NWT Kickboxing Fundraising Kickboxing and Dinner Event

In the North there’s nothing more important than fostering our local sports teams, specifically within our youth organizations. It is these sports groups that allow our Northern youth to have a health and fitness related lifestyle, while staying clear of crime and violence and progressing in education and employment.

NWT Boxing & Kickboxing currently has 70 youth amateur athletes registered with WAKO Canada (World Association of Kickboxing Organizations). This past June, we had eight athletes compete at the WAKO Canadian National Championships which was the largest combat sport tournament in Canadian history with over 500 athletes competing. We are proud to say that seven of our eight athletes medaled, and all of our athletes performed very well for their first tournament, and first fights ever.

With the success of our small team, we now have more amateurs who wish to start competing. The issue that we are currently facing is that as we are a new Territorial Sports Organization (TSO) and we currently do not have financing to travel to compete and there are no local events to compete on as there is currently only one club in the territory. Without the ability to compete our athletes will never gain the ring experience needed to become competitive in high-level tournaments like Nationals and Worlds. Besides training, competing is the primary part to becoming a high-level combat sport athlete. Without it, our young amateurs cannot gain the much needed experience in the ring to further their sports careers.

By showing your support of this event, you’re showing your community that you believe in our young athletes and you are giving them a chance to get some much needed ring experience before heading to the 2023 National Championship in March.