Featuring 13 WBC-sanctioned bouts, fighters came from as far away as Taranaki and Wellington as well as Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, Balclutha, Invercargill and Wanaka.
Five Hurto Gym fighters won their bouts — Marcel Main, Julia Vassalos, Otis Clarbrough, Feyn Cox, who’s only 16, and Milo Skipper.
Main, 20, took out the main event fight, winning a Stirling Sports Queenstown $250 gift card for most spectacular technique of the night.
Skipper won a $500 prize for fighter of the night, showing skills beyond his two-fight experience against a very game opponent.
Horrocks says his other fighters — Federico O’Connor, Robert Straton, Connor Bourne and George Warswick — all had really close fights.
"They fought hard to the end."
O’Connor, 19, "took his fight on a week’s notice and fought a bit above his weight".
Horrocks says he’s grateful to main sponsor Stirling Sports Queenstown, the resort’s Crew Room which livestreamed the event, Shipleys Audiovisual, Owen Building and judges Paul Davis and Stewart Mitchell.
He also hosted a WBC officiating seminar earlier in the day — "it was a great success with coaches, fighters and enthusiasts in attendance".
