On Sunday Malta will take part in a Thai Boxing competition which will be held in Cyprus. Reuben Azzopardi will be the athlete representing Malta in this event.

The competition is being organised by the World Kickboxing Network (WKN), a world spread association which organises Kickboxing and Thai Boxing competitions on an international level.

Azzopardi has a Black Belt in the Martial Art called Spirit Combat and a Brown Belt in Kickboxing. He is a student of Master Noel Mercieca, founder of the Ying Yang Kickboxing Club, with whom he trained the Kickboxing discipline for the past seven years. In the past four months he has been training abroad to enhance his skills in the Art of Thai Boxing.

Azzopardi has different them local, European and international titles in Kickboxing. He was the first Maltese kickboxer that took part in a WKN match organised back in 2007 in Turin.

The six year in a row Maltese light heavyweight champion will compete in Cyprus at a professional level. There he will face Christos Nikolaou, the 82kg weight category champion of Cyprus. The match is going to be divided in five rounds of three minute each. For this match the K1 rules for Thai Boxing will be used, which means that knee strikes will be allowed during the match. But such techniques are allowed only to the stomach and lower body areas.