Despite their attempts To win glory and fortune on television, it was in the Kickboxing gymnasium where the brothers really prospered. They attended Storm Gym in Luton, a well -equipped installation in a former warehouse in a commercial field, under the supervision of Amir Subasic, a former military kickboxer, who was close to them and their family.
Gymnasium staff refused to comment Andrew or Tristan, and the gymnasium website was recently updatedwithdraw descriptions of Andrew as “one of the most devastating fighters” and Tristan as “a war machine”.
Johal, the owner of the Leicestershire gymnasium, thought that Andrew was a qualified kickboxer, admiring the way he fought with his hands, a high -risk strategy that allows fighters to ward and wove up quickly but exposes them to the dangers of a knockout.
Johal suspected that Andrew learned his talent for self-promotion during his years as a fighter. “Andrew has always been a little controversial. Sometimes you have to be the bad cop,” said Johal, explaining that the big money and the fights go to the most noisy pugilists.
“Andrew learned that for a long time ago. He always said things to go up people, to get noticed. As a person, he has nothing like that,” said Johal. He added thatrew went to online kickboxing forums and wrote controversial things to draw attention to his fights.
Ibrahim El Boustati, a Dutch Kickboxer who beat Andrew and took his league belt in 2016, told the Mirror that the male character Alpha is a whole act. “He lies to many people, he is not the person he says,” he told Tabloid. “I know him very well, Andrew and his brother Tristan. I spoke with them all week before the fight doing interviews, and he is a very kind person. ”
Andrew has also adopted an excessive approach to marketing his fights with the press to fight, developer An interviewer of Love 2 Fight, a Fight Sports Zine, in 2013 that he came from a mystical land called Wudan and was formed by a figure called Master Po. This story would later be incorporated into the Misogynous Tate training equipment, illustrated by cartoons elaborated in manga style, and adopted by his disciples.
“His fights were sold themselves,” said Johal. “He was literally called” Le Cobra “. Because like a cobra, his right hand, directly from behind, would knock most people. »»
The two brothers succeeded in the ring. Andrew has won several world title fights and Tristan won two British titles. Although this is not a lucrative business, he reported money. Andrew finally obtained a sports car, an Aston Martin DB9, when he won £ 10,000 during a fight.
“It was a pretty strange thing because it was an apartment in a room with an Aston Martin DB sitting outside,” recalls O’Halloran. This led to the origin of the famous nickname of Andrew “Top G.” “We always said when we were younger,” what a high g “,” recalls O’Halloran. “The guy is a high -level gangster here – he drives an Aston Martin.”
