AND NEW! CREASEY HAS DONE IT!
Pure drama.
In his third flyweight title fight, Sam Creasey weathers early
adversity and secures the submission finish.
#CW129 pic.twitter.com/TJWNWE862J
— Cage Warriors (@CageWarriors)
October 2, 2021
The final installment of the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship
trilogy saw more guillotines than the French Revolution.
In the Cage
Warriors 129 main event, Sam
Creasey (15-3, 10-3 CW) took on former divisional title
holder Luke Shanks
(8-3, 4-2 CW) for the vacant flyweight championship. Only “Urai”
was eligible to win the title since his Shanks missed the
championship weight by 2.7 pounds ahead of their clash. Creasey
relied on his wrestling and grappling skills early in the bout,
forcing “The Apocalypse” to defend himself from a rear-naked choke
from his back. Shanks fought his way out of the sticky situation
and back to his feet, but the stream cut off shortly thereafter and
left viewers wondering what happened.
When the stream returned midway through Round 2, Creasey was
bleeding from his apparently broken nose, implying that a momentum
shift happened during the technical difficulties. Shanks looked to
attack his opponent’s face for the rest of the bout, while Creasey
worked at the body. Both fighters spent the third round on the
feet, exchanging combinations that seemed to favor Creasey. In an
attempt to cut down his opponent’s offense, Shanks shot for a
double leg that “Urai” immediately turned into a guillotine,
forcing “The Apocalypse” to tap at the 3:38 mark of Round 3. After
coming up short in two previous title bids, Creasey seizes the Cage
Warriors 125-pound championship while extending his winning streak
to four.
Rhys McKee shines on his return from the UFC
A TKO win back in the yellow gloves!The referee had seen enough after “Skeletor” delivered 3 rounds of
punishment
#CW129 pic.twitter.com/QSbzHuz6Ok— Cage Warriors (@CageWarriors)
October 2, 2021
The co-headliner featured Ultimate Fighting Championship alum
Rhys
McKee’s (11-4-1, 4-0 CW) promotional return against Aleksi
Mantykivi (13-7, 0-3 CW) in a welterweight affair. “Skeletor”
made the most out of his longer reach to attack his Finnish
opponent with shots from afar while Mantykivi answered with an
abundance of leg kicks. In the second, the Loop Martial Arts rep
lost his mouthguard, suffered two eye pokes — which resulted in a
point deduction for McKee—and survived through a rear-naked choke
and a triangle choke attempt. However, his luck ran out in the next
frame, as referee Rich
Mitchell stepped in at the 3:18 mark of the third period to
save Mantykivi from a series of unanswered shots landed by his
Northern Irish opponent. The 26-year-old McKee bounced back
following an unsuccessful UFC stint that ended after back-to-back
losses.
Earlier on the card, Bellator MMA veteran George
Hardwick (8-1, 2-1 CW) rattled off his fourth consecutive
victory by submitting Oktagon MMA vet Jakub
Dohnal (8-2, 0-1 CW) with a guillotine choke 2:48 into the
second frame of their 155-pound encounter; Trojan Free Fighters’
standout Mateusz
Figlak (6-1, 3-1 CW) extended his winning streak to four by
putting away the “Ninja Viking” Joachim
Tollefsen (5-4, 0-1 CW) with punches at 4:49 in Round 1 at
welterweight and the main card opened with Steve
Aimable (17-8, 7-5 CW) throttling Walter
Cogliandro (10-2-1, 0-1 CW) with a guillotine choke with 33
seconds left in the opening stanza at featherweight.
On the preliminary card, former CW middleweight title challenger
Jamie
Richardson (10-7, 6-4 CW) induced a tapout from Venator
Fighting Championship alum Alessandro
Botti (15-13, 0-1 CW) thanks to a guillotine choke at the 2:29
mark in Round 2 at welterweight; Michal
Figlak (6-0, 4-0 CW) defeated Kieran
Lister (7-2-2, 1-2-1 CW) via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27,
30-27) in a lightweight battle; Harry
Hardwick (8-3, 2-0 CW) upended Konmon Deh
(11-8, 2-4 CW) with a unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 29-27) in a
featherweight affair; at flyweight, Aurora MMA’s Dylan Hazan
(7-0, 2-0 CW) overwhelmed Scott
Malone (9-5, 4-4 CW) with relentless takedowns en route to a
split decision victory (29-28, 29-28, 28-29).