It has been a year since Hamdan Mokhtar, Mohd Ali Yaakub and Khoo Meng Yang participated in the IFMA World Championships, held in Busan, Korea. Khoo Meng Yang brought back a bronze medal. Mohd Ali and Hamdan only losing to the World Champions their respective categories.
Then we participated in the IFMA Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia. Here our team won the 'Most Improved Team' award. Our fighters did well with Faizal Ramli and Mohd Ali Yaakub winning gold medals, Mohd Noramin ,silver and Ismail Ramli, Mohd Sukri(Ejo) and Mohd Azwan(Bob) with bronze medals.
Yet again we will be sending a team to participate in these the World Championships. The participation criteria and weight categories are as listed below-
| Weight Category | Over kg. | To kg. |
| Pin | 42 | 45 |
| Light Fly | 45 | 48 |
| Fly | 48 | 51 |
| Bantam | 51 | 54 |
| Feather | 54 | 57 |
| Light | 57 | 60 |
| Light Welter | 60 | 63.5 |
| Welter | 63.5 | 67 |
| Light Middle | 67 | 71 |
| Middle | 71 | 75 |
| Light Heavy | 75 | 81 |
| Cruiser | 81 | 86 |
| Heavy | 86 | 91 |
| Super Heavy | 91 | + |
Fighters need to be between 18 and 35 years of age.
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