In the ab­sence of ath­letes, T&T’s top in­ter­na­tion­al mixed mar­tial arts of­fi­cial, War­ren Gill, has been fly­ing T&T’s flag with much pride.

Gill, the ref­er­ee for sev­en bouts at last year’s In­ter­na­tion­al Mixed Mar­tial Arts Fed­er­a­tion World Youth Cham­pi­onships in Abu Dhabi, as well as a judge in over 46 fights, is cur­rent­ly in Bel­grade, Ser­bia, dis­play­ing the red, white, and black of T&T at the on­go­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Mixed Mar­tial Arts Fed­er­a­tion (IM­MAF) Eu­ro­pean Cham­pi­onships 2025, which fea­tures a Eu­ro­pean Youth Cham­pi­onship, a Eu­ro­pean Ju­niors Cham­pi­onship, and a Eu­ro­pean Se­niors Cham­pi­onship.

Gill has rep­re­sent­ed T&T be­fore at the Pan-Amer­i­can Cham­pi­onships in Mex­i­co and Colom­bia, as well as the World Cham­pi­onships in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan, and Al­bi­na. He al­so of­fi­ci­at­ed at the World Youth Cham­pi­onships in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates in Abu Dhabi.

Co­in­ci­den­tal­ly, T&T was rep­re­sent­ed at the World Youth Cham­pi­onships in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates in Abu Dhabi for the first time by a five-mem­ber team com­pris­ing Alyssa Adams, who earned a bronze medal.

Adams start­ed her cam­paign by de­feat­ing Ire­land’s Mag­gie Meaney, who at the time was favoured to win the 52 kg C class. Lat­er, how­ev­er, Adams, a Gra­cie jiu-jit­su fight­er who trains un­der Gill as the tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor, was then beat­en in the semi­fi­nals by Azer­bai­jan’s Son­aye­va Ayan, who lat­er went on to win the sil­ver medal.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, T&T’s Mixed Mar­tial Arts Fed­er­a­tion pres­i­dent Ja­son Fras­er told the me­dia the lo­cal mixed mar­tial arts fed­er­a­tion con­tin­ues to fly the T&T flag in every as­pect of am­a­teur and pro­fes­sion­al sports world­wide.

Ac­cord­ing to Fras­er, “We are very proud of War­ren Gill, as it is not easy to be an of­fi­cial at the high­est lev­el. On­ly the top-qual­i­ty ref­er­ees at­tend these cham­pi­onships, and to be se­lect­ed as an of­fi­cial, one must be an ac­cred­it­ed, cer­ti­fied of­fi­cial un­der the IM­MAF.”

Fras­er is now de­sirous of tak­ing an­oth­er team back to Abu Dhabi at the World Youth Cham­pi­onships, with hopes of re­turn­ing with more than the lone medal they won last year.

He said the team has al­ready been se­lect­ed and has been train­ing since Jan­u­ary.