M-1 Challenge To Hit UK Shores

Russian company M-1 Challenge has announced an event to be held in Nottingham, England on September 27th.

The event will be hosted by Warrior Promotions, the team in charge of UK Promotion Cage Warriors. They are expected to enter their own team of fighters into the M-1 line up for the first time.

The team format for the event will be Red Devils versus USA, and Russia Legion versus Europe. Expected to attend the event are Aleksander Emelianenko and Ian Freeman, who will be holding a seminar on September 26th, and Cage Warriors champions Dan Hardy and Gegard Mousasi.

Cage Warriors Forced To Cancel Show

We have recently learned that the Cage Warriors Quannum Fighting Challenge scheduled for this evening has had to be cancelled at the last minute. Here is the statement released on the subject:

Warrior Promotions & Quannum Fighting Challenge are disappointed to announce that the upcoming show on June 8 at the Frontier Nightclub in Batley has had to be cancelled due to circumstances out of their control.

Following a series of repeated pull outs and injuries over the past 4 weeks, the CWFC matchmaking team have faced the gruelling task of replacing fights almost on a daily basis. The pull outs included the withdrawal of Manuel Garcia who was matched to fight Matt Thorpe. In an email sent to Ian Dean of CWFC, Garcia stated some concerns over facing Thorpe and simply pulled out, after receiving his paid for and confirmed flights from Barcelona.

Despite all of this the CWFC Matchmaking team finally established a 10 bout card from its target of 12 and believed they had rescued the show featuring by now only 2 remaining Quannum members. Waiting in the wings however were Yorkshire Police who by their actions this week have prevented the fight going ahead. Following a court hearing yesterday which was ruled in favour of Warrior Promotions, the Police raised further objections and as a result the event has been cancelled. As this is now the matter of an ongoing legal dispute, further details cannot be given at this time but will be made public once this dispute is settled.

In the early hours of this morning, having exhausted all other possibilities it was decided between Quannum & CWFC to cancel the show and to re-stage the confirmed card including the World Title Bout between Paul McVeigh & Steve McCombe in Nottingham on July 12.

Paul Daley's Return Fight Announced

As we reported last month, former Cage Rage champion Paul "Semtex" Daley has returned from his retirement, which lasted only two months.

His opponent has now been named as Bojan "Zelva" Kosednar. The pair will meet at "Enter The Rough House 7" on July 12th. This event is run by Northen England based promotion Cage Warriors Fighting Championship. Kosednar is a Slovenian fighter who is currently working his way up the European rankings, with impressive wins over fighters such as Eiropean Top five welterweight Fabricio Nascimento.

This will be Daley's first fight after his return from retirement. He is expected to return to Pro Elite and fighting in America after this event.

CWFC World Title On The Line

On June 8th, the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Bantamweight Title will be fought for at Quannum Fighting Challenge 3 event.

The current champion Paul "Metabolic" McVeigh will take on Steve McCombe in an attempt to defend his belt. This fight will mark McVeigh's third defence of his belt. He is coming off a loss to former Shooto Featherweight Champion Masahiro Oishi at a Cage Force event in Japan. McVeigh's pro record is 12-5. He is well known to UK fans as being CWFC's first CWFC Featherweight champion by defeating Chin Weakasingh. Weakasingh is also the unlucky opponent that McVeigh defeated for his current title.

Steve McCombe holds a record of 7-3, and comes from the UK based EFR Fight Team. The pair will meet at The Frontier Noghtclub in Batley, West Yorkshire on June 8th.

Paul Daley Returns

British MMA fighter Paul "Semtex" Daley has announced his return to the cage, just two months after his retirement.

Former Cage Rage fighter Daley is set to fight for Cage Warriors at their next Enter the Rough House event on July 12th.

The news of Daley's retirement shocked his fans, and many have been calling for his return since he retired. No information is known as to why Daley retired in the first place, as he has refused to comment on this.