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THE CAGE CONTENDER AWARDS 2012

John Ferguson · 2011-10-22 07:32:10

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to announce that on 14th Jan 2012 we will be holding the CAGE CONTENDER AWARDS! The event will consist of Dinner & Awards Ceremony followed by a live band. And it's all FREE! Every fighter who fought on CC in 2011 will be receiving a ticket plus a guest ticket, on top of that every club…

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to announce that on 14th Jan 2012 we will be holding the CAGE CONTENDER AWARDS!

The event will consist of Dinner & Awards Ceremony followed by a live band. And it's all FREE! Every fighter who fought on CC in 2011 will be receiving a ticket plus a guest ticket, on top of that every club that had fighters on CC will receive 3 tickets too.

The nominations in each catagorey will be announced in due course and the winners will be chosen by the Cage Contender panel. The panel is John Ferguson, Dave Jones, Peter Lavery, Barry Oglesby, Stuart McQuitty and Bret "Hollywood" Freeman. There will be one public vote award and a fighters fighter of the year which will be done by ballot on the night.

This is a small way for us to say thank you for your continued support and get everyone together from a nights craic without the usual pressure of an event

Further details will follow this week!!

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#2 22-10-2011 12:21pm

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How about one of the categories being voted for by us here on the MMA forum? Maybe just 33% if the vote for that category coming from here with 1 of the voters winning a pair of tickets?

Just an idea

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#3 22-10-2011 12:31pm

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scudzilla wrote: »

How about one of the categories being voted for by us here on the MMA forum? Maybe just 33% if the vote for that category coming from here with 1 of the voters winning a pair of tickets?

Just an idea

There will be a Boards.ie featured award just like last year! We will announce it with the others.

It's funny how things happen, I invited boards.ie to do an award last year at the Fight.ie awards and boards founder/director Tom Murphy (DeVore) and site manager Dev came along to present it. One year on Tom is now the second largest share holder in Ferguson Sports Group

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#4 24-10-2011 10:40pm

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The Catagories for the 2012 Cage Contender Awards are:

Knock Out of the Year

Submission of the Year

Fight of the Year

Fighter of the Year

Break through fighter of the Year

Fighters Vote: Fighter of the Year

Cage Contender Personality of 2011

Team of 2011

Performance of the Year

Boards.ie post of the year (from all CC threads)

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#5 24-10-2011 11:36pm

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John Ferguson wrote: »

The Catagories for the 2012 Cage Contender Awards are:
Boards.ie post of the year (from all CC threads)

MMAIRELANDFAN wrote: »

Muay Thai is like low class Kyokushin

1st entry :-)

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#6 25-10-2011 9:38am

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themandan6611 wrote: »

1st entry :-)

Cheers

Just a quick note guys: When your nominating a post for award, please ad the thread name and page number to make life easy!!

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#7 25-10-2011 9:48am

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Just for the sake of clarity, is the breakthrough fighter of the year reserved for Pro fighters or are C-class fighters included.

There have been some impressive performances by a few amateur guys and I'm looking forward to seeing them turn pro. Karl Moore, Peter Quelly and Alan Cocoran spring to mind.

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#8 22-11-2011 8:24am

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Shazbot wrote: »

Just for the sake of clarity, is the breakthrough fighter of the year reserved for Pro fighters or are C-class fighters included.

There have been some impressive performances by a few amateur guys and I'm looking forward to seeing them turn pro. Karl Moore, Peter Quelly and Alan Cocoran spring to mind.

Good point

Break through fighter of the year is for any fighter who has made their CC debut that year regardless of being Pro (A Class) Semi Pro (B Class) or Am (C Class)

We have added an additional award to cover non pro fighters. Full catagories and nominations are due out on Thursday of this week.

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#9 23-11-2011 3:15pm

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Are the awards a black tie event, if so i could provide all guests with an excellent rate on tux rental

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#10 25-11-2011 12:36pm

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KO of the Year:

1. Damien Rooney (v Mark Connor - CC9)
2. Ben Davis (v Tomas Murnakas – CC8)
3. Rich Gorey (v Kieran Davern – CC10)
4. JMS (v John Redmond – CC8)
5. Karl Moore (v Jan Pinczura – CC9)

Submission of the Year:

1. Artemij Sitenkov (v Rob McCrum – CC11)
2. Chris Fields (v John Redmond – CC10)
3. Dec Larkin (v Alan Duffy – CC9)
4. Greg Loughran (v Martin Begley – CC11)
5. Owen Roddy (v Ben Davis – CC10)

Fight of the Year

1. Robinson v Wain (CC11)
2. Holohan v McCombe (CC8)
3. Dos Santos v O Driscoll (CC9)
4. Philpott v Young (CC11)
5. Fields v Chadwick (CC9)

Pro Fighter of the Year

1. Chris Fields
2. Owen Roddy
3. Norman Parke
4. Rich Gorey
5. Stephen Coll

Breakthrough Fighter of the Year

1. Conor McGregor
2. Stephen Coll
3. Artem Lobov
4. Conor Cooke
5. Joe McColgan

Semi Pro Fighter of the Year

1. Peter Queally
2. Blaine O Driscoll
3. Richie Edgeworth
4. Karl Moore
5. Arnod Dos Santos

Personality of the Year

1. Greg Loughran
2. Barry Oglesby
3. Bret Freeman
4. JMS
5. Stuart McQuitty

Team of 2011

1. Rillion Gracie Ireland
2. SBGi
3. Next Gen NI (IMMA Fight Team)
4. Fight Academy Ireland
5. Lucan MMA

Performance of the Year

1. Phillip Mulpeter (v Sebastian Torres – CC10)
2. Chris Fields (v Lee Chadwick – CC9)
3. Norman Parke (v Marcos Nardini – CC11)
4. Greg Loughran (v Martin Begley)
5. Owen Roddy (v Ben Davis – CC10)

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#11 25-11-2011 12:43pm

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John Ferguson wrote: »

KO of the Year:

1. Damien Rooney (v Mark Connor - CC9)
2. Ben Davis (v Tomas Murnakas – CC8)
3. Rich Gorey (v Kieran Davern – CC10)
4. JMS (v John Redmond – CC8)
5. Karl Moore (v Jan Pinczura – CC9)

Submission of the Year:

1. Artemij Sitenkov (v Rob McCrum – CC11)
2. Chris Fields (v John Redmond – CC10)
3. Dec Larkin (v Alan Duffy – CC9)
4. Greg Loughran (v Martin Begley – CC11)
5. Owen Roddy (v Ben Davis – CC10)

Fight of the Year

1. Robinson v Wain (CC11)
2. Holohan v McCombe (CC8)
3. Dos Santos v O Driscoll (CC9)
4. Philpott v Young (CC11)
5. Fields v Chadwick (CC9)

Pro Fighter of the Year

1. Chris Fields
2. Owen Roddy
3. Norman Parke
4. Rich Gorey
5. Stephen Coll

Breakthrough Fighter of the Year

1. Conor McGregor
2. Stephen Coll
3. Artem Lobov
4. Conor Cooke
5. Joe McColgan

Semi Pro Fighter of the Year

1. Peter Queally
2. Blaine O Driscoll
3. Richie Edgeworth
4. Karl Moore
5. Arnod Dos Santos

Personality of the Year

1. Greg Loughran
2. Barry Oglesby
3. Bret Freeman
4. JMS
5. Stuart McQuitty

Team of 2011

1. Rillion Gracie Ireland
2. SBGi
3. Next Gen NI (IMMA Fight Team)
4. Fight Academy Ireland
5. Lucan MMA

Performance of the Year

1. Phillip Mulpeter (v Sebastian Torres – CC10)
2. Chris Fields (v Lee Chadwick – CC9)
3. Norman Parke (v Marcos Nardini – CC11)
4. Greg Loughran (v Martin Begley)
5. Owen Roddy (v Ben Davis – CC10)

You should put videos up of all these fights so people can see them.....;)

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#12 25-11-2011 12:52pm

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Martin Walker wrote: »

You should put videos up of all these fights so people can see them.....;)

Not a bad idea is that possible - wanna stick 'em on fightireland :P

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#13 25-11-2011 12:52pm

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Martin Walker wrote: »

You should put videos up of all these fights so people can see them.....;)

Not a bad idea is that possible - wanna stick 'em on fightireland? :P

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#14 02-12-2011 12:46am

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fightireland wrote: »

Not a bad idea is that possible - wanna stick 'em on fightireland? :P

Good Idea

Maybe we should get you as a sponsor too

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#15 23-12-2011 9:07pm

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Formal invites are going out over the Xmas hols. Remember any fighter who has fought on CC in 2011 is welcome plus a guest and each club can bring 2 coaches plus 2 guests also.

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#16 24-12-2011 1:21am

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Where are the awards being held John?.

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#17 24-12-2011 5:00pm

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Waylon Nice Sewer wrote: »

Where are the awards being held John?.

Balmoral Hotel
Blacks Rd
Belfast

For anyone wanting to stay they are doing a deal of £50 per room (sleeps 2) inc breakfast.

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#18 09-01-2012 9:07am

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Guys keep in mind the CC Awards are this coming weekend!!

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#19 14-01-2012 7:36am

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Due to pull outs I have some spare seats for tonight (16 seats left from 240). If any CCFans want to come tonight with some friends feel free to drop me a line.

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#20 15-01-2012 2:23pm

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Any results?

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#21 15-01-2012 7:30pm

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Plastikman_eire wrote: »

Any results?

Bret Freeman tweeted them: Link

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#22 16-01-2012 1:20am

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That's a nice segway for an interview the man himself, MMA announcer Bret "Hollywood" Freeman from last night at the Cage Contender awards!

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITS GO TIME!"

In the interview he talks Irish MMA, Alex Reid and his favourite fights and fighters

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#23 16-01-2012 10:52am

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1st of severemma I removed your link which is spam, use this thread if want to post your links to your site.

On a side note I don't really see much relevance in interviewing an mc anyway, they call out names and interview fighters-could be a bingo caller as far as relevance goes.

Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.

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#24 16-01-2012 2:49pm

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cowzerp wrote: »

1st of severemma I removed your link which is spam, use this thread if want to post your links to your site.

On a side note I don't really see much relevance in interviewing an mc anyway, they call out names and interview fighters-could be a bingo caller as far as relevance goes.

Paul

Just to clarify, if they embed the YouTube player of the interviews into the thread and boards users don't have to leave the forum to watch it am I correct in saying is it no longer spam?

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#25 16-01-2012 4:49pm

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John Ferguson wrote: »

Paul

Just to clarify, if they embed the YouTube player of the interviews into the thread and boards users don't have to leave the forum to watch it am I correct in saying is it no longer spam?

spot on John, directing traffic to there own site is very different than trying to show us a video on here.

Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.

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#26 19-01-2012 10:07pm

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themandan6611 wrote: »

1st entry :-)

hi sounds good ..eddie m.. midlands mma.

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