Twelve World Champs medals for Jamaican fighters
JAMAICA’s SIX-MAN martial arts team reaped seven gold, three silver, and two bronze medals at the October 15-19 International Sports Kick-Boxing Association’s Amateur Member Association (ISKA AMA) World Championships 2025 in Brisbane, Australia.
Akino Lindsay, the world’s most decorated ISKA AMA tatami (mat) fighter, further etched his name in kickboxing’s history books by completing a fifth consecutive World Championship double-gold haul in semi and light contact, extending his perennial dominance of the -90kg division.
Nicholai Reid also won double gold, but in differing weight divisions, -80kg in semi-contact and -75kg for light contact, completing his first-ever double gold at an ISKA AMA World Championships, joining Lindsay, Richard Stone and Nicholas Dusard as Jamaican male fighters to have achieved the feat.
Former Jamaica combined martial arts fighters, Sheckema Cunningham and Subrina Richards, are also down in ISKA AMA history, having won double gold in the female divisions, making the island one of the most successful countries to have participated at the annual tournament.
Sharic Bowen, competing at his second international tournament as a member of Jamaica ‘s combined martial arts team, won his first gold, semi-contact -65kg, adding a bronze in light contact.
Dusard and Stone, who both won double gold in Munich, Germany 2023, left Australia with semi-contact gold medals. Dusard and Stone also picked up silver and bronze, respectively, in light contact.
Adrian Moore, who was a part of the first Jamaican team to fight at the ISKA AMA World Championships in 2012, won double silver after an eight-year hiatus, having last fought at the 2018 tournament on home soil in Montego Bay.
- Ainsley Walters