Cage Rage 16: Critical Condition was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 event held by the Cage Rage Championships on April 22, 2006 at the Wembley Conference Centre

Wembley Conference Centre

Wembley Conference Centre was a conference centre near Wembley Stadium, Wembley, in London, England.-History:Opened in 1977, it was the first purpose built Conference Centre in the UK. Events included conferences, corporate hospitality, annual general meetings, banquets and sports events including...

 in London

London

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, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The event was televised on Sky Sports

Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

 in the United Kingdom.

This was the last Cage Rage event to take place at the Wembley Conference Centre, with future events moving to the Wembley Arena

Wembley Arena

Wembley Arena is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium.-History:...

 and, for the most part, other areas around London. This event also featured a main event of Pride Fighting Championships veteran and future Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

 Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva

Anderson Silva

Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion and the promotion's longest reigning champion. With 14 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest winning streak and title defense streak in UFC history...

.

The card was hit hard by injuries, one notable fight hit being Gesias Cavalcante vs. Jess Liaudin

Jess Liaudin

Jess Liaudin is a French mixed martial artist who currently fights out of London, England. Jess trained in martial arts from eight years old; in karate initially and then moving on to kickboxing....

 after Liaudin was sent to hospital during his warm-up after fears that he was dehydrated. Fedor Emelianenko

Fedor Emelianenko

Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo...

 was also in attendance at this event.

Preliminary card

• Heavyweight bout:   Mark Buchanan vs.   Fereidoun Naghizadeh

Buchanan defeated Naghizadeh via TKO (cut) at 2:04 of round 2.

• Heavyweight bout:   Mostapha Al-turk
  Mostapha Al-turk
  Mostapha al-Turk is a retired Lebanese-born English mixed martial artist and submission wrestler. He has trained with London Shootfighters for the past ten years. Turk was the ADCC European Champion in 2005 and was the British Cage Rage Heavyweight Champion, before relinquishing his title to sign...
  
   vs.   Martin Thompson

Al-turk defeated Thompson via TKO (punches) at 3:02 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Michael Johnson
  Michael Johnson (fighter)
  Michael Johnson is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Johnson mostly competed in his regional circuit, before signing onto the Ultimate Fighting Championship circuit to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs...
  
   vs.   Daisuke Nakamura
  Daisuke Nakamura (fighter)
  Daisuke Nakamura is a Japanese professional mixed martial artist who has fought for DREAM, Strikeforce, M-1 Global, DEEP, ZST, Cage Rage, PRIDE, K-1 and Cage Force promotions. He holds notable victories over Nigerian K-1 kickboxer Andy Ologun and won his mixed martial arts debut against veteran...
  
  

Nakamura defeated Johnson via submission (kimura) at 1:54 of round 1.

• Heavyweight bout:   Edson Draggo vs.   Tengiz Tedoradze

Draggo defeated Tedoradze via KO (Punch) at 0:05 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Jeremy Bailey vs.   Jason Barrett

Bailey defeated Barrett via disqualification (hair pulling) in round 1.

• Cage Rage British Light Heavyweight Championship bout:   Mark Epstein vs.   Ryan Robinson

Epstein defeated Robinson via majority decision after three rounds to win the vacant Cage Rage British Light Heavyweight championship title.

• Heavyweight bout:   Robert Berry
  Robert Berry (fighter)
  Robert "Buzz" Berry is a retired English mixed martial artist. He formerly competed in the Heavyweight division and is a Cage Rage veteran.-Career:...
  
   vs. Gary Rawlings

Berry defeated Rawlings via submission (kimura) at 0:47 of round 1.

• Featherweight bout:   Hiroyuki Abe
  Hiroyuki Abe
  , also known as Abe Ani, is a Japanese former mixed martial artist, currently retired from fighting and teaching full time at his gym, Abe Ani Combat Club...
  
   vs.   Brad Pickett
  Brad Pickett
  Brad Pickett is an English mixed martial artist and the former Cage Rage British Featherweight champion and Ultimate Challenge MMA Featherweight Champion. He currently competes as a Bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
  

Pickett defeated Abe via unanimous decision after three rounds.

Main card

• Middleweight bout:   Jorge Patino
  Jorge Patino
  Jorge Luis Patino is a Brazilian vale tudo fighter whose career began in the 1990s. His style is focused around his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills. He is best remembered for his two epic vale tudo fights with Jose "Pele" Landi-Jons. Although he lost both fights, the pace and brutality of the fights...
  
   vs.   Curtis Stout

Patino defeated Stout via unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Middleweight bout:   James Nicholl vs.   Amar Suloev
  Amar Suloev
  Amar Suloev is a Russian-Yazidi-Armenian mixed martial artist with a record of 24–7–0. He is a kickboxer/wrestler who has last fought Jacek Buczko at M-1 Challenge, where he won by a TKO...
  
  

Suloev defeated Nicholl via TKO (doctor stoppage) at the end of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Paul Daley
  Paul Daley
  Paul Daley is an English professional mixed martial artist who has fought for EliteXC, Cage Rage, Strikeforce, BAMMA, Maximum Fighting Championship, Cage Warriors, Shark Fights, Impact FC, Pancrase and the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
   vs.   Dave Strasser
  Dave Strasser
  Dave Strasser is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He competes in the Welterweight division.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  

Daley defeated Strasser via unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Middleweight bout:   Dave Menne
  Dave Menne
  David Jeremy Menne is an American mixed martial artist who has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Rumble on the Rock. He was the first ever UFC Middleweight Champion and is known for his fight against Phil Baroni in which he got knocked out and tried to fall to the ground, only to...
  
   vs.   Alex Reid
  Alex Reid (MMA)
  Alexander Aristides Reid is an English mixed martial artist, kickboxer and actor who used the nickname The Reidernator. Reid has fought for Cage Rage, BAMMA and Cage Rage UK...
  
  

Menne defeated Reid via unanimous decision after three rounds.

• Cage Rage World Middleweight Championship bout:   Tony Fryklund vs.   Anderson Silva
  Anderson Silva
  Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion and the promotion's longest reigning champion. With 14 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest winning streak and title defense streak in UFC history...
  
  (c)

Silva defeated Fryklund via KO (elbow) at 2:02 of round 1.