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Leon Rattigan is a promising contestant, professionals are judging after his recent achievement of winning a gold medal at the British Senior Championships. Last World Championships were not too good, but he still managed to reach TOP-20 in Denmark. The GB’s Wrestling director is hoping to see him at the London Olympics among all contestants.

“As a team, we finished 17th out of 51 countries in Denmark, and bearing in mind that at the last Worlds, two years ago, we were down in the 30s, overall we are making great progress.”

Let’s hope that the next World Wrestling Championships we will perform much better that two years ago, and with Leon I think this is really possible.

James Waithe, 47, has been put up in front the Bristol Crown Court as he has taken part in helping smuggle cocaine to the UK. Being a part of gang which at its height was earning more than 1m a day from the drug selling. Waithe represented Barbados at the 1988 Olympics and he fought for England at the 2006 Commonwealth Judo Championships.

Police have found a cocaine factory in his flat along with a nice arsenal of firearms, of course illegal, including shotguns, pistols and rifles. There was no explosives at the place apart from the stun grenades.

The jury is still waiting for the verdicts against Waithe for illegal possession of firearms .

“I’m a better fighter now.” – says Khan who has been defeated last year in Manchester by Prescott. He mentioned, that this fight let him become a man, and he’s definitely ready now to defend the title against Dmitriy Salita on 5th of December at Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle.

Salita was unbeaten for 31 fights and knocked-out 16 opponents which is pretty impressive. He claimed that he’s not afraid and will make use of the vulnerability that was exposed in 2008 by Prescott. Salita also explained that he admires Khan because of his achievements that he accomplished during his very short career.

Bolton fighter says that he’s not concerned about Salita, as he has “slow, sticky feet”. We will see about that on 5th of December!

Barack Obama is well known for his dance skills as well as the basketball thing. Now he had a chance to show the world his more violent part by demonstrating his taekwondo skills after receiving the uniform and a belt fromt he South Korean president Lee Myung-bak.

The president has studied the martial arts for four years between 2001 and 2005 while he was a junior senator in Illinois. Apart from this he and the Korean president took a very firm stance against North Korea to pressure them to fall back in line and return to the nuclear talks.

North Korea is capable of  doing some weird things, first returning to the talks and then getting back to where they were with the nuclear weaponry.

Robbie Leaning definitely has something to be proud of. At the age of nine, after three years of training and going through different belts he finally was given a chance to join his sister, Micha in the final test for the black belt in taekwondo. Robbie is one of few youngsters who achieved the black belts on 21st of November.

Micha mentioned that it’s really amazing and she is willing to start competing in tournaments to prove herself as a fighter. They still have a lot to learn and let’s hope they won’t stop on these black belts, as this is a really big opportunity.