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WAKT heads to Cullompton on Saturday 7th November for MTGP Fight Night South West, with Matt Bramall contesting the vacant KGP Pro Kickboxing title against Thompson of Kings Muay Thai. Culm Valley Sports Centre, EX15 1LL, doors open at 3pm. Matt won't be walking out...

Tuesday night at WAKT is Ultimate Muay Thai, 6pm to 7:30pm. Ninety minutes, and it covers the lot. We open with a warm up and stretch to get you moving properly, then straight into drills and skills. From there it's instructor led pad work, where a coach holds for you...

WAKT took six fighters to the British Championships on Saturday and came home with three golds and two bronze medals. A proper result, and one that says a lot about the work that goes in on ordinary weeknights in Pool. Here's the thing worth saying though. Not one of...

Lottie, one of our junior fighters, won gold at the British Championships on Saturday. It was her first ever fight. She has been training at WAKT for 14 months. In that time she has not missed a class. She is at Fighter Squad every week without fail, she enters every...

Six WAKT fighters stepped up at the British Amateur Championships on Saturday and came back with three gold medals and one bronze. The British Amateur Championships bring together the strongest amateur Muay Thai in the country. Every bout is hard earned and nothing is...

This Friday, the WAKT fight team travels up to Solihull to compete in the Muay Thai GB British Championships on Saturday 3rd October. The whole team has been working really hard in preparation. Early mornings, hard sparring, and plenty of graft in the gym. We know...

Some of the women training at WAKT, working the pads on a Tuesday night. If you've been curious about Muay Thai but weren't sure it was for you, it is. You don't need experience or fitness to start, you build both here. Tuesday: Ultimate Muay Thai, 6pm to 7:30pm....

One of our young fighters is already showing serious power on the heavy bag, drilling circular knees and centre knees with real intent. She didn't start out like this. Nobody does. Every fighter at WAKT walked through the door as a beginner, and what got them here was...

This is the WAKT squad. All ages, all levels, training hard and pushing each other on. A new week is a fresh chance to be the best version of yourself, and it doesn't start with talking about it. It starts by showing up and putting the work in. Our Tuesday Ultimate...

There's no substitute for hard work. Our fighters put the hours in, drilling, sparring, grinding through conditioning like the Thai sit-ups pictured here, all in preparation for what's next. Thursday night training: 6pm, Sparring drills & skills 7pm, Freestyle power...