Cage Rage 19: Fearless 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 9 December 2006 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre

Earls Court Exhibition Centre

The Earls Court Exhibition Centre is an exhibition centre, conference and event venue located in west London, United Kingdom in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . It is the largest exhibition venue in central London. It is served by two underground stations, Earl's Court and West...

 in London

London

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, England

England

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. The event was Cage Rage's first show at this venue, and it was televised on Sky Sports

Sky Sports

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 in the United Kingdom.

The heavyweight double main event

Main Event

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 was based around a "UK vs. US" concept, featuring two name Americans against two British-based fighters. British 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:...

 faced Eric "Butterbean" Esch

Eric Esch

Eric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....

 in a non-title bout and Tengiz Tedoradze, the British-based Georgian

Georgia (country)

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 in his first Cage Rage appearance since being stripped of his British title, was scheduled to face Wesley "Cabbage" Correira

Wesley Correira

Wesley "Cabbage" Correira is an American mixed martial artist. He trains with BJ Penn in Hilo, Hawaii at BJ Penn MMA.-Biography:...

. Tedoradze replaced Robert "Buzz" Berry, who suffered a back injury in training.

Preliminary card

• Welterweight bout:   Francesco Ligato vs.   Suley Mahmoud

Mahmoud defeated Ligato via submission (rear-naked choke) at 0:37 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Matt Ewin vs.   Alan McAuley

Ewin defeated McAuley via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:53 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   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....
  
   vs.   Ross Mason

Mason defeated Liaudin via submission (heel hook) at 2:55 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   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...
  
   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...
  
  

Foupa-Pokam defeated Reid via unanimous decision after an accidental eyepoke brought the match to a premature end at 0:54 of round 2.

• 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.   Alan Murdock

Legeno defeated Murdock via submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:10 of round 1.

Main card

• Lightweight bout:   Danilo Cherman vs.   Jean Silva
  Jean Silva
  Jean "White Bear" Silva is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He held the Cage Rage lightweight title until he lost it to Vitor Ribeiro via arm triangle choke at Cage Rage 13...
  
  

Cherman defeated Silva via unanimous decision. Cherman broke his arm but managed to finish the fight.

• Welterweight bout:   Luiz Azeredo
  Luiz Azeredo
  Luiz Azeredo is a Brazilian Welterweight mixed martial artist, fighting out of the Chute Boxe Academy, Curitiba, Brazil. He has fought in the PRIDE and Cage Rage....
  
   vs.   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...
  
  

Azeredo defeated Daley via unanimous decision.

• World Lightweight Championship:   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...
  
   vs.   Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro (c)

Ribeiro defeated Nakamura via technical submission at 3:55 of round 1 due to a broken arm from a Kimura to retain the Cage Rage World Lightweight Championship.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Mark Epstein vs.   Elvis Sinosic
  Elvis Sinosic
  Elvis Sinosic is a retired Australian professional mixed martial artist.-Biography:Born in Canberra, Elvis Sinosic now resides in Sydney, where he practises his martial arts training. Elvis was born to Croatian parents and is proud of his Croatian heritage...
  
  

Sinosic defeated Epstein via submission (armbar) at 2:37 of round 1.

• British Middleweight Championship:   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.   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...
  
   (c)

Galešić defeated Weir via KO (punches) at 0:50 of round 1 to become the new Cage Rage British Middleweight Champion.

• Super Heavyweight bout:   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:...
  
   vs.   Eric "Butterbean" Esch
  Eric Esch
  Eric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....
  
  

Broughton defeated Esch via submission (punches) at 3:43 of round 2.