The event was held in a tournament format, with two semi-finals taking place in the Lightweight, Welterweight and Middleweight divisions. The semi-final winners progressed to the final, which is to take place at a later date.[2]
Mark Adams was scheduled to fight Paul Reed in the main event for the vacant Featherweight Title.[citation needed] However, he was picked up an injury two weeks before the fight and was replaced by Germany's Alan Omer. Omer, also admitted to having an injury but went ahead with the fight nonetheless.[citation needed] Chris Stringer was also set up against AJ Wenn, but Wenn ended up fighting Ali McClean instead.
Tabloid celebrity and former MMA fighter Alex Reid was scheduled to return to the cage and face Tom Watson at the event.[citation needed] However, Reid injured his knee while filming his documentary TV series Alex Reid: The Fight of His Life and was forced to pull out of the fight. This angered Watson, who claimed Reid was disrespecting him.[8] Watson also called him a "clown" and said that it was likely Reid pulled out to avoid an embarrassing defeat.[9] Reid was then replaced by UFC and IFL veteran Matt Horwich.
Rob Sinclair was also set to defend his lightweight title against Claes Beverlöv, though Beverlöv later pulled out due to injury and was replaced by fellow Swede Jani Lax.[citation needed] Lax would then withdraw on 22 September.[citation needed]
BAMMA 5 was the first BAMMA event held outside of Birmingham or London. The event was originally scheduled to take place at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle on 4 December 2010 and headlined by a heavyweight bout between Stav Economou and Bob Sapp.[13] However, due to snowstorms in the UK the event was cancelled.[14]
The main event was scheduled to award the vacant Welterweight title match but was changed to a non-title contest when Paul Daley failed to make the required weight by just 0.88 pounds (400 grams).[16]
This event aired live on the UK TV channel SyFy, as part of a new TV deal. It was also broadcast live around the world on www.bammatv.com as an online stream pay per view, a first for the organization.
BAMMA 6 was announced during the television presentation of BAMMA 5. This was the first BAMMA event to be held at the Wembley Arena. Phil Baroni pulled out of a bout against Matt Ewin and Ivan Salaverry stepped in 3 weeks out.
BAMMA 6: Watson vs. Rua was named as the best event of 2011 at the UK MMA Awards.
BAMMA held its first ever British Middleweight title fight to crown the first champion in their new British title division aimed at developing a British champion in each weight class.[20]
Paul Daley fought Jordan Radev in his second BAMMA appearance.[citation needed] Daley ended up missing the welterweight weight limit by 6 pounds on the day of the weigh ins. The bout still went on at a catchweight of 176 pounds.[21][better source needed]
BAMMA will also hold its very first bantamweight bout with Érik Pérez vs. James Brum on the undercard.
Efrain Escudero was scheduled to face Tim Radcliffe in a lightweight bout. However, on 6 September, it was announced that visa issues prevented his travel to the United Kingdom.[22]
Rob Sinclair was supposed to defend his World Lightweight Championship against Leonardo Santos. The bout, however, was canceled after Santos refused to fly to the event. Diego Vital stepped up on one day's notice to take the fight.[21]
This event was meant to hold the BAMMA debut of Nate Marquardt, but it has been pushed back to 2012 and will be against Yoshiyuki Yoshida. Marquardt has shown his desire for his opponent to be UFC, Cage Rage, Strikeforce and BAMMA veteran Paul Daley.[23] Daley, however, later decided not to take the fight, citing that between having already competed 5 times in 2011 from 21 October and being such a high-stakes fight, it was in his best interest to look have his next fight in 2012 so he can rest up and work out a gameplan against Marquardt.[24]
UCMMA Light Heavyweight Champion Jimi Manuwa has signed a four-fight deal with BAMMA and made his promotional debut on this show.[25]
UFC Hall of Fame member and MMA legend Randy Couture will be appearing at BAMMA 8 to meet fans and sign copies of his new book 'The Last Round'.[26]
Andre Winner was slated to fight Niko Puhakka in a lightweight title eliminator. However Puhakka was pulled from the card and replaced by Diego Gonzalez.[27]
Nate Marquardt was due to headline the main event however this is no longer the case since he mutually cancelled his BAMMA contract.[30]
BAMMA 9 aired on a week's delay on Extreme Sports Channel in the UK (Channel 419 on Sky and Channel 527 on Virgin).[31]
Sam Hooker and Rus Smith were expected to fight on the card, however due to injuries they were replaced by Luke Barnatt and Lewis Long respectively.[32][better source needed]
This will mark the first mixed martial arts event to be part of a ground-breaking deal with Channel 5. The event will air live on Channel 5's sister channel – 5*, and then the following week a highlights package will be shown on Channel 5.[34][35]
One 20 July, BAMMA announced the co-main event bout, which will have Jack Marshman defending his British Middleweight title against Andrew Punshon.[37]
Alex Reid is set to return to BAMMA at this event.[39]
This event will also crown the first BAMMA British Welterweight Champion and the first British Lightweight Champion.[40]
UCMMA Light Heavyweight champion Linton Vassell was scheduled to face Jason Jones at this event as the co-main event, but Vassell had to pull out due to injury.[41]
The event made history in the UK as the first MMA event to have been shown live on terrestrial television. However, there has been controversy over the layout of the event in the one-hour timeframe. On Channel 5, the only fight to have been shown live was Alex Reid vs Sam Boo, and then highlights of what was supposed to have been the main event, Jack Marshman vs. Xavier Foupa-Pokam. Reid had not fought for over a year by this point and admitted going into the fight that he was very rusty and had not been training properly until September, and this reflected in the fight as it was described by The Mirror as scrappy, at times it was dirty (both men were deducted points for fouls during the bout) and slow-paced.[42] Overall many critics and fans felt that it was the wrong fight to present as the historic first live fight on Channel 5.
The event crowned the promotion's first World Light Heavyweight and World Welterweight champions as well as crowned a new World Lightweight Champion, which mas made vacant by Rob Sinclair when he signed to Bellator MMA. Max Nunes faced Jason Jones for the Light Heavyweight title, Jim Wallhead took on Eddy Ellis for the Welterweight title & Curt Warburton faced off against Mansour Barnaoui for the Lightweight title.[44]
After a short stint in the UFC, Colin Fletcher returned to BAMMA at this event for a bout against Tim Newman.[45][46]
BackgroundPaul Daley made his return to BAMMA at this event with a KO victory against Romário Manoel da Silva, and Mansour Barnaoui defended his lightweight title for the first time when he defeated Colin Fletcher.[48]
Scott Askham was scheduled to defend his Middleweight Championship against Ion Pascu, but had to withdraw due to an injury. Max Nunes dropped weight and was announced as the replacement to face Pascu in a Middleweight bout.
It is the first Fight Night in a series of events intended to bring the BAMMA franchise to smaller cities and towns across the UK, the shows will give contracted fighters more opportunities to compete in addition to developing more localised talent.
BAMMA 20 was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA) on 25 April 2015.
Rany Saadeh was scheduled to defend his BAMMA Flyweight Championship again Chris Miah, but 4 days before the event Saadeh got an infection and was not medically cleared by doctors to compete. Spanish fighter Daniel Barez stepped in on short notice and fought against Miah in a non-title bout.
Fight Card
Preliminary Card
Weight class
Method
Round
Time
Notes
Welterweight
Oliver Paske
def.
Arthur Jakub
Submission (guillotine choke)
1
2:18
Featherweight
Aiden Lee
def.
Adam Jahovic
Decision (unanimous)
3
5:00
Lightweight
Harry Marple
def.
Chris Astley
Submission (Japanese necktie)
2
1:41
Bantamweight
Regis Sugden
def.
Ant Phillips
TKO (punches)
1
3:51
Featherweight
Chase Morton
def.
Wayne Drake
TKO (punches)
1
4:07
Welterweight
Jack Grant
def.
Warren Kee
KO (punches)
1
1:04
Lightweight
Rick Selvarajah
def.
Jefferson George
Decision (split)
3
5:00
Main Card
Weight class
Method
Round
Time
Notes
Flyweight
Chris Miah
def.
Daniel Barez
Submission (rear naked choke)
2
1:46
Bantamweight
Ed Arthur
def.
Alan Philpott
Submission (rear naked choke)
2
0:56
For the Inaugural BAMMA World Bantamweight Championship
For the BAMMA World Lightweight Championship. Parke missed the championship weight limit (155 lbs, Parke weighed in at 155.8 lbs), meaning only Redmond was eligible to win the title.
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