Post Tenebras Cup,
Geneva 23rd & 24th March

Post Tenebras Cup, Geneva 23rd & 24th March


Prokick's trio of young stars Gary Hamilton, Glen Kilpatrick and Alan Kilpatrick arrived home below is a brief report of their bouts at the biggest Martial Arts tournaments in Europe.

New Born Star! Belfast's WKN British Champion Glen Kilpatrick was mobbed with Swiss fight fans young and old wanting autographs when he won in emphatic style in Geneva on Saturday night.

After the first hard round of the two fighters exchanging blows, Kilpatrick proved he was obviously the stronger and more physical of the fighters. He floored the Frenchman Castro with a sweet left hook and there was no coming back! Castro hit the ground hard and the Referee didn't even start a count. The doctors were immediately into the ring and Castro was brought to Hospital. Thankfully he is ok, but spent the night for precautionary measures.

A new star is born! After the fight it took Glen nearly twenty minutes to get back to his changing room whilst he signed hundreds of Autographs. After the fight Glen said "The atmosphere was incredible, I have never experienced such over whelming support and never thought I would ever find myself signing autographs".
Footage of the fight, which was televised on Eurosport, SkySport and many other TV stations around the world as well as local TV in Ireland.

Glen's younger brother Alan started well in the first round of his fight when he took on the Moroccan Yacana. However he lost his tempo slightly in the second and took some good hard blows. Alan came back very strong in the third and fourth, with lightning quick kick and punch combinations. The fight was closely fought to the end and the judges only scored the fight with half a point between the fighters, in favour of Yacana.

Gary Hamilton started in his usual fashion against Flavio Turelli. He put the highly experienced Swiss under a lot of pressure and looked certain to end the fight with-in the distance, but in the game never take your opponent lightly….as Hamilton found out the hard way.
At the end of the second round the Flavio caught Hamilton of guard with a clean roundhouse kick, which sent the Belfast man crashing to the canvas. As he fell he appeared to twist his Knee badly and frustratingly he was unable to continue. Hamilton lost by KO. Hamilton said " I can't believe it ended in this way. It is hard to stomach loosing in this fashion, however, these things happen, all I can do now is pray that my knee will heal quickly and get back into ring soon.

Scotland's Willy Robbie's hopes of becoming the WKN World Champion were dashed on Saturday night when he lost his all out battle with Frenchman and WKN World Champion Olivier Cerdan…. More to follow shortly from the POST TENEBRAS CUP 2001

A reunion on neutral territory - What were all the these former ISKA Directors doing together?

Left - Right....Stephane Cabrera, Billy Murray, Ivo
Dalbo, Will Raven, Olivier Muller and Eric Carlton.

Top Sports photographer Jean Calamel was in Geneva to catch the action.