Cage Warriors 111 results: Nathias Frederick turns up power, stops James Webb to claim title

Nathias Frederick exploded into action late in Round 4 to stop middleweight champion James Webb at Cage Warriors 111 in London.

LONDON – [autotag]Nathias Frederick[/autotag] produced a thrilling finale of flying fists and knees to stop [autotag]James Webb[/autotag] and capture the Cage Warriors middleweight title in their championship rematch at Cage Warriors 111 on Friday night.

The first meeting between the pair ended in a draw after Frederick fell foul of point deductions for an illegal spike on the champion, while Webb bemoaned the judging that saw him only scrape a draw, despite the scorecard sanctions handed to his opponent.

It meant a rematch was essential, and the pair met in a grueling encounter in the main event at Indigo at The O2 that looked set to go all the way to the judges’ scorecards once again. But Frederick had other ideas.

The Birmingham-based middleweight – a teammate of Leon and Fabian Edwards at Team Renegade – looked to find a home for his strikes early in each stanza, but found himself under intense pressure from Webb’s grinding wrestling-heavy approach as the champion looked to wear heavy on the challenger throughout the first three rounds.

But heading into the fourth frame, Webb’s gas tank started to run dry, and Frederick took full advantage. And, after being shoved against the fence for long spells, Frederick came to life and unleashed a blistering volley of strikes that overwhelmed Webb, who covered up against the cage.

With Frederick ceaselessly unloading heavy-handed punches and punishing knees, referee Rich Mitchell stepped in to call a stop to the fight with just one second remaining in the penultimate round.

Bukauskas calls for UFC chance after powerful TKO finish

In the night’s co-main event, light heavyweight champion [autotag]Modestas Bukauskas[/autotag] scored a decisive stoppage victory to complete his first title defense, then revealed that he had recovered from a pre-fight scare after dislocating his left knee just three weeks before the fight.

Lithuanian-born, England-based Bukauskas finished [autotag]Riccardo Nosiglia[/autotag] inside a round with a salvo of powerful elbows to cement his position as the organization’s premier 205-pounder, then called on Dana White and the UFC matchmakers Sean Shelby and Mick Maynard to give him a chance at the big time.

“I’m ready for the UFC!” he declared. “Please give me my shot! Please give me the chance to show I’m ready for the world stage!”

Burnell boxes clever to claim dominant decision win

Cage Warriors featherweight champion [autotag]Mads Burnell[/autotag] is well known for his submission skills, but in his main card non-title matchup with [autotag]Steve Aimable[/autotag] he showcased his educated hands in an impressive display of his boxing skills.

After a dominant round of striking from the Dane, Aimable came storming back at the start of Round 2 with some solid shots of his own, and a big uppercut briefly appeared to stun the reigning 145-pound champ. But Burnell came firing back with well-placed shots as he ripped Aimable to the head and body with strong, accurate punches.

Eventually, Aimable was forced to switch tactics, but his attempted pick-up and slam ended up with Burnell threatening with his go-to submission – the Japanese necktie – before eventually finishing the round in top position, landing strikes.

Burnell continued to outbox Aimable through Round 3, using his superior accuracy and smart head movement to land cleanly while avoiding Aimable’s best shots. Then, with two minutes remaining, the Dane took the fight to the mat once again and maintained top position to see out the remaining seconds of the fight, and a landslide victory on the scorecards with scores of 30-26 across the board.

Santos stuns Lohore in war of welterweight contenders

In the main card opener, Germany-based Brazilian [autotag]Joilton Santos Lutterbach[/autotag] scored a quickfire finish as he stopped former BAMMA champion [autotag]Alex Lohore[/autotag] in just 27 seconds before taunting his still-stunned opponent in celebration.

Santos landed a left-hook, right-kick combination twice in a row before stunning Lohore with a third left hook that sent him to the canvas, where he followed up with a vicious salvo of ground strikes to seal the victory.

And, after such a clinical finish, the Brazilian may well find himself right at the front of the queue to face the reigning Cage Warriors 170-pound champion, Scotland’s Ross Houston.

Cage Warriors 111 main card results:

  • Nathias Frederick def. James Webb via TKO (punches and knees) – Round 4, 4:59
  • Modestas Bukauskas def. Riccardo Nosiglia via TKO (elbows) – Round 1, 3:31
  • Mads Burnell def. Steve Aimable via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
  • Joilton Santos Lutterbach def. Alex Lohore via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 0:30

At what point is taunting too much? Joilton Santos may have pushed the limit at Cage Warriors 111

How much taunting is too much? Joilton Santos may have pushed the limits at Friday’s Cage Warriors 111.

How much taunting is too much?

At Friday’s Cage Warriors 111, [autotag]Joilton Santos[/autotag] may have pushed the limits. The 27-year-old welterweight fighter took on [autotag]Alex Lohore[/autotag] on the main-card opener.

In the opening minute, Santos (31-8 MMA) tagged Lohore (18-5 MMA) with an overhand right. Lohore landed on all fours, where he was met with a series of follow-up shots by his Brazilian opponent. Referee Leon Roberts stopped the fight after seven or eight punches landed, but Santos decided to add insult to injury.

As Lohore staggered to his feet, the Germany-based Santos taunted his stunned foe. Santos signaled for Lohore to keep his mouth shut and made faces at the Englishman who was being held up by the referee.

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With the victory, Santos has won seven of his most recent eight outings. As for Lohore, the Englishman has now dropped two out of his last three fights.

Decide for yourself by watching the video below. Was Joilton Santos’ taunting over the top?

Cage Warriors 111 took place Friday, Nov. 22 at Indigo at the O2 in London. The card streamed on UFC Fight Pass.

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Joe Giannetti vs. Paddy Pimblett off Cage Warriors 111 after big weight miss

Joe Giannetti took this fight on short notice and came up way short in his attempt to reach 156 pounds.

[autotag]Paddy Pimblett[/autotag] will not be stepping into the cage on Friday after all.

The former Cage Warriors champion was scheduled to take on [autotag]Joe Giannetti[/autotag] in a lightweight bout at Cage Warriors 111 in London. The bout was scratched from the card after Giannetti missed weight Thursday, and Pimblett refused to accept the bout at a catchweight.

Pimblett (14-3) weighed in at 154.7 pounds; Giannetti (8-2-1) tipped the scale at 163.8, more than seven pounds above the limit.

Pimblett posted the news of the cancellation on social media, which the promotion later announced.

So what an eventful weigh in🤣I step on the scales at 154.7 like a true pro my opponent then steps on the scales at 163.8& then sits down& starts eating& drinking immediately didn’t even consider going in the sauna when if he wudda got to 160lbs all this cud have been avoided….

It looks like the fight is going to be off as he was unwilling to do any sort of compromise to make any sort of weight all the best to joe in the future but my career is too important to get (expletive) over like this but he’s known he was gonna miss& not batted an eyelid sorry ppl👍🏻

Giannetti took the fight on short notice, replacing injured Donovan Desmae with just a little bit over a week until fight night. “The Ultimate Fighter” veteran was looking to build on his Keenan Raymond win in September. Giannetti is 2-1-1 since leaving the UFC in 2018.

On the other hand, Pimblett was looking compete in MMA for the first time in 2019. The Liverpool native last fought in September 2018, losing to Soren Bak for the then-vacant Cage Warriors lightweight title.

Cage Warriors 11 will go down Friday and stream on UFC Fight Pass. Three title fights headline the card in James Webb vs. Nathias Frederick, Mads Burnell vs. Steve Aimable, and Modestas Bukauskas vs. Riccardo Nosiglia.

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Cage Warriors 111: Three titles on the line on stacked card in London

Three titles are on the line when the top European promotion returns to London on Friday for Cage Warriors 111.

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.

Mads Burnell (Dolly Clew / Cage Warriors)

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

Joe Giannetti steps up to face Paddy Pimblett at Cage Warriors 111 in London

Former ‘TUF’ prospect Joe Giannetti has agreed to step in on 10 days’ notice to take on former Cage Warriors featherweight champion Paddy Pimblett at Cage Warriors 111 in London.

Former UFC and “The Ultimate Fighter 27” athlete [autotag]Joe Giannetti[/autotag] is all set to step up and face one of Cage Warriors’ biggest stars on just 10 days’ notice at Cage Warriors 111.

Giannetti (8-2-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), who has competed three times already for the Boston-based Cage Titans promotion in 2019, has signed to face former Cage Warriors featherweight champion [autotag]Paddy Pimblett[/autotag] in a lightweight bout at the Indigo at The O2 on Friday, Nov. 22.

The fight will represent Giannetti’s third bout in five months as he looks to follow up on his first-round TKO finish of Keenan Raymond at Cage Titans 45 in August.

The 24-year-old impressed with his submission skills during the 27th season of “TUF,” as he claimed back-to-back first-round finishes of John Gunther and Allan Zuniga to earn a spot in the final, but he was defeated for the UFC contract by Mike Trizano. Now the Massachusetts native said he sees his upcoming fight with Pimblett as a potential springboard back into the UFC and a second chance in the octagon.

“This is a fight that international fight fans have wanted for a while,” Giannetti (8-2-1) said. “I’ve got a goal to get back into the UFC, Paddy’s got a goal to get to the UFC, so we’re going to find out who’s the other’s stepping stone.”

Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Pimblett (14-3) said he was grateful to Giannetti for agreeing to step up on short notice, but said that doing so was a bad career move for the American.

“Stepping in on 10 days’ notice, most people wouldn’t do it,” Pimblett admitted. “Considering everyone says they want to fight me, when the opportunity came up, they all went missing.

“I’m grateful to Joe for stepping up, but it’s a bad decision for him. I don’t think he’s been finished before, so this will be the first time he’s been finished in his career.”

Pimblett is looking to bounce back following his unanimous decision loss to Soren Bak at Cage Warriors 96 in September 2018, but his originally-scheduled opponent, Belgium’s Donovan Desmae, was forced off the upcoming card through injury.

It left the door open for Giannetti, who is heading to London looking to claim a big-name British scalp. And he had a word of warning for “The Baddy” ahead of their matchup next weekend.

“I hope he’s not expecting an easy night because I got the call last minute,” he said. “We bring a different type of energy in Boston.”

The event will be headlined by a trio of title fights, with James Webb, Mads Burnell and Modestas Bukauskas putting their middleweight, featherweight and light heavyweight titles on the line respectively.

Confirmed fights for Cage Warriors 111 include:

MAIN CARD

  • 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
  • Alex Lohore vs. Joilton Santos

PRELIMINARY CARD

  • Ayton de Paepe vs. Cory Tait
  • Mike Ekundayo vs. Luca Iovine
  • Harry Davies vs. Josh Onwordi
  • Adam Amarasinghe vs. Johan Segas
  • Matthew Bonner vs. Warren Kee
  • Jordan Barton vs. James Hendin
  • Scott Butters vs. Kingsley Crawford
  • Daryl Golding vs. Emrah Sonmez