Two Tameside fighters celebrate big wins

Two elite professional fighters from Manchester Top Team (MTT) have won key bouts bringing further success to the club based in Ashton-under-Lyne and enabling them to progress in the sport.

Dan Holt beat the highly experienced Ross Coe in the Elite Combat Championships show in Bolton while UFC prospect Louis Lee Scott travelled to Paris.

This was twenty-one-year-old lightweight Holt’s second professional win.

“I want to complete the year with four wins, experience new shows and hopefully fight abroad on a bigger platform,” said Holt.

“Most importantly I need to stay healthy and keep improving. I started competing in MMA as an amateur in 2021.

Prior to that I’d enjoyed a decorated amateur kickboxing career competing all over the world from six upwards and culminating in my being placed
second aged sixteen in a kickboxing world cup held in Dublin.

MTT has been my home since 2020- I love the facility and the coaching style, and with world class fighters like Louis around it creates a good vibe and excellent learning environment.

I also enjoy coaching the younger fighters and hopefully being a quality role model.

I’m known as ‘The Villain’. It’s my brand. Who I am. Outside the gym I’m boring. Martial Arts have given me a purpose in life.

When I’m not watching fights I’m studying conditioning, nutrition, strength training, human anatomy, and anything that’s relevant to my sport.”

MTT’s bantamweight Louis Lee Scott beat Youssoff Binate to win his ninth professional bout on the ARES championship by armbar stoppage late
in the first of five scheduled rounds.

A triumphant Scott stated: “Once again I entered the cage as an underdog in the opponent’s back yard and proved that I’m a level above all these
guys with a strong first round finish. The goal remains to be in the UFC as soon as possible.”

Scott hails from Leeds but followed his coach Carl Prince over the Pennines when MTT was established in 2019.

Prince was complimentary about the Paris win.

“Louis started off with his unique array of strikes before getting his nose broken by an uppercut.

He invited pressure from the opponent before getting Binate on the canvas with perfect timing allowing him to finish the bout with a slick transition
into armlock, forcing the opponent to tap out and get a submission win.

On the same evening Dan Holt used his kickboxing experience to beat a tough veteran of MMA landing some eye-catching blows and showing the
strong discipline needed to control the tempo of the bout.

He was justly rewarded with a unanimous decision victory not losing a single point and continuing his unblemished professional record.

We also had four junior fighters competing in the European championships and they all came home with medals.

MTT is going from strength to strength.”

Individuals or companies looking to sponsor Dan Holt or Louis Lee Scott should contact them on Instagram at ManchesterTopTeam (or villain.24s
for Holt) or e-mail contact@manchestertopteam.com.