IFMA Nordic Championship 2005-06-18

[danvari]

The thaiboxing associatíons of the nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark) have decided to arrange the Nordic Championship in amateur thaiboxing. This event will be held under IFMA rules (protection, elbow strikes and knees to the head).

One purpose of this event is to prepare the nordic national teams for the World Championship.

Also the event will feature a super fight with Pethmanee Bass, previously ranked nr 2 on Lumpini Stadium.

The event will take place on Saturday 18th of June at VBC Sportcenter (http://www.vbc.se) in Stockholm, Sweden (directions (http://www.vbc.se/kontakt/index.html)).
A preliminary fight card follows:

Semi Finals
1. -60kg male: Masar Sohail (DEN) Vs Niklas Karlsson (SWE)
2. -71kg male: Johnny Bilager (DEN) Vs Juuso Kattainen (FIN)

Finals
3. -67kg male: Michael Clemmensen (DEN) Vs Tommi Karttunen (FIN)
4. -67kg female: Fatima Khatouti (DEN) Vs Petra Martinez (FIN)
5. -57kg male: Kristo Keskipoikela (FIN) Vs Alex Kazemi (SWE)
6. -63.5kg female: Tuulikki Strengell (FIN) Vs Lisa Östman (SWE)
7. -63.5kg male: Dijit Thanomrat (DEN) Vs Tommi Pitkälä (FIN)
8. -71kg female: Kristina Larsson (DEN) Vs Mirja Marjamäki (FIN)
9. -75kg female: Katri Hasa (FIN) Vs Magdalena Kowalzyck (SWE)
10. -75kg male: Saku Kaipia (FIN) Vs Frank Hoffstetter (SWE)
11. -81kg male: Nuutti Ventoniemi (FIN) Vs Fredric Rosenberg (SWE)
12. -91kg male: Carsten Meynard (DEN) Vs Miika Kinnunen (FIN)
13. -60kg male: Jesse Palanto (FIN) Vs Winner of 1:st fight
14. -71kg male: William Schafferer (SWE) Vs Winner of 2:nd fight

Super Fight
15. -67kg male: Tommi Karttunen (FIN) Vs Pethmanee Bass (SWE)

[Amron]

cool event

[Sozaburo]

Pethmanee Bass lost by TKO to Tommi Pitkälä who is fighting on 63.5 kg category, Bass gave up in third round.

Fight record (http://www.muaythai.fi/index.php?id=30) of Tommi Karttunen.

[TheDude]

Results?

[danvari]

I didn't write the results down at the event and I haven't seen the official results yet but I'll try to write what I remember (and I might be wrong).
If anyone else was at the event please help me fill the results in. I'll update this post when I get the official results.

The card had some changes (as always).

Semi Finals
1. -60kg male Masar Sohail (DEN) Vs. Niklas Karlsson (SWE)
Niklas Karlsson by decision.

2. -71kg male Johnny Bilager (DEN) Vs. Juuso Kattainen (FIN)
Juuso Kattainen by decision.

Finals
3. -67kg male Michael Clemmensen (DEN) Vs. Tommi Karttunen (FIN)
Tommy Karttunen by decision.

4. -57kg male Kriso Keskipoikela (FIN) Vs. Alex Kazemi (SWE)
Alex Kazemi by decision.

5. -63.5kg female Tuulikki Strengell (FIN) Vs. Lisa Östman (SWE)
I don't remember.

6. -63.5kg male Mohammed El Mia (DEN) Vs. Tommi Pitkälä (FIN)
Tommi Pitkälä by decision.

7. -71kg female Kristina Larsson (DEN) Vs. Mira Marjamäki (FIN)
Mira Marjamäki by decision.

8. -75kg female Katri Hasa (FIN) Vs. Magdalena Kowalzyck (SWE)
Katri Hasa by decision.

9. -75kg male Saku Kaipia (FIN) Vs. Frank Hoffstetter (SWE)
Frank Hoffstetter by split decision. The finnish team has protested against the decision so the result is open until next week.

10. -91kg male Carsten Meynard (DEN) Vs. Miika Kinnunen (FIN)
Miika Kinnunen by decision.

11. -60kg male Jesse Palanto (FIN) Vs. Niklas Karlsson
Jesse Palanto by decision.

12. -71kg male William Schafferer Vs. Juuso Kattainen
Juuso Kattainen by decision.

Muaythai Prestige Fight (no IFMA-protection, with elbow protectors)
13. -67kg male Tommi Karttunen (FIN) Vs. Pethmanee Bass (SWE)
Tommi Karttunen by KO R3.

I thought this was a good amateur event that showed us that the quality of nordic fighters is quite high. The finnish fighters impressed me a lot, must be because of the SISU.

Saku Kaipia Vs. Frank Hoffstetter was a great fight, and in my opinion really really close, so I can understand why it went to split decision. We'll see what happens with the protest.

The superfight was nice, a bit slow paced in the beginning and I would like to have seen it end a bit later, but Karttunen did a great job, especially considering that he had fought 4 rounds earlier the same day.

[Amron]

thanks for the results an the roundup!!

BTW what is the 'SISU'??

[Chief]

I would say that "SISU" is something like guts. In USA they say, that some fighter has guts, what ever happens in the fight, he goes on... But of course, SISU is something much more powerful.

In Finland sisu has lots of in common with so called "spirit of the winter war". Finns know what it is like to fight as a underdog.

[Amron]

aha - i got it, thanks for the clear-up