Events

Fighting Fit's members and instructors regularly take part and organise combat events.

We also organise short training courses outside our regular classes.

The follwing links have information on our past and upcoming events. Please take a look:

> Fight Nights!

> Club Courses and Seminars

> John Shiels' Events

John Shiels' Events

John, who has previously represented Gt. Britain in both Karate and Kickboxing, has been successfully instructing martial arts for a number of years, whilst also competing at the highest levels in his chosen disciplines.

Next Event: TBC

Recent Events Archive:

10k Challenge: John Shiels selected for Karate Clash!

Only 32 of the top fighters are selected each year to compete in this televised event, which is held at the Mermaid Theatre, Pubbledock in London.

The format is simple, 32 men enter and only one emerges victorious winning £10,000.

John says, 'I feel incredibly honoured to have been chosen to participate in the event, but I do realise that I am up against the best fighters in the United Kingdom. I’m training hard with my team and looking to forward to fighting.'

The Karate Clash will be shown on Channel 4 and also the Fight Sport Channel.

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Pain and Glory

John Shiels featured at the biggest martial arts fight night the ‘Pain and Glory’ show, recently held at the NEC arena. John was invited as one of the top kickboxing fights on the bill in a five round contest against champion Carlos Andrade. John comfortably won the fight to make it a second win over Carlos within two months. The prestigious event played host to no less than four different fighting arts including k1, Muay Thai and MMA, with some of the best fighters from around the world taking part. John said “ It was great to be asked to take part in such an event I really enjoyed it. Its really exciting to fight and win in front of a packed crowd that size, I am defiantly looking forward to the next one”.  The show is to be screened on Eurosport.

John Shiels v Maksym Velychko

June 20th 2004 saw Banbury’s British kickboxing champion & Fighting Fit Martial Arts club owner John Shiels take on the Ukrainian super light heavyweight boxing champion Maksym Velychko at the Hammersmith Palladium in London. The six round fight was action packed from start to finish and was by far the best match of the eight fights on the bill. Johns ability to adapt to boxing stems back from his days when he won the Irish schoolboys boxing title and the time he spent studying under four times British empire champion the great Percy Lewis. From the start of the first round John took control of the fight and clearly out boxed the Ukrainian putting on an exciting display for the VIP audience. After six hard fought rounds John was awarded the decision to keep his undefeated boxing record intact.

John said ‘I am enjoying competing more than ever, it is hard to fit training time in with running the club but like I tell all the members it is a case of making time. I believe a true Martial Artist should compete in all styles of combat and the ability to adapt is of the up-most importance. I am looking forward to this Karate tournament as I will be competing against some of the best fighters in the world again.’