After nearly twenty years of uncompromised training and successful competition as both a kickboxer and most recently a professional boxer (current IFBA Jr. Flyweight World 

Champion), After nearly twenty years of uncompromised training and successful competition as both a kickboxer and most recently a professional boxer (current IFBA Jr. Flyweight World  retirement from professional competition and the opening of the Messer boxing and kickboxing club, RING SPORTS UNITED, in Bellevue, WA.

With the opening of their own gym, this dynamic team will use their ring-proven experiences and expertise to bring others into the competitive arena, and pass on the rigorous training, technique and discipline it takes to compete with the world’s finest athletes.

In keeping with this objective, a young and talented 2008 Olympic Boxing hopeful, Jennifer Han (w/Kim, left), was flown in from Texas for Kim’s Official Glove hanging and to do some training, sparring and see the Seattle sites with Kim and Mark.

The Messer’s work with all levels of skill and ambition, believing in the outstanding fitness benefits of a technically correct boxer’s/kickboxer’s training program. "We like to accommodate individuals simply looking for an effective fitness program just as much as those who want to compete," Mark explains, "It creates a balanced, friendly and energy-filled atmosphere. That’s what Ring Sports is about."

RINGSIDE WITH THE MESSER TEAM

STARTING OUT
In the late ‘80s, when Kim and future husband, Mark Messer, earned Martial Arts Black Belts and together accumulated an arsenal of trophies, they decided to stake their claim in the professional arena and formulated a plan. Kim would fight. Mark would be the driving force to take her to the top.

BOXING – IFBA WORLD CHAMPION
As a result of Mark’s focused training and diligent promotion, Kim transitioned well into professional boxing. In August of 2000, she was invited to Seoul, South Korea to become that country’s first woman to fight professionally, coming away with the IFBA Jr. Flyweight World Boxing Title.

DESTINY
As destiny would have it, Kim’s mysterious life began in Korea. At the age of two or three, no one knows for sure, little Kee Soon (Kim’s Korean name) was abandoned and taken to live in an orphanage. Three years later she was adopted and settled in nicely with her new American family, who loved her and supported the visible athletic talents that came so naturally to her.