Top European promotion Cage Warriors returns to its regular London home at the Indigo at The O2 for Cage Warriors 111, and the promotion is bringing a stacked card of fights to the capital Friday.
Three title fights will be on the line, with the headline bout featuring a hotly anticipated rematch of one of the promotion’s most controversial fights of 2019.
Middleweight champion [autotag]James Webb[/autotag] and challenger [autotag]Nathias Frederick[/autotag] battled to a majority draw at Cage Warriors 106 in a fight that saw Frederick (7-2-1 MMA, 0-0-1 CW) deducted a point for an illegal spike that eventually proved crucial on the judges’ scorecards. Without the deduction, Fredericks would have claimed the title, and that knowledge irked Webb (6-1-1 MMA, 4-1-1 CW), who expressed his frustration at the judges’ scoring of the fight. Now the pair will meet in a rematch in a bid to produce a definitive result.
Also on the card, two more fighters who captured titles at Cage Warriors 106 will look to complete maiden title defenses in their returns to London.
Denmark’s [autotag]Mads Burnell[/autotag] (12-3 MMA, 3-0 CW) produced one of the best submissions of the year to capture the featherweight title, and will hope for a similarly impressive finish when he puts his title on the line against England’s [autotag]Steve Aimable[/autotag] (14-5 MMA, 4-2 CW).
And England-based Lithuanian [autotag]Modestas Bukauskas[/autotag] (9-2 MMA, 4-1 CW) will look to cement his position as Cage Warriors’ premier 205-pounder by defeating Italian [autotag]Riccardo Nosiglia[/autotag] (8-1 MMA, 0-0 CW).
The fight card also features the return of former featherweight champion [autotag]Paddy Pimblett[/autotag] (14-3 MMA, 9-3 CW), who aims to kick-start a run toward the 155-pound title after moving up to lightweight. He takes on short-notice replacement and former “TUF” finalist [autotag]Joe Giannetti[/autotag] (8-2-1 MMA, 0-0 CW).
And former BAMMA welterweight champion [autotag]Alex Lohore[/autotag] (18-4 MMA, 3-1 CW) has his sights set on championship gold at 170 pounds. He takes on [autotag]Joilton Santos Lutterbach[/autotag] (30-8 MMA, 1-0 CW) looking for a performance to catapult himself into a title fight in early 2020.
The complete Cage Warriors 111 lineup includes:
MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 4 p.m. ET)
- Champ James Webb vs. Nathias Frederick – for middleweight title
- Champ Mads Burnell vs. Steve Aimable – for featherweight title
- Champ Modestas Bukauskas vs. Riccardo Nosiglia – for light heavyweight title
- Joe Giannetti vs. Paddy Pimblett
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 12:30 p.m. ET)
- Alex Lohore vs. Joilton Santos Lutterbach
- Daryl Golding vs. Emrah Sonmez
- Adam Amarasinghe vs. Liam Gittins
- Matthew Bonner vs. Warren Kee
- Ayton De Paepe vs. Cory Tait
- Mike Ekundayo vs. Luca Iovine
- Harry Davies vs. Josh Onwordi
- Jordan Barton vs. James Hendin
- Scott Butters vs. Kingsley Crawford