Cage Rage 18: Battleground 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 September 30, 2006 at 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:...

 in London

London

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, England

England

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. The event was televised on Sky Sports

Sky Sports

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 in the United Kingdom.

In the main event, Ian Freeman

Ian Freeman

Ian William Freeman, a.k.a. "The Machine," is a retired English mixed martial artist. He used to fight as a light heavyweight for Cage Rage. He was their final British Light Heavyweight champion....

 took on Mark Epstein for the Cage Rage British Light Heavyweight Championship. Also, British Heavyweight Champion Rob Broughton

Rob Broughton

Rob Broughton is an English mixed martial artist who competes as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former Cage Rage British heavyweight champion.-Background:...

 fought Robert "Buzz" 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:...

, World Lightweight Champ Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro faced off against Abdul Mohamed

Abdul Mohamed

Abdul Mohamed is an Afghan-English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight and welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Mohamed has starred in the domestic organisations, winning the Cage Rage British Lightweight Championship, as well as competing...

, British Welterweight Champion 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...

 met Sol Gilbert, and 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...

 looked to defend his British Featherweight title against Robbie Olivier

Robbie Olivier

Robbie Olivier is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2002, Oliver has spent almost his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....

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Results

• Middleweight bout:   Zelg Galešić
  Zelg Galesic
  Zelg Galešić is a Croatian mixed martial artist, currently fighting in Bellator Fighting Championships. He has previously fought in Cage Rage, PRIDE, DREAM, and Hero's...
  
   vs.   James Nicholl

Galešić defeated Nicholl via TKO (stomp and punches) at 2:02 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Alex Cook vs.   Xavier Foupa-Pokam
  Xavier Foupa-Pokam
  Xavier Foupa-Pokam is a French mixed martial artist from Paris. Foupa-Pokam is best known for his brief career in the Ultimate Fighting Championships in their middleweight division, and his long career in British MMA with promotions such as BAMMA and Cage Rage...
  
  

Foupa-Pokam defeated Cook via submission (armbar) at 4:45 of round 1.

• British Featherweight Championship:   Robbie Olivier
  Robbie Olivier
  Robbie Olivier is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2002, Oliver has spent almost his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....
  
   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...
  
   (c)

Olivier defeated Pickett via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:03 of round 3 to become the new Cage Rage British Featherweight Champion.

• British Welterweight Championship:   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...
  
   (c) vs.   Sol Gilbert

Daley defeated Gilbert via KO (punches) at 2:59 of round 2 to retain the Cage Rage British Welterweight Championship.

• Super Heavyweight bout:   Mark Buchanan vs.   Alexandru Lungu

Lungu defeated Buchanan via submission (Kimura) at 1:55 of round 1.

• 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.   Sentoryu
  Henry Armstrong Miller
  Since his retirement from sumo, Sentoryu has tried his luck at mixed martial arts. His debut was for PRIDE in April 2004.He has six wins and nine losses in his sixteen fights to date. He styles himself Henry "Sentoryu" Miller. He made an agreement with World Victory Road and recently fought...
  
  

Al-turk defeated Sentoryu via TKO (punches) at 0:56 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Tony Fryklund 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...
  
  

Fryklund defeated Reid via submission (heel hook) at 1:32 of round 1.

• World Lightweight Championship:   Abdul Mohamed
  Abdul Mohamed
  Abdul Mohamed is an Afghan-English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight and welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Mohamed has starred in the domestic organisations, winning the Cage Rage British Lightweight Championship, as well as competing...
  
   vs.   Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro (c)

Ribeiro defeated Mohamed via submission (Kimura) at 4:27 of round 1 to retain the Cage Rage World Lightweight Championship.

• British Heavyweight Championship:   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.   Rob Broughton
  Rob Broughton
  Rob Broughton is an English mixed martial artist who competes as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former Cage Rage British heavyweight champion.-Background:...
  
   (c)

Broughton defeated Berry via TKO (punches) at 3:33 of round 1 to retain the Cage Rage British Heavyweight Championship.

• Heavyweight bout:   Dave Legeno
  Dave Legeno
  David "Dave" Legeno is an English actor, boxer and mixed martial artist.-Life and career:Legeno was born in Marylebone, London, England. He has been quoted as saying that he wanted to act since he read Shakespeare's Richard III...
  
   vs.   Kimo Leopoldo
  Kimo Leopoldo
  Kimo Leopoldo , or simply Kimo, is an American mixed martial artist. He made his MMA debut at UFC 3 in 1994 losing to Royce Gracie by submission. Kimo's fighting style has been described as freestyle, with a mixture of striking and grappling techniques.He was credited with a black belt in Taekwondo...
  
  

Legeno defeated Leopoldo via submission (guillotine choke) at 3:21 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Murilo "Ninja" Rua
  Murilo Rua
  Murilo Rua is a former Brazilian mixed martial artist who fought in Pride Fighting Championships. Nicknamed Ninja, he is the older brother of former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. He is known for his well-rounded fighting skills, in particular Muay Thai and Brazilian...
  
   vs.   Mark Weir
  Mark Weir
  Mark Anthony Weir is an English mixed martial artist usually fighting in the middleweight division at 185 lbs. He has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Pride Fighting Championships, and is the former Cage Rage British middleweight champion- Biography :Mark Weir lives in...
  
  

Rua defeated Weir via submission (arm triangle choke) at 1:15 of round 2.

• British Light Heavyweight Championship:   Mark Epstein (c) vs.   Ian Freeman
  Ian Freeman
  Ian William Freeman, a.k.a. "The Machine," is a retired English mixed martial artist. He used to fight as a light heavyweight for Cage Rage. He was their final British Light Heavyweight champion....
  
  

Freeman defeated Epstein via unanimous decision to become the new Cage Rage British Light Heavyweight Champion.