Cage Contender (Featherweight)

mark.leonard

sonoflife wrote: »

Looks like im the underdog for the title....lol

Just the way we want it Ben

John Ferguson

Gary "The Dumptruck" Morris has been withdrawn for Cage Contender. We now require someone to replace him, we would much rather give this place to a top Irish featherweight than someone from overseas:)

Anyone interested contact me on: john@crew.ie

Cheers

John
Cage Contender, Clarion Hotel, Carrickfergus, 5 Feb 2010

smayhem

fightie wrote: »

Gary "The Dumptruck" Morris has been withdrawn for Cage Contender. We now require someone to replace him, wo would much rather give this place to a top Irish featherweight than someone from overseas:)

Anyone interested contact me on: john@crew.ie

Cheers

John
Cage Contender, Clarion Hotel, Carrickfergus, 5 Feb 2010

does Gary like to see his name on the interweb or what?? that must be the 3rd or 4th fight i have heard him pulling out of this year!! of course everyone has to pull out of a fight once or twice in there career but 3 or 4 in 1 year?? gary was very busy at the start of his career pity to see him slide away!!

Judomad

smayhem wrote: »

does Gary like to see his name on the interweb or what?? that must be the 3rd or 4th fight i have heard him pulling out of this year!! of course everyone has to pull out of a fight once or twice in there career but 3 or 4 in 1 year?? gary was very busy at the start of his career pity to see him slide away!!

I am far from sliding away, i have a job i need to keep in this recession, us fighters in ireland cant pay our bills from MMA purses, i had 10-12 pro fights last year and that wouldnt even start to dent my bills for the year...I apologise for not taking part in these fights, others were through injury(which happens while fighting and training so hard to fight) i dont feel as though i need to explain myself, just simply stating how it is.
I regret that i've pulled out of these fights but things need to be done and work has been that thing which has caused me to miss alot of training, i doubt i'd be doing my club, John and Mark(the promoters) and even myself any justice turning up to fight 3 tough highly rated FW's(or anyone for that mater) being unfit, out of practice and generally just not in a professional fighters condition they should be in...apologies all round from me

John Ferguson

Judomad wrote: »

I am far from sliding away, i have a job i need to keep in this recession, us fighters in ireland cant pay our bills from MMA purses, i had 10-12 pro fights last year and that wouldnt even start to dent my bills for the year...I apologise for not taking part in these fights, others were through injury(which happens while fighting and training so hard to fight) i dont feel as though i need to explain myself, just simply stating how it is.
I regret that i've pulled out of these fights but things need to be done and work has been that thing which has caused me to miss alot of training, i doubt i'd be doing my club, John and Mark(the promoters) and even myself any justice turning up to fight 3 tough highly rated FW's(or anyone for that mater) being unfit, out of practice and generally just not in a professional fighters condition they should be in...apologies all round from me

Thanks for clearing that up Gary, we totally understand why you were pulled out and you have no need whatsoever to explain yourself. We are looking forward to having you on a show or 2 in 2010

Thank you again

John & Mark

John Ferguson

We are offering VIP packages to Cage Contender(featherweights), 5th Feb 2010......

OFFER

Room for 2 people (Double or twin) in the Clarion Hotel on 5th Feb (Bed and Breakfast)

2 x Cageside seats for the event

Aftershow party passes

ONLY £120 (£60 each)

To purchase this offer email me to john@crew.ie and i will send you paypal details. If you are purchasing as a pressie we can email a gift cert so that you have it for Xmas.....

Chewabacca

wayne1 wrote: »

ok i put the 3 champions in

Tim Murphy (TW Champion)
Mick Leonard (EFR Champion)
Kevin Carney (Spartan Champion)
and i put( paul cowser )
i think that be a great show

I'd buy that as a PPV:).

We can only dream of this, hopefully all these guys will meet each other in the cage/ring sooner or later.

Carney and Cowzer already had a cracking fight, I'd love to see another.

Is anyone else astonished that Carney can make FW? The guys is massive for the division.

Martin Walker

Chewabacca wrote: »

Is anyone else astonished that Carney can make FW? The guys is massive for the division.

And he used to cut to Bantamweight!!
Although the last time he done it he developed a phobia of the sauna. So its FW for him until i can persuade him to strip to Bantam again.

John Ferguson

Four man tournament press release:

http://www.fight.ie/News/Ireland/index.html

John
Cage Contender, 5 Feb 2010, Clarion Hotel, Carrickfergus

mark.leonard

Ferguson continued "I know its hard to believe that we have trouble getting the four top guys in a weight divison together at the same time. But thats just how it is. Of course we would prefer to have the Cage Contender tournaments fought out between the cream of Irish talent but up to now that just hasnt been possible for a host of reasons."

Why is it so hard to believe?
With so many shows on these days its getting harder by the minute to fill an under card let alone a pro main event requiring fighters to fight twice in one night.

juijitsu black

Judomad wrote: »

I am far from sliding away, i have a job i need to keep in this recession, us fighters in ireland cant pay our bills from MMA purses, i had 10-12 pro fights last year and that wouldnt even start to dent my bills for the year...I apologise for not taking part in these fights, others were through injury(which happens while fighting and training so hard to fight) i dont feel as though i need to explain myself, just simply stating how it is.

Totaly agree with barry. These things happen and its nobodys fault.

I have trained in many clubs over the years, and alot off guys will put on gloves and bang away at 75% and most of the time someone will get hurt. Why dosent everyone put on shin pads, head gear and 16oz gloves and then bang at 60 - 80% it dosent mean your a pussy... Just Smart!!:cool:

John Ferguson

mark.leonard wrote: »

Why is it so hard to believe?
With so many shows on these days its getting harder by the minute to fill an under card let alone a pro main event requiring fighters to fight twice in one night.

True there are lots of shows now:). It is hard to believe in my opinion because for a fighter to be the best he must beat the best, and this concept provides a platform for that to happen!!! And agreed the winner must fight twice but thats why we set the rounds at 3x3 mins

John

Marty Mc

fightie wrote: »

True there are lots of shows now:). It is hard to believe in my opinion because for a fighter to be the best he must beat the best, and this concept provides a platform for that to happen!!! And agreed the winner must fight twice but thats why we set the rounds at 3x3 mins

John

There are alot of excellent feather weight competitors out there and your quote of 'to be the best he must beat the best' is slightly short sighted imvho. Some of the mma competitors in ireland have been competing for quite some time..some of them for the best part of 10 years infact and have fought one another in the past.

I credit u with a great idea..a great card and one that i would like to watch but i would imagine that there are many factors that could be at play here in accounting for not taking to 'the platform' that u provide..
for example - format of fighting twice may not suit some, family/work life in the way, cant get the training in, team mates in the same comp..etc..

David Patterson at EFR had been running these type of tournaments at his show at toombridge..i saw my first, maybe 4 or 5 years ago so its not a new idea. Great viewing tho..Paul cowzer and fergus fight springs to mind..what a war!!

John Ferguson

We have added a few more mouthwatering matchups to the bill!!!!!!!!!

Norman Parke (EFR) 8-1-0 vs Myles Pryce (KTP) 7-1-0

Amanda English (IP) vs Aishing McLarnon (Evolve)

the rest of the card will be confirmed this coming week!!!

wingnut4

great card, looking forward to this, glad to see aisling got a fight!

UFR Management

Norman Parke is up to 8-1-0 now, he'll be fighting again in finland at the start of april against a member of Fedor Emelianenko's team

John Ferguson

Fight Card now updated now at fight.ie

John Ferguson

FEATHERWEIGHT TOURNAMENT
· Ben "Son of Life" Davis (Point Blank)
· Sebastian Torres (Dog Pound)
· Sam Rohani (Lopez)
· Kevin "Bam Bam" McAlonan (EFR)

Undercard

Welterweight Professional (3x5)

Myles Price (KTP) vs Norman Parke (EFR)


Lightweight Professional (3x5)

Johnny McGillion(SFT) v Noel Duggan(PCCB)


Heavyweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Robert McTrusty(BCMMA) v Sean Crowe(PCCB)

Andy Thompson(NEXTGEN) v Bill Hunter(CHUM SUT)


Middleweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Paul Moore(JRJJC) v Hugh Minnock(WARRIORS)


Welterweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Sean Pagel(JRJJC) v Ciaran Gillen(KYOUJIN)

Samuel Keatinge(MSF) v Thomas Crosse(WARRIORS)


Featherweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Joe Clarke(PCCB) v Brendan McGarry(KTP)

Andrew Falconer(JRJJC) v Eugene McAuley(SFT)

Andy Ferris(CHUM SUT) v Sean Duffy(RUSH)

Alan Philpott(IMMA) v TBC(TBC)



Bantamweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Neil Ward(RUSH) v Caoimhine Murtagh(PHK)


Flyweight Teens Semi-Pro (3x3)

Ronnie Brennan(SFT) v Josh Peoples(JRJJC)

Adam Caffrey(RUSH) v Ryan Doherty(SFT)


Female Lightweight

Aisling McLarnon (Evolve) vs Amanda English (IP)

John Ferguson

Just to let you all know the officals at Cage Contender will be:


Officals
Peter Lavery (Kyoujin)
David Jones (Next Gen)
Aiden Marron (EFR)
John Kavanagh (SBGi)

MC

Andy "Sledge" Laverty

Martin Walker

Sorry i cant judge for you John.
Was really looking forward to the tourney but hey if i have to go snowboarding what can i do??:rolleyes:

John Ferguson

Martin Walker wrote: »

Sorry i cant judge for you John.
Was really looking forward to the tourney but hey if i have to go snowboarding what can i do??:rolleyes:

No worries dude!!!! I'm sure you'll enjoy your time on the piss!! Oops sorry I mean piste:P

John Ferguson

We have had a few pull outs from the show due to illness and injury.

Out

Sean Pagel (Broken foot)
Noel Duggan (Flu)
Ben Davis (Chest Infection)

In

Stevie Killfin(PCCB) will replace Duggan

Alan Philpott(IMMA) vs Davin Corrigan(SFT)

Read the latest news HERE

Jason Mc

fightie wrote: »

Out

Ben Davis (Chest Infection)

In

I was looking forward to hopefully seeing Kevin versus Ben

McManus

fightie wrote: »

We have had a few pull outs from the show due to illness and injury.

Out

Sean Pagel (Broken foot)
Noel Duggan (Flu)
Ben Davis (Chest Infection)

In

Stevie Killfin(PCCB) will replace Duggan

Alan Philpott(IMMA) vs Davin Carlin(SFT)

Read the latest news HERE

It should be Davin Corrigan, this is a rematch! Davin won the first fight!!

John Ferguson

McManus wrote: »

It should be Davin Corrigan, this is a rematch! Davin won the first fight!!

Couldn't read my own writing..... fixed now sorry Davin

John Ferguson

FEATHERWEIGHT TOURNAMENT
· TBC
· Sebastian Torres (Elite/Dog Pound)
· Sam Rohani (Lopez)
· Kevin "Bam Bam" McAlonan (EFR)

Undercard

Welterweight Professional (3x5)

Myles Price (KTP) vs Norman Parke (EFR)


Lightweight Professional (3x5)

Johnny McGillion(SFT) v Steve Killfin(PCCB)


Heavyweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Robert McTrusty(BCMMA) v Sean Crowe(PCCB)

Andy Thompson(NEXTGEN) v Bill Hunter(CHUM SUT)


Middleweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Paul Moore(JRJJC) v Hugh Minnock(WARRIORS)


Welterweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

TBC v Ciaran Gillen(KYOUJIN)

Samuel Keatinge(MSF) v Thomas Crosse(WARRIORS)


Featherweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Joe Clarke(PCCB) v Brendan McGarry(KTP)

Andrew Falconer(JRJJC) v Eugene McAuley(SFT)

Andy Ferris(CHUM SUT) v Sean Duffy(RUSH)


Bantamweight Semi-Pro (3x3)

Neil Ward(RUSH) v Caoimhine Murtagh(PHK)

Alan Philpott(IMMA) v Davin Corrigan(SFT)


Flyweight Teens Semi-Pro (3x3)

Ronnie Brennan(SFT) v Josh Peoples(JRJJC)

Adam Caffrey(RUSH) v Ryan Doherty(SFT)


Female Lightweight

Aisling McLarnon (Evolve) vs Amanda English (IP)


We will fill in the blanks as we get the information!!!!

John Ferguson

Officals

Mr Peter Lavery
Peter Lavery is one of the most highly respected figures in Irish MMA, from competing to judging to refereeing, Peter has done it all. Peter is a highly decorated martial artist with a 1st degree black belt in Kempo Jiu Jitsu, 2nd degree black in Tai jutsu kai and a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Mr David Jones
David started his martial arts career at age 6 in Wado Ryu Karate achieving 2nd Dan on his 19th Birthday. During college he trained in Aikido, Wing Chun, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu and Kickboxing. David fought on the first Cage Show “Cage Wars” held in the UK in 2001 in Portsmouth, he has also fought on shows such as UFN, XFUK, UFR and Cage Challenge.

Mr Aidan Marron
Without doubt one of the most sought after and respected officials on the Irish MMA circuit. Known as a tough but fair ref Aidan will keep things in order when required, but also let the action flow!!

Mr John Kavanagh
From the SBG Ireland gym John is one of the founding fathers or Irish MMA. And Irelands only BJJ Black Belt


MASTER OF CEREMONIES

Andy ‘Sledge’ Laverty
In the last 10 years MMA has become a major part of his life. He began training Thai Boxing and Brazilian Jui Jitsu at the Tokei Academy in London Bridge under Ronaldo Camposs (a student of Ze Marcallo) and never looked back. He has trained with some of the best including Chuck Liddell, Frank Shamrock, Paul Daley, Robbie Olivier and Lee Doski.

Sledge started his MC career on 27th July 2003 in the Cage Warriors 4 show in Portsmouth and this has snowballed into a “hobby” that takes up 30 weekends a year. He has worked for Cage Rage, Angrrr Management, Ultimate Force, FX3, Cage Warriors, FCFN, AMMA, ZT Fight Night and Cage Rage Contenders among others.


MEDICAL STAFF

2 Ambulance crew will be in attendance to provide any emergency medical care that may be required to the fighters and any attending spectators.


OTHER INFORMATION


WEIGH IN

The weigh in for all fighters will now take place at 19:00 on the 4th Feb 2010 in the Clarion Hotel,Carrickfergus.

UNDERCARD WEIGH IN
Some undercard fighters will weigh in at their own clubs prior to 19:00 on the 4th Feb 2010, this will be videoed and provided to the officials for verification.


AFTER PARTY

The after-show party including a live band will begin at 11:00pm in the Clarion Hotels BAR 75.

The Hotel will also do a discounted room rate for any ticket holders wanting to stay

Killme00

fightie wrote: »

The after-show party including a live band will begin at 11:00pm in the Clarion Hotels BAR 75.

The Hotel will also do a discounted room rate for any ticket holders wanting to stay

Please ensure they have sufficient levels of Jagermeister and Red Bull

John Ferguson

Killme00 wrote: »

Please ensure they have sufficient levels of Jagermeister and Red Bull

Bring it on !!!!

Roper

Price vs. Parkes

veeeerrryy interesting.

John Ferguson

Roper wrote: »

Price vs. Parkes

veeeerrryy interesting.

As one of the Cage Contender DVD commentators how would you call this one Barry??

Anyone else got any views on any of the match ups?????

sonoflife

Jason Mc wrote: »

I was looking forward to hopefully seeing Kevin versus Ben

I really wanted to fight in this show and i tried training through a bad chest infection over xmas an newyear but training was making me worse...Im really annoyed that i had to pull out as ive never pulled out of a fight before!...But i know its the best thing to do!...Ide gladly fight the winner in the near future!...Best of luck with the show!...Fight Hard!...Bless!

John Ferguson

sonoflife wrote: »

Ide gladly fight the winner in the near future!..

Get Mark to get in touch with me and lets look at getting it on!!!!:cool:

John Ferguson

The lineup for the 4 man tournament has changed again!!!!!

Click HERE for details

cowzerp

Pity Mcalonan is out but Carney is a tough dude and an entertaining fighter so its not a bad replacement at all.

Hopefully you find a 4th fighter who could jump into the action..

Jason Mc

fightie wrote: »

Click HERE for details

GASP.....

cowzerp

markfightie wrote: »

Right paul, down to the local butchers tell him to knock of 10 kilos (or 30 ) and youll be ready to show these guys who the boss man is!

I'd love too tbh but would never make weight and would not be fight fit like these lads, By the way Mark, less of the 30!!!!

bjj-fighter

What are the rules for the Semi-pro teens? And what age are they?

cowzerp

bjj-fighter wrote: »

What are the rules for the Semi-pro teens? And what age are they?

Semi pro minus the Knee's to the head in the fight involving my lad, and there 15

i dont know about the other teen fights as i stipultaed that myself.

bjj-fighter

cowzerp wrote: »

Semi pro minus the Knee's to the head in the fight involving my lad, and there 15

i dont know about the other teen fights as i stipultaed that myself.

Alright cheers. So all other strikes to the head while standing? I would've thought 15 would be too young. But Im pretty jealous ha

cowzerp

bjj-fighter wrote: »

Alright cheers. So all other strikes to the head while standing? I would've thought 15 would be too young. But Im pretty jealous ha

well at 11 ya can box and Kickbox so its no big deal really..
nothing ya cant do in them sports..

If ya wanted to fight you should ask your coach as a lot of shows are putting on 1-2 teen fights these days. he might say no but you never know.

bjj-fighter

cowzerp wrote: »

well at 11 ya can box and Kickbox so its no big deal really..
nothing ya cant do in them sports..

If ya wanted to fight you should ask your coach as a lot of shows are putting on 1-2 teen fights these days. he might say no but you never know.

Yeah,Im not disagreeing,I just didn't think that 15year olds could fight semi pro,its cool alright.

Yeah I'll see about fighting on some shows...its completly up to my coach so whatever he thinks

Jason Mc

cowzerp wrote: »

well at 11 ya can box and Kickbox so its no big deal really..
nothing ya cant do in them sports..
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The main differnce is they wear head guards and bigger gloves.

We haven't had under 16s fight at our show with head shots. Wondering what is the general concensus among other shows out there?

mark.leonard

Jason Mc wrote: »

cowzerp wrote: »

well at 11 ya can box and Kickbox so its no big deal really..
nothing ya cant do in them sports..

The main differnce is they wear head guards and bigger gloves.

We haven't had under 16s fight at our show with head shots. Wondering what is the general concensus among other shows out there?

I have been tempted to put teens in C class matches in TW, but I have decided against each time, simply because I don't think fans want to see a kid of a tender age get KO'ed. Just my two cents

cowzerp

mark.leonard wrote: »

I have been tempted to put teens in C class matches in TW, but I have decided against each time, simply because I don't think fans want to see a kid of a tender age get KO'ed. Just my two cents

Mark-
Well with no knee's to the head its really D class, as i said i dont know if the other fights have knee's or not with teens.


jason-
Headguards change nothing imo and most boxers i know who boxed before they where mandatory did not notice any difference, if anything it gives more target to hit, the gloves do make a difference for sure.

the main advantage is they stop cuts and im all for using more vaseline on the face to prevent cuts as it does not affect anything else if aplied only to the right areas and not blobbed on.

Jason Mc

Yeah at the moment we side away from them.

I'm not entirely sold on the u16s not taking head shots as I realise its only a small part of the game and they do get hit to head in other sports.

I suppose we have to be a little more cautious with the publics perception of what we do and thats why we haven't.

Anyone know what the score is with shows in Europe or the states?

Sid_Justice

Is this off topic? Apologies if it is. Just a question for you Cowzer, have those lads fought at D class before? A few times? Or are they making debuts at C class?

John Ferguson

Less than 2 weeks to go!!!!!!

There are still a few tickets knocking around with the fighters so if you haven't got a ticket yet see the fighters asap!!!!!!!!

DOORS: 7pm

FIRST FIGHT: 7:30pm SHARP!!!!!!

Running order will be announced early next week

cowzerp

Sid_Justice wrote: »

Is this off topic? Apologies if it is. Just a question for you Cowzer, have those lads fought at D class before? A few times? Or are they making debuts at C class?

Never fought D class but they train to fight the way there going to fight so D class would be more foreign to them, I'm assuming you mean E class no head strikes though, as there more or less fighting D class.

Hope that helps, Looking forward to the show now..

John Ferguson

Eamon Laverty from EFR has stepped in as a late replacement to fight against Sebastian Torres after the very late withdrawl of Kevin Carney from Antrim MMA due to a chest infection. The Cage Contender fightcard has been .................MORE