Cage Rage 12. Full Card

[FieldingMellish]

Full card is here:

http://www.cagewarriors.com/page.asp?ID=974

Another show stacked with a mix of some of the best fighters in the UK and some very interesting international talent.

Two Chute Boxe reps, a Japanese Pride veteran, the return of Lee Murray, Herb Dean, another couple of UFC veterans and some very solid match-ups of UK talent.

Includes a fight for the now vacant CR World Heavyweight title. Not sure about the situation with Ian Freeman but since he’s vacated the belt I’d guess he’s either:

a.) retired
b.) his injury was a pretty serious one and his future is in jeopardy
c.) he’s finally making the much rumoured drop to 205
d.) couldn't agree on a deal to return to the promotion
e.) ITV1’s Celebrity Wrestling is such a huge success he’s going to concentrate on that from now on. [Note: heavy sarcasm alert for those who haven't seen or heard about possibly the worst and most pathetic television show in the history of, er, television]

Props to Andy Geer and Dave O’ Donnell for putting together another quality show and for Kainer2 at www.cagewarriors.com for the breaking news

[majorcunningham]

my god! that card is awesome. cage rage are really pushing the boat out.

i particularly wanna see antonio silva. he looks like a cross between tito ortiz and wanderlei silva, but he's a heavyweight! in his one fight, he slaughtered a very capable fighter, in Tengiz Tedoradze. im looking forward to seeing him in cage rage now!!!

check out how mean he looks

http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterid=12354

[FieldingMellish]

I could take him. LOL.

He's pretty scary and he's one of the most talked about HWs in Britain too. I haven't seen the Tengiz fight but pounding on Teoradze is pretty impressive stuff, especially in your pro debut.

Kainer2 should know plenty about him.

[( o Y o )]

I could take him.

Out for dinner and a drink perhpas :-p

Still, he looks as scary as Cyborg so I wouldn`t want to even step near the cage with him in it.

[FieldingMellish]

Out for dinner and drink, LMAO.

[kainer2]

Ian Freeman was never the CR world champion

Ian Freeman is the CR british Champion. I can e-mail you the document that first announced the switch to British and world titles if you like m8

[FieldingMellish]

My mistake, though how come Freeman was listed as World Champion on the handouts given by Cage Rage at the CR11 weigh-in? Am almost 100% he was. And how come he was defending a Britisah title against a Frenchman? I'm confused (it happens on a very regular basis)......

[kainer2]

Doh should have read the whole thread.....

Antonio Silva Junior fights on May21st as well against someone very brave who has yet to be announced. I was there when he forught Tnegiz and i stood in shock for about 10 minutes, i met Junior aterwards and the man is a mountain, he's huge but solid as well, no real mass flab or anything.

He took Tengiz down and pass his guard in a flash, he was light footed, Tengiz gave him his back and he unleashed some sick shots and Tengiz's head was bouncing like a yo yo. The ref stopped it and Tengiz was helped to his feet, then just fell back down not remembering a thing.

We got some big plans for Junior now he's a part of the new CWFC Fight Team "The Wolfslair Gym" These guys have an awesome gym that reviewed in our articles section and have world class coaches in BJJ, wrestling and boxing and can take guys in from abord and look after them as well. We got several of their guys and the boxing coach doign semi-pro already in July.

Good all star foreign line up by Cage Rage, which 1 interesting UK welterweight clash as well as the Middleweigth Brish title fight in which the loser will have to re-think their position, its a must win for Weir.

[kainer2]

My mistake, though how come Freeman was listed as World Champion on the handouts given by Cage Rage at the CR11 weigh-in? Am almost 100% he was. And how come he was defending a Britisah title against a Frenchman? I'm confused (it happens on a very regular basis)......

As you i wasn't there at CR 11, but i beileve that fight was for the vacant World Title.

Pm me your addy and i'll look for the orginal press release they sent me a few months back, as they put all the old UK nations who were their champs as british champ and their foreigners as world champs

[FieldingMellish]

Freeman and Midoux was for the "vacant" title, sorry you're right. Had completely forgot that very important word, lol. So with that fight not happening it's simply still vacant and Freeman never had it. Thanks.

[kainer2]

No problem

http://www.cagewarriors.com/page.asp?ID=751 and
http://www.cagewarriors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12176 explains it a bit more