Who we are

Jones MMA and fitness was founded by Niayl Jones and Vladimir Dvorak in 2021.

Combined they have over 25 years of martial arts experience and competed in over 70 bouts in various combat sports.

Assisting founders Niayl and Vlad are a small group of coaches who have gained coaching experience in the gym and fight experience in the ring resutling in them becoming talented coaches.

Niayl and Vlad after winning the U.K. MMA League in 2013

Niayl and Vlad after winning the U.K. MMA League in 2013

Learn more about our team.

VLAD

Vladimir was born in the Czech Republic where he started his martial arts journey by training Judo as a junior, he later joined kickboxing.

After arriving to the island, he quickly joined local MMA club, then Thai boxing and jiu jitsu club.

Vlad has had over 35 fights in various combat sports.

Working his way through amateur fights all the way to professional fights in 2015

In 2012 he won a UK Amateur MMA Champion Title

Most recent fight was in Thailand fighting in Thai boxing against local contender who has had over 300 fights.

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Niayl Jones

Niayl first started training in 2010 when he was 15 years old at age 17 he had his first MMA fight and In his third fight he won the Amateur UK MMA Championship title.

Following his Title win Niayl started Fighting in the semi-professional MMA ranks and after a few more wins he fought for the Cagewarriors southeast MMA title but lost to a much more experienced opponent.

Niayl also had two amateur boxing matches while training at MANX A.B.C winning both the matches by TKO

Since 2016 Niayl has been traveling to Thailand to train and fight.

Currently Niayl has had 29 matches spanning across multiple combat sports.

Notable achievements

-10 Professional fights

-Fought on Thai national television twice

-Professionally boxed on Thairath TV

-Winner of a professional MMA championship fight in China

- Competed in MMA, Boxing, Muaythai, Kickboxing and Jiu jitsu.

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Meet the Team

 

Sophia Reid

Recently we added a mobility/ flexibility class to help our students with their general flexibility as it was clear that many were in need of it. For us it was obvious that Sophia was the right Girl for the job!

Sophia started training MMA when we first opened, before that she was a gymnast for 10 years she is without a doubt the most athletic and physically talented person at the gym.

With our experience we can adjust our teaching method to suit you, everybody learns in a different way so we will adapt our training methods to help you improve as fast as possible.