Cage Warriors Add 7 Fighters to its Roster

Cage Warriors Add 7 Fighters to its Roster
by Chris Houten - @kingdomMMAChris

Europe's premier MMA organisation Cage Warriors continues its expansion by adding 7 fighters to its ever expanding roster.

Former Bamma Britsh Lightweight Champion Steven Ray, as well as Shaj Haque, Mick Sinclair, Carl Noon, Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Bryan Creighton and John Redmond have all signed exclusive, 5 fight deals

Former Bamma title holder Ray (12-4), hold notable wins CWFC veterans Merv Mulholland and Dale Hardiman. The 23-year old Scot, is currently 12th in the UK’s lightweight ranking, and is tipped by his Dinky Ninjas coach James Doolan, to go on the be one of the Top Lightweights in Europe.

Team Kaobon fighter Carl Noon (7-2), is an aggressive middleweight who hold victory over TUF Smashes contestant Bola Omoyele and former CWFC champion Chris Fields. Finishing all but one of his 7 victories by either TKO or submission, Noon is 7-1 in has last 8 fights, with his only loss coming to Jack Marshman when the two meet for the Bamma Britsh Middleweight Title.

Now a top-10 UK flyweight, 22-year-old Haque (3-0) has impressed on Cage Warriors already this year with victories against Kris Edwards and Olly Battell.

English lightweight Sinclair (12-3), who hold notable victories over Ashleigh Grimshaw, Jason Ball and Oriol Gaset began his professional MMA career in 2006, and has previously fought 3 times for Cage Warriors. Sinclair Joins the promotion on the back of a 8-1 run.

A 27-year-old unbeaten featherweight, Fitzpatrick (3-0) is one of the UK’s most exciting prospects having taken all of his professional wins by first-round TKO.

Creighton (3-1), who has fought for OMMAC, and Bamma is ranked as one of The  UK’s top 20 flyweights. The 27-year-old made his professional debut less than a year ago and has has gone on to win 3 of 4 pro bouts

Despite suffering a loss to Piotr Ptasinski on his CWFC debut at Cage Warriors 55 recently, 29-year-old Redmond (4-7) did enough to impress CEO Graham Boylan and earn a five-fight deal.

Boylan said: “John picked up an injury but still put in a valiant performance against Piotr Ptasinski. He displayed a great attitude and I believe he can go on to show that his current record isn’t a fair reflection of his ability.

“In Bryan and Lawrence we’ve got two fantastic prospects from the north-west of England, while Mick and Carl are two very experienced guys with the ability to make a big impact on their respective divisions.

“Shaj has the potential to go on and have a very successful career and the same goes for Stevie Ray, who’s still extremely young in spite of the number of fights he’s already had.

“I’m very happy to have all seven of these guys on the roster. I’d like to welcome them to Cage Warriors and wish them all the very best of luck for the future.”

Promotional debut for Ray, Haque, Sinclair, Noon, Fitzpatrick, Creighton and Redmond as yet to be confirmed, however all are expect to fight in 2013.