi Harrogate)
Kris won TKO - Kris dominated in the clinch and won the fight with knees, Leigh should real spirit and asked if he could present Kris with the belt.

Liam Harrison (Bad Company England Vs Sanchai Sor Kingstar (Sinbi Thailand)

Sanchai won points - another brilliant fight.