Taylor Jeffrey. Unified European Championships, Germany

This is my daughter Taylor Jeffrey we are currently trying to gain funding for to help enable her to compete in The Unified European Championships, Arnsberg, Germany, on the 23rd & 24th November.

Taylor has been competing for under two years and has won more tournament titles than any of us ever expected within various organisations including 2 unified World Championships in Italy last year and winning top female fighter at the WKO Open World Championships this year bringing home 7 world championships after a gruelling 2 days of fighting both in ring, on the mat while fighting up in both age and weights.

Taylor is admired by many for her dedication and commitment to her training and her martial arts as a whole. She currently trains 4 times a week with Rob Taylor and the team at Taylor’s Academy of Sport Karate, she trains twice a week with Mo Malik at Viper Academy of Martial Arts as well as giving back and teaching the children’s class there on a Wednesday evening.

Taylor also trains 5 times a week Monday-Friday at Defintion gym with myself, my partner and her sister. She also does at least one personal training session in there with her Coach Rob T Taylor in which she leaves many of the bodybuilders amazed by her achievements.

On top of that Taylor has started earning her own money to be able to pay to use another venue for extra Friday morning session to enable her to train in a ring, as until recently she had only ever been inside a ring when competing in one and she felt the need to train in one to master the ring craft that she believed was missing and that she felt she would need when she steps into the ring next weekend for her first ever ring show fight at WKO’s Revenge or Repeat 2.

Taylor’s first competition was less than two years ago, anybody that was there saw that it was a rocky beginning, nerves, lack of experience and a lack of fitness was there for all to see. Unlike most people she didn’t let this hold her back and pushed on from

her initial disappointments and she has pushed herself forward to another level. It is safe to say that she is probably now regarded as one of the best young female competitors on the UK Kickboxing tournament scene and would love to go back and try her luck again in Europe after last year.

In her time competing so far she has won

4 x English Championships

9 x British Championships

7 x European Championships

11 x World Championships

2 x Unified World Championships

3 x WKO Grand Champion

2 x WKO Undisputed Grand Champion

Through these results Taylor had qualified to compete for numerous England or Great Britain squads at other championships throughout Europe but because of financial difficulties we made the decision to stick to just WKO this year as their Head Coach is also her club coach so the familiarity helps her to flow better. That and the fact that they were attending the Unified European Championships, Germany and the other one being the WKA World Championships in June where Taylor competed and won 3 world championships.