“If you think you're beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you’d like to win, but think you can’t, you won’t.”
That’s the unflinching motto ‘sensei’ Karl Kilbride instills in every fighter who walks through the doors of Team Kilbride Muay Thai Boxing Gym in Birkenhead. Karl, 55, from Wallasey, started kickboxing in 1986, when he was just 18, and fought 55 times during his 14-year career.
“I saw kickboxing on telly and I knew straight away that’s what I wanted to do,” Karl told the ECHO. “My trainer Alby Bimpson was like a father figure to me. He took me under his wing and was a real legend. Over the years I won the North West, English, British and Intercontinental Kick Boxing titles and managed to beat the Brazilian, French and South African champions.”
