Cage Contender is set to hit Dublin on 23 July and the newly-released fight card is looking like a cracker.
Topping the bill at the 3,500 capacity National Basketball Arena is 145lbs Champion “Rowdy” Owen Roddy (MMA 8-3-0/CC 1-0-0), who is undefeated since 2008.
Roddy, who won the featherweight strap with a brutal slaying of Welsh veteran Shane Thomas in Belfast at the end of 2010, will face the formidable Benjamin “Son of Life” Davis (MMA 6-1-0/CC 1-0-0).
The flamboyant Davis is coming off a win by head kick KO in his eliminator fight at CC8 and while he has been complementary of Roddy in the run-up, his opponent has made it clear that he expects to finish the fight before the final bell.
Chief support bout is the mouth-watering middleweight title clash between 185lbs Champion Chris “The Killing” Fields (MMA 7-3-0/CC 3-0-0) and John “Wrecking Machine” Redmond. This one has a real edge to it – Redmond rose from the crowd to taunt Fields as he was leaving the octagon after his win at CC9, saying he would take his title when the pair met.
Fields is an excellent technical fighter but the Wrecking Machine has KO power in both hands. The massive war of words has continued with the emergence of a Redmond training video in which he is beating a bag with Fields’ SBG logo on the front of it. SBG have reacted with anger, making it very clear that they will make Redmond pay in the cage for the insult.
Meanwhile, the undercard is stacked with some of the hottest talent in Irish MMA.
“My job is simple; to provide the fans with what they want to see,” said Cage Contender CEO John Ferguson. “That’s why they spend their hard earned cash time and again coming to Cage Contender events.”
John continued, “We know that it is the fighters and the fans who make the promotion what it is and that’s why we take on board their views and opinions to create the end product.”
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