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Cage Warriors have a brilliant opportunity to warm up MMA fans for UFC 205 with their Cage Warriors: Unplugged card. Live from the BT Sports Studios in Queen Elizabeth Park on November 12th and on BT Sport, UFC Fight Pass and Viasat.
This card must be seen as a huge opportunity for Paddy "The Baddy" Pimblett and Chris Fishgold to impress the small studio audience as well as the large audience watching on TV.
We take a look at the fights in depth, and work out who has the upper hand!
Cage Warriors Lightweight Championship: Chris Fishgold (16-1-1) vs Nic Herron-Webb (19-7)
Chris Fishgold has had five straight wins all of which have ended in the first round. This will be Fishgold's sixth fight in under twelve months and you can't see him being cooled down by Alaska native Nic Herron-Webb, who fights outside of the United states for just the second time in his career.
Herron-Webb took part in The Ultimate Fighter Season 16: Team Carwin vs Team Nelson losing to Igor Araujo in the elimination round, the first of three straight losses for the Alaskan, who returned to winning ways in the Alaska Fighting Championship in which he has found most of his success. He appeared of WSOF 26 in the co-main event but lost unanimously to Ozzy Dugulubov in front of the NBC cameras and always seems to struggle when fighting outside of his home state.
Chris Fishgold is on an impressive streak and appears to be bound for pastures new in the near future and you can't look past him to utilise his jiu-jitsu and (probably) submit Herron-Webb.
I'd love to see a fight between Chris Fishgold and Saul Rogers... take my money!
Cage Warriors Featherweight Championship: Paddy Pimblett (12-1) vs Julian Erosa (17-3)
Paddy "The Baddy" Pimblett enters his ninth fight for Cage Warriors and is unbeaten since a submission defeat to Cameron Else in 2013. He faces off against another ex-TUF contestant Julian "Juicy J" Erosa who fights outside of the United States for the first time in his career.
Paddy Pimblett is probably the most popular British fighter outside of the UFC and recently declared that he is also the best paid having re-signed with Cage Warriors despite alleged interest from UFC & Bellator with the sweetener of another show at the ECHO Arena in his hometown of Liverpool enough to keep the "Baddy" on board. Paddy will fight for the fourth time this year and will expect to get the better of Julian Erosa despite being less experienced.
Erosa managed to (somehow) get through to the semi-finals of TUF 22: Team McGregor vs Team Faber with two decision victories over the highly rated Mehdi Baghdad and the experienced Abner Lloveras until he was stopped in the first round by McGregor's teammate Artem Lobov. Juicy J also fought at the TUF 22 Finale picking up (another) decision victory over Marcin Wrzosek in a fight you'd be certain not to look out for on Fight Pass! He then faced Teruto Ishihara at UFC 196 and was stopped in the second round and subsequently hasn't competed in the UFC since. He has recently become the Prime Fighting Champion after defeating Austin Springer on October 8th.
You cannot look past "The Baddy" for this fight, even with Erosa's "TUF pedigree". Pimblett's striking will be too hot to handle for "Juicy J" and I can't see any way trouble coming for the Liverpudlian. Paddy will be expected to put on a show infront of his ever growing fan base and continue his ascent in the MMA world.
Pimblett vs Loughnane next please!
The rest of the card is as below:
Welterweight: Matt Inman (18-8) vs Che Mills (16-8-0-3nc)
Middleweight: Faycal Hucin (11-3) vs Andreas Michailidis (7-2)
Light Heavyweight: Johan Romming (9-5-1) vs Kenneth Bergh (4-0)
Light Heavyweight: Karl Moore (6-1) vs TBA
Featherweight: Nathan Sparks (3-4) vs Lloyd Manning (1-0)
Flyweight: Shaj Haque (8-2) vs Sam Creasey (7-0)
Middleweight: John Redmond (7-12) vs Leeroy Barnes (15-16)
