What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A Middleton schoolboy is one of three local Thai boxers who’ve returned as medal winners from an international Muay Thai championship in Bangkok. Fabian Monit, 16, and veteran fighter Pyotr Janusz, 47, won gold in their respective categories with Kamil Fornalski, 25, taking silver. All three train at Beeston’s Master
Hunslet’s Peyton Silverblade is delighted to have won both his debut Thai boxing fight on the Leeds ‘Hitman’ show last November at eight years of age and now aged nine his second contest on Hitman’s recent Manchester show themed as ‘Legends’. According to parents James Silverblade and Helen Duckworth, “Peyton
South Leeds teenage Thai boxers returned from competition in Bishop Auckland confident that their decisive wins on Yodphet Fight Night Three stand them in good stead for greater success in 2026. Jack Marshall, 16, and Fabian Monit, 15, have been training for eighteen months at Beeston’s MSA Academy under Rafal
Two local teenage Thai boxers hope that recent intensive training will allow them to add further wins to their fight record when they compete on Yodphet Fight Night Three in Bishop Auckland on 29 November. Jack Marshall, 16, and Fabian Monit, 15, have been training for eighteen months at Beeston’s
Fighters from the MSA gym in Beeston showed their skills at the two-day Magic of Thailand Festival in Manchester. The event was one of a number held in various locations this summer promoting the culture, food and sport in the south-east Asian nation of over seventy million people. “We put
Belle Isle’s Matty Sylvester did a little Thai boxing or Muay Thai early in 2023 and then flew out to Thailand that summer. He’s now built an impressive record of fight wins culminating in a silver medal at 81kg in the WMF World Championship tournament in Bangkok. “I’d always admired
A Thai boxer from Beeston’s Master Sken Academy (MSA) has just returned from two weeks of intense training and competition in Thailand. Gracjan Krupski emerged as an elite member of the England team winning a gold medal in the 66kg pro-am category which allows older amateur fighters to compete under
Brothers Thomas and Aidan Winstanley train together at Hunslet’s Golden Team gym and are looking forward to representing their club on Golden Team’s March home show fittingly themed as ‘Brothers in Arms’. Thomas, 17, admits that until he started boxing training eighteen months ago “I was going off the tracks
Pupils at St Mary’s CE Primary Academy in Hunslet had a great time when Padraic McDonagh, previously two times British Thai Boxing Champion and world Bronze medallist, came into school to speak, launching a new programme at the school called Inspiring Young Lives. Padraic, who owns local boxing club Golden