It’s time to look back and celebrate a fantastic 2009 for the Dinky Ninja Fight Team. Across the three gyms in Lanark, Glasgow and Dumbarton we’ve had our fighters compete in basically every combat sport going and had great success not just in MMA but in Muay Thai and BJJ as well this year. But going over everything we’ve done well would take forever so I’m just going to look at Semi-Pro (no headshots on the ground) MMA and full pro MMA.
Over the course of 2009 our 3 gyms have had 28 athletes compete in semi-pro MMA and full rules MMA. Some of these people are veterans of more than 20 pro fights and some had their first semi-pro fight this year, from weights ranging from 60kg to 120kg. 13 of those athletes competed under full pro rules, and 15 of them under semi-pro rules. To produce that many athletes able to compete in as demanding a sport in MMA is an accomplishment in itself and is testament to the fighters and their coaches.
The number of athletes competing allowed the team to take part in 70 fights this year, 45 of them professional fights.
70 fights by 28 athletes in 12 months, that’s something else to be proud of, but that’s just the tip.
Of those 70 fights we won 52 of them. That’s 74.3% of all the fights we took! 74.3% win record!
For pro fights we went 34-10-1 and semi pro 18-7-0.
We took on fighters from all over the UK and from Brazil, USA, Sweden, Lithuania, France, Ireland and more and won 3 times as many as we lost. I can’t think of many things more awesome than that.
This comes close.
Probably because I watched Role Models the other day and currently love KISS.
As does GWAR on Joan Rivers.
They’re from space!
KISS and GWAR might run us close but not only do we win fights, we finish them. Of our 18 semi-pro wins 14 were by sub and only 4 by decision, that’s a 78% finish rate. And when you let us hit people in the face on the ground or finishing rate gets even better. At pro of our 34 wins, 17 were by sub, 12 by TKO and 2 clean KO’s with only 4 fights going our way from the judges. That’s 88% of our pro wins coming within the distance!
Even when we lose we do it with fireworks, only 4 of our losses were by decision.
Not to finish on a negative note let’s look back.
28 fighters, 70 fights, 52 wins, 44 within the distance, 31 by sub ZHOO ZHITSUUU! That’s before we even look at our Thai record and BJJ wins.
Big thanks to everyone that made this possible, fighters, coaches everyone that trains with us, promoters for putting us on shows and especially the guys at Absolute Combat and Eurofight for taking huge financial risks in getting us fights against top international opponents and of course sponsors. You’ve got to thank your sponsors.
On the subject of sponsors, we’re looking to top 2009 by really breaking out in 2010 and already have some big matches in the pipeline so please get in touch with our fighters. I can give you contacts through here for them or their management or you can contact the gyms direct. Get on board the DNFT war wagon for 2010 and get your shit recognised.
Enough begging, guys great 2009! Get ready to better it in 2010, first team spar 3rd January at the D-Unit.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Merry Christmas, see you at the Sub Crawl.
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awesome stats, kiss and begging, all in one blog! – could it get any better?!
awesome
also add in 4 titles took this year
cage gladiators Uk BW
Turner win Total Combat UK LW title, and Bobbys Gladiator Scottish LW title
Joanne win IKF european title
kiss are good.
Scotty Ward took the Gladiator WW title as well.