Clash Championships Brixton London

Roman Carnell was due to fight on the S3 show in Birmingham in February but unfortunately his opponent pulled out due to illness.

After desperately looking for a show we eventually found a promoter James Toomey who kindly agreed to try and find a suitable match for Roman on his show in Brixton in London yesterday.

After a number of possibilities we were finally offered a match with a local London fighter called Kimani. Kimani is experienced being a 2x ISKA Muay Thai and K1 champion, WMO European champion!!! It was this fight or none and a difficult call but after checking him out we thought Roman would give him a good fight and win or lose it would be a great learning fight for him.

It wasn’t the usual show, the fight was 3×2 min rounds, N class rules and it was a very small venue with no seating and no Muay Thai round or Ram Muay music!! It had a real gritty fight club feel to it.

The fight was a good Muay Thai bout with both fighters using good solid Muay Thai techniques throughout.

Kimani had a slightly higher work rate than Roman in the first round and scored well with his hands and low kicks. Roman used his body kicks well and scored well in the clinch.

In the second round Roman stepped up the pace scoring well with both hands and legs with some good exchanges but Kimani was just that little bit sharper and more accurate, especially with his hands.