Two of our Innisfail fighters step out within eleven days of each other next month, on opposite sides of the world.
Kyle in Tokyo, 19 October
Kyle Mayocchi fights Yoshino Hikaru at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on 19 October, on the Lemino SHOOTO 9 card presented by NTT Docomo. Bantamweight, three five-minute rounds.
Korakuen Hall is one of the sport’s proper rooms. Japanese combat sports have run through that building for decades, and Shooto is among the oldest promotions in mixed martial arts. A long way from Michael Street, and a good place to be asked to fight.
Brodie for the title in Brisbane, 30 October
Eleven days later, Brodie Mayocchi fights Justin Van Heerden for the Beatdown Promotions lightweight championship at the Eatons Hill Hotel in Brisbane, on Friday 30 October.
Brodie goes in undefeated. Beatdown are billing Van Heerden as an Australian veteran. It headlines Beatdown 15, and it is live and free on DAZN — so you can watch this one from the couch at no cost.
Both are Innisfail
Kyle and Brodie are Daryl Mayocchi’s sons, and the Mayocchi family are the reason there is a gym at Michael Street at all. Both brothers are in New Zealand at the moment, training at City Kickboxing ahead of these fights.
If you train at Innisfail, you have shared a mat with them. Get around them next month.
Earlier in the month your Muay Thai coach Jesse Clarke fights in Townsville, on the same card as James Richardson from Stratford: two of our coaches on one bill.
