Cage Rage 27: Step Up 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 12, 2008 at 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

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...

. It was televised on Nuts TV

Nuts TV

Nuts TV was a British television channel related to Nuts magazine. Nuts TV began broadcasting on Freeview channel 42 on 12 September 2007, and launched on Sky Digital on 21 January 2008....

 in the United Kingdom.

The event was headlined by "The New York Badass" Phil Baroni

Phil Baroni

Philip George Baroni is an American mixed martial artist. He has a professional MMA record of 14–14–0. Baroni has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he holds a record of 3–7–0. Also he has fought in the PRIDE FC where he holds a record of 4–2–0...

, making his Welterweight

Welterweight (MMA)

The welterweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*The UFC's & Strikeforce's welterweight division, which groups competitors within 156 to 170 lb...

 debut, against England's Scott Jansen. Also on the card was 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....

 looking to defend his Cage Rage British Featherweight Championship against Ashleigh Grimshaw, and 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 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:...

 for the vacant Cage Rage British Heavyweight Championship.

Results

• Middleweight bout:   James Elson vs.   Dave Van Gasse

Van Gasse defeated Elson via submission (rear naked choke) at 3:43 of round 3.

• Welterweight bout:   Jody Cottham vs.   Umidjon Mavlyanov

Cottham defeated Mavlyanov via submission (guillotine choke) at 3:16 of round 2.

• Lightweight bout:   Mark Brown vs.   Wesley Johnson

Johnson defeated Brown via TKO (punches) at 0:31 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout: Francis Heagney vs.   Jason Young
  Jason Young (fighter)
  Jason "Shotgun" Young is a professional English mixed martial artist currently fighting for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, in their Featherweight division. He currently trains at Team Titan and Semtex gym and he has trained with Brad Pickett.-Biography:...
  
  

Young defeated Heagney via unanimous decision.

• Women's Flyweight bout: Aisling Daly
  Aisling Daly
  Aisling Daly is an Irish female professional mixed martial artist who competes in the women's flyweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Daly has mostly fought in England and Ireland....
  
   vs.   Eva Liskova

Daly defeated Liskova via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:18 of round 1.

• Featherweight bout:   Cristian Binda 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 Binda via submission (guillotine choke) at 2:52 of round 2.

• British Featherweight Championship:   Ashleigh Grimshaw
  Ashleigh Grimshaw
  Ashleigh Grimshaw is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Grimshaw has spent his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....
  
   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 Grimshaw via submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:01 of round 2 to retain the Cage Rage British Featherweight Championship.

• Heavyweight bout:   Stav Economou
  Stav Economou
  Stavros Economou is an English mixed martial artist of Cypriot descent, who fights at heavyweight. He is known for his rotund figure, strange hairsyles and nickname "Crazy Bear".-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
   vs.   Piotr Kuśmierz

Economou defeated Kuśmierz via unanimous decision.

• Middleweight bout:   John Phillips
  John Phillips (fighter)
  John Phillips is a Welsh mixed martial artist, who fights at middleweight. He is a veteran of British MMA, having fought in Cage Rage and BAMMA.-Background:...
  
   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 Phillips via unanimous decision.

• British Heavyweight Championship:   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.   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:...
  
  

Al-turk defeated McSweeney via TKO (punches) at 2:06 of round 1 to win the vacant Cage Rage British Heavyweight Championship.

• 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.   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...
  
  

Grove defeated Berry via TKO (punches) at 1:29 of round 2.

• Welterweight bout:   Phil Baroni
  Phil Baroni
  Philip George Baroni is an American mixed martial artist. He has a professional MMA record of 14–14–0. Baroni has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he holds a record of 3–7–0. Also he has fought in the PRIDE FC where he holds a record of 4–2–0...
  
   vs.   Scott Jansen

Baroni defeated Jansen via KO (punch) at 3:18 of round 1.