Back to the hilton Hotel for more Championship action

A team of four kickboxers from north & south of Ireland travelled with to motherwell, Scotland on Saturday.

Belfast Kickboxing ace Gary Hamilton was back in action at the weekend one week on from his disappointment which saw the late withdrawal of his Intercontinental title challenger Abdou Touil at the Ulster Hall. Hamilton made the trip to Strathclyde Scotland with coach Billy Murray where he did a hard demonstration with Scotland's Dave Hill in a catch-weight contest over four rounds. Both fighter put on a fine performance for the Scottish crowd, and with all demo contests it was declared a draw.

Topping the bill on Saturday night was Galway's European Champion Owen Flatley and the British champion Chris Carslaw of Paisley Scotland who battled it out over seven rounds to find the new WKN Welterweight Pro/am champion. From the start to Finnish, it was a bout very much worthy of a World Championship, with superb technique from the Scot and the grit and determination of Flatley producing some exceptional action. After the seven rounds were up, the judges came to a unanimous decision in favour of the Scot Chris Carslaw, whom had undoubtedly shown the better technique and penetrated the defenses of Flatley on a number of occasions, but take nothing away from Flatley he was very tough.

John Paul Somes of Kilkenny who beat Newtownards Paul Day a week a go for the All Ireland Championship, continued his fine form on Saturday, this time against the European Champion Zander Patterson of Motherwell. Patterson Started well winning the first round but John Paul came through strongly with some strong shots which appeared to unsettle Patterson. Unfortunately Patterson then began to spoil the bout by holding pushing and even kicking the Irish man when he was on the ground all of which are violations of the rules. However, all credit to John Paul Somes who was too strong and won the European title one week after his Irish title victory in Belfast.

Teammate Vinny Di Ruso who also picked up and Irish title in the Ulster Hall on October, 5th with a stoppage win over Newtownabbey's Jeff McKeen, was in KO form once again when he stormed to a second round stoppage against the former British champion Alan Thomas of Aberdeen.

Pro fighter Paul Cummins of Kilkenny beat British Champion Ian Mitchenson of Edinburgh on points after a grueling bout which went the distance of five rounds. Cummins piled the pressure on in the third round forcing a standing count, but was unable to finish the tough Scot, . Cummins took the decision on points after a hard contest all credit to both fighters. Mitchenson later went to Hospital for a precautionary check-up, thankfully all was well.

Douglas Morrison showed that he was still in contention for bigger things after defeating formar British champion over four rounds. White was forced to take a standing count in the first round when he took some heavy shots from the Aberdeen man. however, White done well to stay in the fight to the end after a rockey early start to the contest.

Chris Carslaw British champion winner points (Scotland) Vs Galway's European Champion Owen Flatley
Paul Cummins (Kilkenny) winner points Vs Ian Mitchenson (Edinburgh) British Champion
Vinny Di Rucso winner RSF2 (Kilkenny) Vs former British champion Alan Thomas (Aberdeen).
Douglas Morrison Winner Points (Scotland) Vs Hugh White (Scotland)
John Paul Somes of Kilkenny winner points Vs European Champion Zander Patterson of Motherwell.
Gary Hamilton (Belfast) Vs Scotland's Dave Hill Draw, catchweight contest

Thanks to the promoters Gary Langford of kicktech and Albert Ross of Aberdeen