Reiss Larvin having to settle for a one round fight against IFA's Reece Richards. Reece Richards as we have seen before is a forward fighter that pays little or no attention to defence or pace and true to previous form it was same old same old from Mr Richards this time out. The sharper punching a punch flurries from USKA's Reiss taking over from his man as he tired to score the win. Reiss also left his namesake with an example of why it is not a good idea to steam forward with your hands down in the final seconds of the bout dropping him with a straight right hand on the button.
Megan Kelly matched against an IFA girl that looked a good 15 / 20kg heavier than her looked a little fazed on the way to the ring but when the bell rang that all changed. Megz continuing where she left off in Derby applied forward momentum and excellent combinations to keep the workrate up for the duration of the fight. Meg trains so hard in the gym that her fitness and resolve is never in question and she was able to not leave any gaps for her opponent to get any effective pressure of her own off. Mixing her punches and kicks together well Meg cruised to victory and continues to improve with every outing.

Alyesha Farrell was another USKA fighter who looked to be in a bit of a mismatch against a girl from UKCBA. The girl in question was extremely tall for the weight and as there was no scales at the venue to check it we had to go by what had been sent to Kash from the girls instructor. Alyesha was told to get close to the girl and not let her use her reach.
Alyesha did exactly that and moved forward for the duration of the fight pushing the big girl back and limiting the number of shot she could get out.
Although the taller girl was landing good body round kicks Alyesha was matching her and landing punch combinations on top to push herself in front.
We thought that coupled with the fact she never took a backward step for the whole fight against a clearly heavier opponent would be enough for her to get the decision.
Unfortunately the scoring referee felt for whatever reason that the other girl had done enough and had her hand raised as the winner. A decision that had more than a few people scratching their heads.

Ridwan Khan matched against IFA Jnr Black belt Liam Lindsey was in a good fight. Two fighters that looked equal in skill and throwing as much as each other but Ridwan clearly having the better connect rate and you would think scoring rate.
Although tired a clean axe kick to the head from Ridwan in the last 20 seconds seemed to have sealed the victory for the USKA fighter but again he fell victim to the referee's decision that went to Liam Lindsey.

Haris Khan up against the odds before he even stepped into the ring against his Welsh opponent due to his interesting training regime or lack of it should I say.
A lack of fitness, timing and ideas from Haris seen him on the end of a calculated beating from the young Welsh fighter who must have thought he had been matched against a raw novice. Haris will really need to up his game and get serious about his training if he is going to make improvements in his competition fighting. Very disappointing!

Adam Eyaz ran out of ideas against his Welsh opponent constantly falling victim to his lead leg side kick and losing his footing. The Welsh lad fought an intelligent fight keeping with the same game plan that was working for him to easily outpoint Adam over the duration.

Stacey Richards giving away 2 years in age to the aggressive Stevie 'pit bull' Pitt from Aero-Kick gym performed out of her skin to push Stevie back for the duration of the contest to make her taste some of her own medicine. Like most aggressive fighters they do not know what to do or how to fight when put on the back foot and this is exactly what happened when Stacey turned up the heat on her. Stacey never her gave her time to breath and Stevie even called for a time out needing a rest after getting hurt with a body kick near to the end of the round. A comfortable win for Stacey that incredibly went the other way in the eyes of the referee. This was easily the worst decision of the day and a performance from Stacey that earns her USKA fighter of the day even in so called 'defeat'

Zak Rehman debuting in USKA strip looked very good indeed showing excellent kicking variety and sound boxing skills to outthink his talented Wolverhampton IFA opponent down the stretch to win the decision. If this is what Zak has to offer he is definitely one fighter that USKA should be getting very excited about. Zak for me was one of the fighters of the day from the USKA team.

Haroon Khan fighting a very cautious and measured fight against his UKCBA opponent used good skills to keep his man at bay landing at range and then slickly moving out of trouble to cruise to his win. This made a change from the usual juniors fight that sees two fighters just stand in the centre of the ring trading off.

Zain Rafiq was involved in a close encounter of the IFA kind when he and his opponent went toe to toe in a battle that had nothing splitting the two. A final combination of a punch flurry followed by a head kick seemed to tip the scales in Zain's favour and gave the referee all he needed to justify the win to the young USKA fighter.

Jake Richards surprisingly matched against IFA fighter Zahid Jameel who he will meet in two weeks time to contest the British Title. This was to give both fighters an insight to what the other had to offer and the only worry was that it was going to be one sided and invalidate the Title opportunity's credibility. We needn't have worried though with both lads out to prove a point and impose their will on the other. A highly charged two round saw both fighters engage in a high intensity trade off with the first round relatively even but Jake stepping up his work and connect rate to take the second. In a very good fight Jake was awarded the winner this time but both fighters taking what they had seen and felt today to work on a strategy that will hopefully land then the British title in two weeks time.

Azad Khan easily involved in his worst performance to date loosing his 7 year unbeaten record to a fighter he had previously beaten twice before comfortably in Rafaqit Ali.
Azad's lack of gym hours and sparring caught up with him with his timing completely shot from the first ten seconds of the fight. Azad missing with single shots and being punished on the counter attack with multiples from Rafaqit was outworked and outgunned over the two rounds to embarrassingly drop a clear cut decision. Disappointing to say the least in a bout that seen Azad hit more times over two rounds that he probably has been in the 15 fights previous to this. Azad could not enforce his Wrath and now must go back to the drawing board and manage his gym time better if he is not going to suffer more defeats like this in the future.

Qasim Nisar next matched against IFA up and coming prospect Rasaqab 'Mr Speedy' Ali.
Both fighters with full contact experience and confident of being able to outdo the other.
Round one saw an aggressive forward fighting Rasaqab living up to his name going forward trying to close down Qasim's range. Qasim hitting well on the counter attack but the round ending relatively close.
Take over time! Round two saw Qasim follow his corners instructions of more head movement and angles to totally dominate and bewilder Rasaqab and officially steal his name of Mr speedy hitting him with an incredible barrage of accurate controlled kicks forcing cornerman Baggi Singh to throw in the towel.
Another day, another victory to the dreamy one.

Hailey Hanson in her first fight back in USKA colours looked very sharp in the first round of her fight against her IFA opponent using good variety of technique and movement to win the round emphatically. The second round saw Hailey tire slightly but still do more than enough to get the nod from the referee. A good first win back for Hailey and one that with a little more fitness she can only improve on.

Mark Sedgwick matched against a less experienced opponent from Wolverhampton IFA but one much heavier. Mark scaling at 39kg his opponent at 57kg.
What can only be described as a master class of control and technique Mark hit his man with well placed shot after shot and gave the crowd a demonstration of kicking ability at it's very very best. Mark proving that size doesn't

Jay Collett was another fighter giving away an enormous amount of weight to his IFA opponent but again had the experience advantage over his man. Jay looked and felt more than a little apprehensive as he stood in his corner with this being his first fight back in quite a while but hit a moved well clocking up points and landing nice kicks to stay out of trouble and take the win. First one back Jay will be looking at building up the confidence and stepping it up at his next competition.

So a mixed bag for the USKA team this time out with us finishing the day at 10 wins against 6 loses. It has to be said though that 3 of those 6 loses without a shadow of a doubt should have went the other way.
Congratulations to all who turned up to compete and a big thank you to Kash The Flash Gill and his team at IFA for on the whole what turned out to be an enjoyable day.

We apologise for the fact there is no pictures available from this event but give you a taster with Qasim 'The Dream' Nisar's 2nd round demolition job over
IFA's Rasaqab 'Mr Speedy' Ali.
Rumble young man rumble!

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