James Durkin tasted success after defeating an unbeaten fighter at the Victorian Sports Club in Wallasey on Sunday 14th April 2019.
James who trains out of his fathers famous ‘The Dog Pit Pit’ in Ainsdale stopped his opponent in the first round.
Below is pictures of James and the Durkin team in action.
Boxing & MMA Classes at ‘The Dog Pit’
The gym classes are open for rank beginners to pro-fighters, and for kids to old aged pensioners.
There are twelve classes per week open to all ages. Paddy also gives private classes which is a good way to be introduced into the sport.
As well as Mixed Martial Arts there is Kettle Bell weight training, and Plyometrics training available for pro-athletics to novices.
‘The Dog Pit’ Gym in Ainsdale has already produced three Open Champions in Submission Wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and won hundreds of medals in competitions between them.
Paddy himself is a former Middle-weight Cage Fighting Champion, British Middle-weight (MMA) Mixed Martial Arts Champion (2005), Silver Medallist International Champion (Florida USA 2003), Gold Medallist British Open Submission Wrestling Champion 2004, and British Sambo Silver Medallist Wrestling Champion 2003.
For more information on training at The Dog Pit call 07936 829752 and ask to speak to Paddy.
Pancrase Inc. is a mixed martial arts promotion company founded in Japan in 1993 by professional wrestlers Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki.
The name was based on pankration, a fighting sport in the Ancient Olympic Games. Suzuki and Funaki practised catch wrestling. They based the promotion and its rules on professional wrestling. The promotion’s champions were called “King of Pancrase”.
The rules allowed closed-fisted punches, except to the head, and palm strikes to the head. A wrestler must break a submission hold when the opponent reaches the ropes, but a wrestler who claims a rope break loses a point. A wrestler who claims a specified number of rope breaks (between three and five) was disqualified. From 1998 to 2000, the promotion changed its rules to resemble other mixed martial arts promotions.
Pancrase participant Guy Mezger said that “there was not very many works[predetermined outcomes]. Maybe 4 or 5 total and most of them were before I was fighting for them. I hate when people say that there was [sic] so many works in Pancrase, they truly do not know what they are talking about”.
Beginning in 2007, Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial Arts aired weekly on ImaginAsian TV. The network folded in 2011.
In 2008, the Fight Network began airing Pancrase events in Canada and the U.K.
In 2015, Pancrase signed an exclusive, long-term deal to be streamed live and exclusively on UFC Fight Pass. Fight Pass also added all of Pancrase’s historical fights to its library on a video-on-demand basis.
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