Malta Boxing Council News Issue 3 - August, 2013 | Page 5

Clean Sweep for Team Noel

@ “Gladiators Night” 5 ALIQUAM

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Malta Boxing News

‘Team Noel’ (Ying Yang) consisting of Daniel "The Jet" Zahra, Brandon Spiteri, Darren Borg, Melvin Fenech and Darren Doneo kept the thousand strong fight fans at the Greek Theatre in Ta' Qali entertained with some high quality bouts. A total of eighteen Kickboxers form various local clubs participated in this event.

In the main event of the evening Daniel Zahra defeated Portuguese, Bruno Torres in a 5x3 WKN World Title fight under K1 rules. Both fighters were relentless in their determination to win, offering a spectacle of different Kickboxing techniques. In the first two rounds both fighters seemed balanced, with attacks and counter attacks and a number of well executed moves. In the third round Zahra seemed to edge ahead and began to take control of the fight, Zahra on several occasions executing leg and knee combinations landed blows to Torres’s head. At the end the judges had little difficulty in delivering a unanimous decision in favour of Zahra and crowning him as the new WKN world champion for his division.

Brandon Spiteri left everyone in awe by winning his match against Christian Schembri kickboxing in a record four seconds of the first round. Spiteri opened up with a front attack followed with a house kick to the head which had his opponent down, who although managed to raise from the canvas the referee decided that enough was enough and counted Spiteri’s opponent out.

Darren Borg returned to kickboxing after doing a stint in classical boxing was in total control throughout his bout and won every round on points. Melvin Fenech and Darren Doneo completed the perfect fight night for Ying Yang’s, Team Noel by taking wins on points for their respective bouts.

This event was promoted by Noel Mercieca and Isaac Chetcuti, of Gladiators Promotions. Adrian Axisa, President of WKN Malta / MKBF &, WKN President, Stephan Cabrera were event supervisors. Also present for this fight night was Thai Boxing legend Osman Yigin and a representative of the Malta Sports Council.

Gladiators Promotions would like to announce their next big Show on the 1st of November 2013 which will consist of an 8 MEN K-1 Tournament 75-80Kg Winner Takes ALL 2000 Euros in Prize money.

For more information visit Gladiators Promotions on Facebook or contacted Master Noel Mercieca on 00356 - 79208283 or [email protected]

Malta's Daniel "The Jet" Zahra - WKN World Champion