Kicking king Brosnan strikes gold for Ireland

BRIAN BROSNAN became the first Irish fighter to win a gold medal in full contact kickboxing at the WAKO World Kickboxing Championships in Dublin on Saturday night.

The Galway Kickboxing Club member beat Stelyan Avramidi of Kazakhstan to claim the gold medal at -71kg by unanimous decision at the Citywest Hotel and Conference Centre in Dublin. Brosnan said: “I can’t even describe what it feels like to be world champion,

“I don’t think it has fully sunk in yet.”