At EFC 66, a watershed event which brought SA’s first mixed martial arts (MMA) reality show to a close, Algerian bantamweight mixed martial artist Rizlen "The Lioness of Atlas" Zouak had her SA opponent Jacqualine "Demolition Jacqui" Trosee seeing stars — 27 seconds into the first round of their bout. Zouak’s roundhouse kick to Trosee’s head was a coup de grace, a culmination of years of training, discipline and dedication. Similarly, Extreme Fighting Championship Africa’s (EFC Africa) rise to prominence as the biggest MMA promoter on the continent and a contender in the global MMA promotion arena, has demanded qualities that every successful fighter needs to come out tops. Brothers Cairo and Silas Howarth staged their first mixed martial arts bout, EFC 01, in 2009 after they had witnessed the sport’s global rise in popularity over a number of years. They have a longstanding affinity for martial arts. The slight, 1.85m Cairo and his brothers Silas and Calvin had taken up karate and ...
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