The second leg of the 2021 Cage Warriors Fighting Championship trilogy is
good to go after every fighter made weight.
The CW
121 main event pits Agy Sardari
against Donovan
Desmae with the 155-pound championship on the line. In his
latest performance, Sardari (13-2, 1-0 CW) edged Jack Grant
via split decision, taking home the vacant belt and becoming the
first Dutch Cage Warriors champion since Gegard
Mousasi won the 185-pound belt in 2006. “The Wolverine” had no
issues in making the championship weight as he tipped the scale at
154.8 pounds.
Desmae (12-6, 5-3 CW) earned a shot at the divisional title
following back-to-back victories. Recently, the Belgian fighter
submitted Tim Barnett
with a rear-naked choke at the 2:49 mark of the opening stanza at
CW 107. Before then, he smashed Alexander
Jacobsen in the second stanza of the CW 105 co-main event.
“Vegas” weighed in at 154.4 pounds to make the headliner
official.
In the co-main event, 135-pound kingpin Jack
Cartwright will attempt his third title defense against
promotional newcomer Sylwester
Miller. Cartwright (9-0, 4-0 CW) captured the divisional throne
after scoring two knockouts in the four-man, one-night tournament
at Unplugged 2. Upon winning the strap, Cartwright defended it
against Manuel
Bilic and then Gerardo
Fanny in 2020. Cartwright stepped on the scale without concern,
hitting the 135-pound mark exactly.
Miller (9-3, 0-0 CW) is coming off two victories in his latest cage
appearances in his native Poland. The Polish fighter submitted
Dawid
Pasternak via rear-naked choke at AFN 7, and then defeated
Piotr
Kaminski over the course of three rounds at Babilon MMA 13.
Miller weighed in at 134.9 pounds and locked in the second title
fight.
The rest of the fighters billed to compete at CW 121 hit their
contracted weight without controversy. The card should have also
featured a catchweight contest between Mark Kinsella and Oban
Elliott, but the matchup was removed without the promotion
offering an official explanation.
Cage Warriors 121 airs live on UFC Fight Pass on Friday at 3:15
p.m. ET/12:15 p.m. PT.
Cage Warriors 121 Weigh-in Results:
Agy
Sardari (154.8) vs. Donovan
Desmae (154.4)
Jack
Cartwright (135) vs. Sylwester
Miller (134.9)
Matthew
Bonner (185.3) vs. James Webb
(185.4)
Jack
Grant (169) vs. Madars
Bertholds-Fleminas (170.9)
Rostem
Akman (170.9) vs. Ian Garry
(170)
Bryan
Creighton (135.6) vs. Josh Reed
(135.7)
Omeil
Brown (170.7) vs. Joshua
Onwordi (167.4)