Cage Rage 22: Hard as Hell 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 July 14, 2007 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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. It was televised on Sky Sports

Sky Sports

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 in the United Kingdom.

The event was headlined by 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....

 vs Cage Rage British Heavyweight Champion Tengiz Tedoradze in a non-title Super Heavyweight

Super Heavyweight (MMA)

The super heavyweight division in mixed martial arts has no weight limit but generally refers to competitors weighing above 265 lb .Across Europe and Asia, there are numerous promotions that feature open-weight competitions that can qualify as super heavyweight bouts.One such example is in Japan,...

 bout. Two title fights were also on the card as Paul Cahoon and Mark Epstein fought for the vacant Cage Rage British Light Heavyweight Championship, and Ronnie Mann

Ronnie Mann

Ronnie Mann is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Mann has mostly fought in England and Japan....

 took on Cage Rage British Featherweight Champion 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:   Ed Smith vs.   Tom Watson
  Tom Watson (fighter)
  Tom "Kong" Watson is an English mixed martial artist, currently fighting at middleweight and training at Tristar Gym in Montreal, Canada and Jackson's Submission Fighting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is known for his unorthodox entrances, dancing to the ring in a gorilla mask...
  
  

Watson defeated Smith via unanimous decision.

• Middleweight bout:   Tommy Murray-Smith vs.   Damien Riccio

Riccio defeated Murray-Smith via submission (arm triangle choke) at 2:00 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Dean Bray vs.   Ross Pointon
  Ross Pointon
  Ross Pointon is an English mixed martial artist who holds a record of 6 wins and 12 losses. He was a competitor in season three of The Ultimate Fighter, fighting in the Light Heavyweight division after premiering in the Middleweight division under Ken Shamrock...
  
  

Pointon defeated Bray via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:10 of round 2.

• Welterweight bout:   Ross Mason vs. Marius Žaromskis
  Marius Žaromskis
  Marius Žaromskis is a Lithuanian welterweight mixed martial artist. After fighting the majority of his career for British promotion Cage Rage, he signed with DREAM in 2009 and then, later that year, with Strikeforce. With DREAM, Žaromskis won their 2009 Welterweight Grand Prix and became their...
  
  

Žaromskis defeated Mason via KO (flying knee) at 2:03 of round 3.

• British Featherweight Championship:   Ronnie Mann
  Ronnie Mann
  Ronnie Mann is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Mann has mostly fought in England and Japan....
  
   vs.   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....
  
   (c)

Olivier defeated Mann via unanimous decision to retain the Cage Rage British Featherweight Championship.

• Heavyweight bout:   Mark Buchanan vs.   James McSweeney
  James McSweeney
  James Adam McSweeney is an English mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai kickboxer. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights.-Biography:...
  
  

McSweeney defeated Buchanan via TKO (punches) at 1:30 of round 1.

• British Light Heavyweight Championship:   Paul Cahoon vs.   Mark Epstein

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

• Heavyweight bout:   Edson Draggo vs.   Gary Turner
  Gary Turner
  Gary "Two Horns" Turner is an English professional kickboxer and mixed martial artist who fought in the Cage Rage and K-1 promotions. Turner was the K-1 UK Grand Prix champion in 2003 and 2004...
  
  

Turner defeated Draggo via TKO (corner stoppage) at 5:00 of round 2.

• Heavyweight bout:   Lee Hasdell
  Lee Hasdell
  Lee Hasdell is a former British mixed martial artist, kickboxer and promoter. He promoted the first professional mixed martial arts events in the United Kingdom. Lee Hasdell began his professional career as a Kickboxer in 1989, eventually winning three British Kickboxing titles...
  
   vs.   Mario Sperry
  Mario Sperry
  Mario Sperry is a Brazilian heavyweight martial artist. His specialty is Brazilian jiu-jitsu, grappling and ground fighting.-Career:Sperry first broke onto the sport Jiu-Jitsu scene in the early eighties...
  
  

Sperry defeated Hasdell via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:39 of round 1.

• Super Heavyweight bout:   Neil Grove
  Neil Grove
  Neil Grove is a South African-born English heavyweight mixed martial artist currently signed with Bellator Fighting Championships. He holds a black belt rank of shodan in Gōjū-ryū karate...
  
   vs.   James Thompson
  James Thompson (fighter)
  James Thompson is an English mixed martial artist. He fights as a heavyweight and has appeared in such promotions as Elite Xtreme Combat , Pride Fighting Championship, and Cage Rage. He is known for rushing his opponents at the start of the bout.-Biography:James Thompson grew up in Rochdale,...
  
  

Grove defeated Thompson via KO (punch) at 0:10 of round 1.

• Heavyweight bout:   Herb Dean
  Herb Dean
  Herb Dean is an American mixed martial arts fighter and referee. Dean is one of the most seen and well respected referees in mixed martial arts with well over 3,500 professional matches worldwide...
  
   vs.   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...
  
  

Legeno defeated Dean via TKO (eye injury) at 5:00 of round 1.

• Super Heavyweight bout:   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....
  
   vs.   Tengiz Tedoradze

Tedoradze defeated Esch via TKO (punches) at 4:26 of round 1.