Michael Howarth - Photographer

Supershowdown Muay Thai SHow at the Macron Stadium Bolton. 07 April 2024. Lewis George (GFC) V Owen Gillis (MASDA) is the headline bout.

Supershowdown Muay Thai show at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton. Featuring World, Eurpoean and British title fights and Muay Thai fighters from the UK, Italy, Morocco and France.

Supershowdown Muay Thai show at the Macron Arena in Bolton. World Class Muay Thai. WBC Title Fights.

Dubbed The Battle of Britain by Promoter Matchroom Boxing, the headline fight of the evening, a World Title fight between Carl "The Cobra" Froch V George "St" Groves proved to be a phenomenal fight with Froch hitting the canvas early, only to get up and fight his way at least into being in with a chance. Groves continued to outpoint the champion from Nottingham throughout the fight until later on with Froch needing a stoppage to win, he caught Groves with a combination which saw the referee wave off the fight and hand the fight to Carl Froch. On the undercard of the bill, WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion Scott Quigg took on Argentina's Diego Silva, taking an emphatic win by stoppage in the second round.

The day Thai Fight came to England and brought with it a multitude of Thailand's finest fighting stars to take on the best Europeans - The show featured the legendary two times K-1 Max champion Buakaw Por Pramuk of Banchamek gym against Toure Abdul of France. Also featured on the Bill were Thai Superstars - Saiyok Pumpanmuangwindysport, Singmanee Kaewsamrit, Armin, Pumpanmuangwindysport and the king of showboating, Sudsakorn Sor.Klinmee. Uk stars on the show included the massively popular Jordan Watson of the famous Bad Company gym in Leeds, Michael Dicks, Craig Jose and Solomon Wickstead who was a late replacement for Liam Harrison who had to pull out through a late training injury.

The Main Event, 31st March 2012 the biggest Muay Thai show in the UK so far, at Event City in Manchester over 3000 people witnessed Liam Harrison (UK) V Andrei Kulebin (Bel) the two best Nak Muay in the world outside of Thailand. Supporting the headline bill were Ric Barnhil (UK) V David Circo (Ita) as well as a hotly anticipated clash between two of the UK's favourites Tim 'TNT' Thomas and Andy Thrasher, both putting their respective world titles on the line to see who's best. Also featuring Andrew "The Cobra" Tate V Joe McGovern. Enjoy all the images I captured from the show in my online photograph gallery here.