ISKA Ladies European title fight
In another electrifying night of kickboxing at the Clanree hotel, Letterkenny, Ireland. Paddy Toland (Pt’s Kickboxing Gym head coach) showed why his club is rated amongst the best in the world, as his latest protégé stepped up to the plate in style.
Natalie Mc Carron fought her way to European glory over a very game and durable, Sonya Woods from England. In the final fight of the evening the two ladies took to the ring to challenge for the vacant ISKA super flyweight Full Contact European title. This fight was surrounded by hype as it was the first time the ladies headlined the event, and it did not disappoint.
In a bruising encounter going the distance McCarron had out-kicked and out-punch the battle hardened English fighter. Natalie’s focus and determination was phenomenal on the night as it seemed nothing would stand in her way of claiming her first major honour, anything Woods threw at McCarron, she returned two fold and had Woods on the canvas five times throughout the duration of the bout. One of the knock downs was a sensational spinning back fist that dropped the English fighter to the canvas in the third round, but credit to Sonya Woods; she held strong and continued to fight until the final bell.
When the judges cards were collected it was declared that by unanimous decisions that Natalie mc Carron was the new Full Contact ISKAS uper Flyweight Champion of Europe, the crowd in the Clanree erupted into celebrations as Natalie was presented with the title belt and the champagne bottles exploded over the ring, as her family and husband Gerard came in to congratulate her.
Also on the undercard was Letterkenny’s own Tommy ‘the ghost’ Mc Cafferty in an international prestige fight with English man Alan Smith. This was Tommy’s return to the Clanree, and he done it in style. This was a fast paced fight. Mc Cafferty, his foot on the throttle from the first bell as he hit Smith with some tremendous combinations and body shots.
A clash of heads in the second round opened a small cut above Mc Cafferty’s eye. His corner men worked hard on this between the rounds, but this didn’t faze Mc Cafferty as he came out all guns blazing in the third round hitting Smith with some solid shots which seen the English man hit the canvas for two standing eight counts only to be saved by the bell. The onslaught continued throughout the 4th and 5th round with the English man doing well to stay on his feet with Mc Cafferty firing all cylinders and blasting hard kicks and punches to the Englishman’s body before landing a spectacular spinning kick which had the crowd on its feet again. McCafferty was declared an easy winner with all 3 judges’ scorecards.
The second of two international prestige fights seen Aidan ‘lights out’ Lafferty square off against the much taller Karl Johnstone from Jesters gym England. From the first bell this fight was one way traffic with Lafferty putting the English man under constant pressure and keeping him in the corner and on the ropes and continually slipping the English mans southpaw jab and banging in hard hooks to his body and head and following up with several high impact spinning back fists, Lafferty was on top form as he kept up this phenomenal pace for the entire five rounds, leaving the English man with no answers to Lafferty’s onslaught. When the cards were collected it was a unanimous decision to the PT’s fighter, this was the fight that got started off the pro bouts and really energized the crowd as the intensity started to build.
Also on the undercard were some excellent amateur fights as the stars of future took to the ring to learn and perfect their craft, there was a couple of outstanding performances put in on the night by Colm ‘Stumpy’ mc Menamin, Derek ‘Bam Bam’ Walker, the younger generation also put on a great show of kickboxing as Gareth mc cafferty and glen mc farlane battled it out in a fight that was declared a draw.
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7 June 2010
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