Sursee, Switzwerland;  Xhavit “Gentlemen” BAJRAMI , the former World Champion is back. In front of 800 people in the hall and in locale TV he fought for the vacant Muay Thai heavy weight World title  + 96,50 Kg  vs. the US American fighter Mike SHEPPARD. After few nice hard lowkicks referee Folladori / AUT has to give a standing eight count to Sheppard. Just few seconds later Bajrami made a fast, sweet high kick from nowhere to the head and the US boy was knocked-out.

With this performance Bajrami is realy back in the top class elite and now we looking forward, when he get a chance to fight in K-1 in Japan.

Second highlite was the Ladies European title  Estrella LANZI / ITA  vs.  Charlet SCHERRRER / SUI . After five  rounds of a good fight the Italian girl Lanzi toke the European Champion belt.

From now on ISKA is using the same pro rules World wide,  from San Francisco to Wladiwostok.  Thanks to World matchmaker and promoter Mr. PauL HENNESSY  from UK we got a rules update, after confirmation from European president Mr. Fritz EXENBERGER and of course the ISKA head office and World president Mr. Cory SCHAFER.

All other rule books for professional fights are null and void

Bregenz, Austria;  Almost 200 fighter from 12 countries came to Bregenz in Western Austria to see an excellent tournament, promoted by the dynamic duo Daniela KLOPFER and Harald FOLLADORI. Because this event was also open for other federations WKA World president Mr. Klaus NONNEMACHER was present as special guest. And after very kind handshake under professionals with ISKA Europe president Fritz EXENBERGER , the presidents had nice conversation.Many photos here in the gallery and much more in Shogun Magazine.

It was really a pitty that either German ISKA referees nor officials joint the event. No everybody os looking for the last tournament bevore Summer in Ukraine, for Ringsports only on July 4th. For more informations send mail to ISKA UKRAINE, Mr.Viktor LAZURKO.

On 16th May the Jersey Thai Boxing Club hosted the ISKA Super-welterweight title at the Fort Regent venue in jersey. Competing for the title was raising star Thomas McCormack against Jerseys own Michael Blood. This was the first ISKA Championship bout contested in the Channel Islands

the event caused massive media attention on the island and had a great undercard of jersey fighters vs. fighters from mainland England. The 900 strong crowd gave a great atmosphere to stage one of the biggest events the island has ever held.

the first round bell rang and both fighters started to feel each other out, however, it was McCormack who was the quicker and his experience showed, catching blood and tripping him up on several occasions. McCormack gained confidence as his unorthodox style was preventing blood from finding his rhythm.

Blood came out in the third with intentions to turn the fight around which is exactly what he did. He set the pace walking forward, putting pressure on McCormack all the way, however the Sheffield fighter proved evasive.

Blood did manage to connect with some solid blows in the fourth but McCormack footwork keep him out of trouble and allowed him room to counter attack. McCormack won a unanimous decision

Michael Blood’s trainer and event promoter Rob Mitchell was pleased with the overall performance of Blood and the rest of the Jersey fighters saying “I think we done extremely well matching the standard of fighters from much larger clubs from England and put Jersey on the map and Michael’s performance especially”.

The club received nothing but praise from Mick Mullany (McCormack’s coach) who was impressed by the hospitality and calibre of fighter the Jersey club offered.

Rob Mitchell would like to thank everyone from Sheffield Thaiboxing, fearless Gym and Black Widows Gym for travelling to Jersey and helping to make the event possible.

The Clanree Hotel, Letterkenny has certainly established itself as the home of world class Kickboxing events with the P.T’s Kickboxing show once again raising the bar for kickboxing in Ireland. The main event featured ISKA World Light-middleweight Champion Tommy McCafferty in his second attempt to win the ISKA Middleweight belt.

McCafferty faced French Champion Dino Perrotto to contest the vacant title. McCafferty took the fight to Perrotto from the first bell dominating the opening rounds the Frenchman struggled to keep up. Perrotto opened a nasty cut under McCafferty’s left eye after which he seemed to regain his confidence and ride out the storm, finding his own rhythm. The French Champion had a big sixth round attacking with powerful punches and kicks earning McCaffery’s respect but Perrotto dropped the next two rounds to the relentless work rate of the Irishman. Perrotto got a second wind in the ninth and took the fight to McCafferty for the first time he managed to get McCafferty to take a backwards step landing heavy accurate blows. McCafferty really does have the heart of a Champion and the ability to dig deep inside himself to produce incredible durability and strength, that’s exactly what he did in the remaining rounds cheered on by the capacity crowd, Perroto was still dangerous and ready to trade leather but McCafferty would not be denied and at the end of the twelfth and final round was judged the winner by unanimous decision. The new two times World champion was happy with his work but now plans to take a break after three 12 round World title fights back to back inside the last eight months.

ISKA World Cruiserweight Champion Daniel ‘Pinta’ Quigley faced ISKA British Champion David Ball in a non-title contest. The match ended prematurely when Quigley closed Ball’s right eye with a solid right hand, Ball retired on his stool after the second round with impaired vision. Aidan Lafferty lifted the ISKA Irish Light-middleweight title belt due to a third round stoppage of Shane Montgomery.

Vienna, Austria;  ISKA EUROPE deputy chief referee Mr. Josef TEMML / AUT got since June 6th official EBU pro Boxing license. This shows once more again, that our seminars and training for referees are excellent and we are on the right way.

Congratulations from ISKA EUROPE head office, well done Yussuf

Luzern, Switzerland. Xhavit ” the Gentleman ” BAJRAMI fight for the ISKA Heavy weight title vs. the former World Champion Mike SHEPPARD / USA.  Both fighters had already that title, the fight will show who is the Nr. 1 .   Bajrami is in Top form  but Sheppard knocked out the Rusian Champion last Year !!!

The next highlight is the European title fight Carmen HESS / SUI  vs.  Estrella LENZI / ITA.  Both ladies have an excellent fight record and ranked under top ten.

Plus Blerim RASHITI, Stephan MBIDA, Sabrina ELMIGER, Nico FISCHER and …

The show is more than just a high class event in Switzerland, don´t miss it.

Kolkata, India. on June 21st  promote ISKA INDIA president Dr. Premit SEN the biggest Kickboxing event in India. Many  Asian countries send their teams to participate in that historical event.  Our respected ISKA ASIAN president Dr Ahmed MOINSHIRAZI  worked hard in co-operation with Dr. Sen to  organise such international event. Like  last event in Hurgada they will have also Asian title fights for the very first time.

Machelen, Belgium. Georges KARVELIS was promoter of the event in front of just 500 people in the hall. Edvik ABDULAHI / BEL  beat the french fighter Armand N´Gakouton  by TKO in the 7th round.

With Jimmy BARLETTA was the former coach of J. C. Van Damme referee on this event.

Hurgada in Egypt was the amazing place for the biggest ISKA event in Africa ever.  Dr. Mohamed SOBIH from ISKA EGYPT was promoter of an international event , running on three days. For the very first time we had three title fights for the ISKA AFRICAN continental title. See the updated African ranking and gallery on www.iska-africa.com