CWC news

Everlast come out punching for Cage Wars.

Everlast have announced today that they are now the official MMA glove for premier UK MMA promotion Cage Wars.

The new Everlast MMA glove will be the only glove sanctioned and used by all fighters in the upcoming Cage Wars - Decade event, in the world famous Kings Hall

in Belfast Northern Ireland.

Cage Wars VP of Operations’ Jonny Burrows said “we are delighted to be the first UK promotion to be working with Everlast. As you know the quality and brand name of Everlast is second to none and it says a lot that they have chosen to work with us. Fighter safety is a priority for everyone at Cage Wars and that starts with the right equipment. The Everlast competition MMA glove is setting the standard for us. We look forward to working with Everlast on many of our upcoming events.

February 2009

DANCE STAR DJ SETS THE BEAT FOR CAGE WARS.

Robbie Nelson has created the brand new soundtrack for Cage Wars Championship. In an unprecedented move in music style the MMA Promotion CWC have moved away from the more common grunge metal sounds that normally accompany the fighters on their entrance and also the title themes for the televised live events.

‘ What we have noticed when producing the live events is that most of the young fighters prefer to listen to dance, hip hop and house music when they are back stage or hooked up to their i-pods. The imagery that is used in most MMA promotions is very aggressive and yet most of the fighters and fans of the sport are mild mannered and well educated. So our move into a cleaner dance sound track and imagery is in answer to our fans and fighters demands” said Patrick Mooney creative control director of CWC.

At CWC we have decided to move in a more positive direction that is in tune with our demographic and we also want to send the message that the sport is a positive influence on young peoples lives giving them focus and discipline. MMA is a combat sport of skill and intelligence and our live events are inspiring and uplifting, this is what Robbie brings to the whole experience, he has created a sound track to the life of the modern and determined athlete that competes in MMA.

” In Sept last year myself Chris Agnelli and Carl Cox were part of history when we played at the first ever Night time Formula 1 race in Singapore it was one of those one of lifetime experiences as I have been a fan of F1 for many years and our music suited the speed of the cars and the whole F1 circus. For me CWC is the new F1 of sport as the fighters, like the cars, are highly tuned and fast and furious but operate in a controlled manner. Thats why its been a real buzz for me getting involved with CWC and its a perfect match for dance music to create an uplifting atmosphere for a truly exciting sport.

Robbie Nelson debuted his brand new mixes at the CWC event at the Kings Hall on Sunday March 29th and will continue to work with CWC on future events. For more on Robbie, click here.

March 2009.

FightZone TV Adds European Flavour By Partnering With Cage Wars Championship UK.

FightZone TV, in their third year of nationally broadcasting the Best of Independent MMA Programming from around the country, will now have to change that to "Around the World" as Cage Wars Championship and FightZone TV have linked across the Atlantic to deliver premium European MMA to the US audience.

“ We are delighted to become part of the FightZone Family," said Patrick Mooney, Creative Operational Officer for CWC.

"FightZone has been building the sport of MMA at a grass roots level for some time now and all their hard work has moved them into over 20 million US homes multiple times weekly.

This is the first time the CWC brand have given their live event to a TV network in the USA and we could not be happier.

The CWC brand is now one of the leading native European Cage MMA events and continues to grow the sport of MMA throughout the UK and Europe.

Having FightZone as our US partner is the perfect way to continue our quest to deliver quality European MMA product to the fans in the US. This is an historical day for European MMA and all the young talent that has yet to be seen in America. CWC puts the sport first and that is why we fit well with FightZone.” We look forward to a long and productive relationship with FightZone TV.”

FightZone co-owner Al Martino states, " We could not be more thrilled to bring our MMA fans something new. Every since my partner Jay Adams and I started this venture in 2007, we have been fortunate enough to work with some of the finest MMA promoters in the country and their hard work in always delivering a superior product is a big part of our success and demand. Adding Cage Wars to our growing family of MMA partners such as RFC, UWC, XFA, WFC, Mainstream, RCC, Pure Combat and many others will only strengthen our new goal of bringing the Best MMA fights and Interviews from around the World to our audience. Plus we're looking forward to FightZone Co Owner and Commentator Extraordinaire, Jay Adams, learning another language - English. Fresh off of the incredible exposure of hosting 3 straight events streamed live on Sherdog, he can't wait to work the next live Cage Wars events.”

This year Cage Wars Championship will deliver 5 events from their live catalog and all the upcoming events for 2009. The first 5 events will feature top European and International talent such as Sami Schiavo (France), Colin Robinson (Ireland), Jason Jones (Holland), James Head (USA), Augusto Frota (Brazil), Vincent Latoel (Holland), Tommi Ninimakki (Finland), Bogdan Cristea (Croatia), Michael Kita (Poland), Heman Gipson (USA), Paul McVeigh (UK), Peter Duncan (UK), Colin McKee (N. Ireland), Jimmy Mills (USA), Daniel Tabera (Spain), Tim Estes (USA), Thomas Ahrens (USA), Danny Ver Bergen (Holland), Jeff Monson (USA), Dan Severn (USA), JC Pennington (USA), Arno Rotgans (Holland), Bryan Goldsby (USA), Casimir Bendy (France), Reuben Vasquez (Spain), Thomas Karlsson (Finland), Ivan Mussardo (Italy), Cristian Binda (Italy), Marcello Lopez (Switzerland), Luis Wagner (Brazil), Michael Angelista (Holland), Moen Takalou (Holland), Sergej Maslobojev (Lithuania), Aurelius Kerpe (Lithuania), James Orso (USA), Jonatas Novaes (Brazil) and many others.

Next up in June will be Cage Wars "Decade."

April 2009.

The Dragon gets ready for the fight of his life!

Lee McKibbin will be taking a big step up in class when he faces his next opponent in CWC. “I am really excited about this fight, unfortunately I can’t say anything about the match just yet but it is going to be good one and I can’t wait.”

“I have been looking for something to push me to train harder to get to the next level and when the team at CWC put this is front of me, I jumped at it without hesitation. I can promise it will be a war and definitely one for the fans”

CWC will be announcing the date of their next event along with some excellent match ups in the coming weeks. This promises to be the best CWC fight event yet!

March 2009.

FIGHT CARD

TAPOUT SPORTS NUTRITION join the Cage Wars team as a sponsor for the upcoming event in Belfast on November 29th. TAPOUT which is a global brand and synonymous with MMA has moved into high quality sport nutrition with a full line of top level products. Cage Wars are delighted to have such an exceptional brand on board for this show. You can get all the new Tapout products at www.tapout.com today.

October 2009

DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR sponsor Cage Wars fighter Chris “MENACE TO SOCIETY” Stringer. DBD have some excellent designs said Stringer and I will be looking even more cool that I usually do when I make my way to the cage in their finest product. Check out their website at www.deathbeforedishonour.co.uk.

October 2009

CWC no "Nightmare" for fans at King's Hall, Belfast

BY BRIAN ELLIOTT

Rich "No Love" Clementi (73kg, USA) proved to be a little too much for 23-year-old Chris "Menace 2 Society" Stringer (71.7kg, Northern Ireland) in the main event of Cage Wars Champions

hip's "Nightmare" event, held at the King's Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Clementi - the UFC veteran who has beaten the likes of UFC 106 semi-event fighter Anthony Johnson - found it tough to connect with an elusive Stringer in the first round, but when he took the contest to the mat in the second, it was his fight for the taking, and Stringer was forced to tap out to a triangle choke in 3:11 of the second round. "I'm just so happy to be fighting in Ireland," said Clementi. "This is my fifth time out here, and I've finally got to fight. Chris stepped up a month ago(after Peter Duncan was injured), so that took balls. My hat's off to him. "The ground game is my world, when I get on top that's when I win fights. But it was a tough fight, and he's a tough kid."

Colin "The Gift" McKee's (78.9kg, Northern Ireland) uncompromising style proved to be too much for Neydson Santos Ferreira (74kg, Brazil), in what was the first of the night's three feature attractions. Santos - a Brazilian ju-jitsu expert who was a late replacement for the injured Che Mills - was never able to utilise his ground skills, with McKee trapping him against the cage and delivering some big punches before the referee called a stop to the contest at 3:04 of the first round.

The win by Daniel "Denzil" Thomas (70.4kg, Wales) over Duane van Helvoirt (68.9kg, Holland) was one of technique following attrition, finally getting the guillotine choke in 2:34 of the second round. Prior to that, Thomas had worn down his opponent on the ground, enabling him to get a lightning-quick finish in the end.

Jordy Puete (62.5kg, Holland) may have taken five minutes to find his rhythm against Neil Seery (60.7kg, Republic of Ireland), but it took him only 17 seconds of the second round to roll his opponent into a kneebar for the immediate tap-out. Up until then, it had been Seery who was relentless with his ground-and-pound, clearly taking the first round in doing so.

In an extraordinary result, Lee "The Dragon" McKibbin (84.5kg, Northern Ireland) took just 45 seconds to dismiss of veteran John "The Machine" Lober (82.7kg, USA) via submission. The manner of the tap-out was the most surprising of all, a standing guillotine choke which can rarely be applied with enough torque to force a submission.

"It's unbelievable," said McKibbin of the win. "My respect to John Lober, he's an amazing fighter. He's fought the best, and he's beaten the best.

"When he was going for the single-leg (takedown), I got one arm out and was looking to do the same with the other," he continued. "When I did that, I knew it (the guillotine) was on, so I finished it."

Ben Boekee (65.9kg, Holland) set his stall out from the get-go against Hugh Brady (69.4kg, Northern Ireland), locking in constant submissions coming off numerous big takedowns. A triangle choke was almost enough to finish it in the first, as an armbar was in the second, and even though Brady came back with some brutal ground-and-pound in the final round, the points seemed to have been tallied in favour of Boekee by that time. The decision was in fact split, however, with two judges giving the fight 29-28 Boekee, and one inexplicably scoring it 30-27 Brady.

In the first of the evening's professional bouts, Ali McClean (70kg, Northern Ireland) submitted Julien Denis (69.2kg, France) with a d'Arce choke in 2:44 of the first round. As expected, McClean was the proverbial house of fire, looking for big strikes, but he was soon able to take his over-matched opponent to the ground and apply an impressive finish.

In a bout fought under amateur rules (2x5 minute rounds, no striking to the head of a downed opponent - all the below bouts fought under these rules), Colin Neeson (64.5kg, Northern Ireland) won a majority decision over Jonny McGillion (65.8kg, Republic of Ireland). Neeson was more aggressive on his feet throughout, although McGillion showed good submission evasion on the ground.

In one of the most atmospheric contests of the evening, Ryan Boyd (118.9, Northern Ireland) took on Radek Rychlak (117.9kg, Poland). Boyd was the more accurate with his striking in the first round, and also produced one of the highlights of the night by body-slamming the Pole, using a technique more akin to professional wrestling than Mixed Martial Arts. He seemed to tire in the second round, however, and had no answer when Rychlak used his position on top to work a Kimura for the submission in 3:41 of the second round.

Brendan Dalton (69.5kg, Northern Ireland) had to wait until the second round to score a submission victory over Rowan Prenderville (69kg, Northern Ireland). Prenderville took several big shots to the chin in the first, a legacy of his low hands throughout, but seemed to have his opponent on the back-foot in the second. However, once the fight went to the ground, an armbar eventually sealed it in 3:14 of the second round.

Pat McAllister (75.6kg, Northern Ireland) delighted the partisan Belfast fans by producing a flawless 30-second performance to take a win from Rich Edgeworth (73.6kg, Republic of Ireland). McAllister immediately took the fight to the ground with a huge slam, and having had an attempt at a keylock foiled, transitioned beautifully to submit his opponent with an armbar.

Andy Young (65.9kg, Northern Ireland) knocked out Gareth Lyons (67.2kg, Northern Ireland) in 1:30, stalking his opponent before catching him with a short right-hand against the cage.

It was a battle of wrestling vs striking when Chris McFall (75.6kg, Northern Ireland) faced Ramunus Venslovas (75.4kg, Lithuania). After the full ten minutes had elapsed, all three judges scored the bout in favour of McFall.

Tirnan Carlin (67.7kg, Strabane) weathered a vicious storm from Stephen Hazzard (64.9kg, Northern Ireland), taking everything the Newcastle fighter had before tapping him with an achilles lock at 4:09 of the first round.

In the opening contest, Colin Quinn (76.7kg, Northern Ireland) tapped out Stephen Clelland (75.9kg, Northern Ireland) with a triangle choke in 2:37 of the first round.

November 2009

Cage Wars continues to grow its TV distribution. Setanta Sports will soon be screening the CWC archive throughout Ireland.

ESPN/Star are beaming CWC events to over 300 million homes across Asia.

In the USA FightZone TV is available to over 21 million homes on Fox Sport Net's (FSN) affiliates SunSports, SportSouth, and nationally on DIRECTV, The Dish Network and AT&T U-verse, reaching over 20% of US homes with cable TV.

In Canada The Fight Network will be screening Cage Wars throughout 2010.

The Extreme Sports Channel will commence broadcasting the Cage Wars archive from April 10th 2010. In the UK and Ireland the channel can be obtained on Sky or Virgin as follows; Sky channel - 419 Virgin Media - 527

Extreme is available through subscription to Sky's 'News and Events' package. Please contact Sky on 08702 424242, or website http://www.sky.com

The channel is also available via the Virgin Media XL package. For more details on how to receive the channel on Virgin Media please check out :
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/product.do?id=21 or call 0845 840 7777
The Extreme Sports Channel is also available worldwide (with the exception of UK and Ireland) on the Joost IPTV platform. For more information, or to watch the Extreme Sports Channel now, visit Joost.com

To get the Extreme Sports Channel, please contact your local cable operator. If you have any queries, please e-mail extreme@chellozone.com.

The Extreme Sports Channel is available in the following countries:

USA CANADA UK/Ireland

Algeria

Austria

Bahrain

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Chad

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Egypt

Estonia

Finland

France

Mauritania
Moldova
Morocco
The Netherlands
Norway
Oman
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Slovakia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Latvia

Lebanon

Libya

Lithuania

Malta

Slovenia Somalia
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Yemen

Cage Wars global TV Distribution continues to expand

January 2010