Cage Warriors Welcome 11 Signings Following Bellator’s Additions:

Cage Warriors Welcome 11 Signings Following Bellator’s Additions:

By Dan McConnell

Cage Warriors have recently announced the signing of 11 new fighters to join the promotion, which comes days after Bellator signed 24 fighters across the UK and Irish MMA scene. Cage Warriors is one of Europe’s leading mixed martial arts promotions and is one of the few top promotions to take their events abroad travelling throughout countries in Europe, North America and the Middle East. It is also one of few promotions that feature’s live events on the UFC’s digital streaming service UFC Fight Pass.

Cage Warriors announced the signings of Liverpool’s Tim Barnett (5-1) exciting Team SBG prospect Dylan Tuke (4-2) Englishman Ed Arthur (8-4) unbeaten prospect Adam Aramasinghe (3-0) and MMA veteran Jason Radcliffe (13-6) among other names.

The first fighter announced was Team MMA Academy in Liverpool’s Tim Barnett. Now 5-1 in his pro career and with an undefeated amateur run under his belt, Barnett has established himself as a legitimate prospect and trains with UFC fighter ‘Meatball’ Molly McCann. Barnett has also fought for the BAMMA Lightweight title against Rhys McKee and joins Cage Warriors as a Welterweight beginning a new chapter in his career.

Former Brave CF and ACB Bantamweight fighter Ed ‘King’ Arthur has recently put pen to paper on a permanent move to Cage Warriors. Arthur recently made his CW debut against Mike Ekundayo in CW95’s co-main event to the Welterweight title clash main-event between Paterno and Janzemini.

Irish prospect Dylan ‘The Nuke’ Tuke has made his name known across the Featherweight scene in Europe with promotions such as BAMMA, Bellator and Brave CF. Trained by head coach John Kavanagh at SBG Ireland who’ve breed champions with the promotion, the most famous former Cage Warriors and UFC dual-champ Conor McGregor. Tuke will look to put a good run together and progress his young MMA career with his new home.

After impressive showings at CW95 Adam ‘Apex’ Aramasinghe and Steve ‘Diddy Kong’ Aimable have signed permanent contracts to remain with Cage Warriors to develop their professional careers. Corrin Eaton, whose fight of the night with Dean Trueman at CW92 received widespread viral attention, has also committed to competing further with CW. Former Bellator and London-born fighter Jason ‘The Assassin’ Radcliffe has joined the Cage Warriors roster for the first time since his world title fight with Oskar Piechota who signed with the UFC last year. Radcliffe is looking to make the climb back to the middleweight division.

With the 1st September in Liverpool, 29th September in Cardiff and 20th October in Birmingham events scheduled for 2018, Cage Warriors are providing huge platforms for the new influx of talent to showcase their skills to audiences throughout the UK and Ireland as well as worldwide.

“Our mission has stayed the same since we began – to become the home for Europe’s top fighting talent, and provide a platform for them to develop their careers. We’re delighted to offer that chance to a new crop of names that we’ve had our eyes on for a while. A Cage Warriors contract is a valuable and lucrative asset to a fighter’s career, and with our roster getting stronger by the day, we will only be offering contracts to the best.”- Cage Warriors President Graham Boylan
The 11 fighters signed:

Tim Barnett
Dylan Tuke
Ed Arthur
Adam Aramasinghe
Jason Radcliffe
Corrin Eaton
Mario Saeed
Steve Aimable
Anthony O’Connor
Mick Stanton
Lewis Monarch