POWER-CRAMMED and contest-jammed – that’s Pocklington-based Thai boxer Danny Harrison-Little.

Harrison-Little started his martial arts career at the Chokdee gym but in the last two months has moved across from Poppleton to Tang Hall, where he is again excelling at the Legions Club run by Al Chambers and Dave Phillips.

And a series of impressive performances have come during the busiest run of his combative career.

Harrison-Little has crammed in three bouts in the last five weeks, starting with an appearance for Great Britain in the World Association of Kickboxing Organisation’s world championships in Brazil, and culminating with a standout conquest at the biggest domestic Thai-boxing show so far held this season.

The 21-year-lold lost in Brazil, where the first ever appearance by a GB team in the world championships – coached by Phillips and York’s Gaz Watkinson from United Masters in Layerthorpe – witnessed the amateur contingent fro these shores against nations who almost all fielded fighters from the professional circuit.

However, on his return he enjoyed triumph and then last weekend Harrison-Little, who gained valuable experience fighting in Thailand when he was part of Richard Cadden’s Chokdee gym, faced a more daunting showdown.

Harrison-Little, a previous winner of the feted British Chang Cup a year ago, was on the bill of The Main Event in Manchester, England’s biggest show far yet this season.

Up against a previously unbeaten Jordan Roberts from the Payanark Gym in Rochdale, Harrison-Little stopped his opponent in the fifth round.

Said delighted coach Phillips: “Danny’s been very busy but he has shown a lot of improvement.

“We’ve been working on his hands more and with the technique he already has, all his hard work is starting to pay off for him. He’s turning into a very promising fighter.”