Although now living in the Bournemouth area for the past 8 years, southpaw Steve Bendall was born on the 1st December 1973 in Coventry, West Midlands. As an amateur boxer representing the Triumph Amateur Boxing Club in Coventry, he achieved an impressive total of 116 contests, with 96 wins.

During this early part of his boxing career, middleweight Steve represented England on 20 occasions, winning a total of 5 National Titles and also reaching the National finals of 3 other contests. In 1996, Steve represented England in the European Championships which were also the Olympic Qualifiers for that year.

On behalf of England, as an amateur Steve has won Bronze, Silver and Gold medals in various multi-national tournaments and a Gold medal in 1996....which placed him in contention for a wild card to the Olympics.

In 1997 at the age of 23 years, Steve turned professional winning all his first 22 fights and achieving both the W.B.U. Inter-Continental and the I.B.O. Inter-Continental titles and thus becoming the mandatory contender for the British title.  He has been a challenger for the British, European and Commonwealth titles and was English Champion in a career to-date of 33 fights with 29 Wins and just 4 losses. And in his latest contest on the 23rd June 2008 at the Birmingham National Indoor Arena, Steve achieved a points win over 10 rounds against Paul Smith and thus secured the English Middleweight Championship.

Dale Powell

Dale gained his level 3 with the YMCA and is qualified in resistance and free weight training , nutritional programs and supplement advice , circuit training and training in different environments .

Dale comes from a professional American football background playing for Great Britain and in Finland offering great knowledge of strength training , plyometrics and endurance.

Dale is proud to be one of the team members at the Fighting Fit Gym .

 

Sifu Rob started training in Martial Arts at the age of 12, and over the last 24 years has indulged in various styles. During this time there were a few styles that held more interest, that have become the core components of modern day Mixed Martial Arts – Kung Fu, Western Boxing, Thai Boxing, and Ju-Jitsu.

During his life in Martial Arts, Sifu Rob has had the privilege to meet and train with some legendary instructors such as Grand Master Yip Chun (Son of the legendary Yip Man – Bruce Lee’s Wing Chun instructor), Master Michael Tze, and Master Samuel Kwok.

Sifu Rob’s main training background is with 2 local schools that were essentially teaching MMA, before MMA was branded as such. Governed by Bruce Lee’s principle of ‘Keep what is useful, reject what is useless’ (still the main philosophy of Jeet Kune Do), these schools used a core foundation of the speed and precision of Wing Chun, mixed with Western Boxing, Thai Boxing, and Ju-Jitsu grappling. He trained with these schools for many years, became a senior instructor with them, before branching out on his own to pursue his own blend of ideas for MMA.