BAMMA is proud to announce BAMMA 25 at the Barclaycard Arena Birmingham, on Saturday 14th May 2016. The first bout to be announced is the Welterweight battle between crowd favourite Colin 'Freakshow' Fletcher and Walter 'The Sniper' Gahadza. Also, the long awaited showdown between bitter rivals Marc 'Bonecrusher' Diakiese and Kane 'Black Bane' Mousah. With the main event & title fights soon to be added with a full supporting undercard, BAMMA 25 is set to be one of the biggest MMA events of the year.
Not sure, Fletcher is crafty in the scrambles yet seems to get lulled into these slugfests where he gets outpointed. Gahadza, as good as he's looked has had a long lay off and doesn't have anybody on his record as renowned as Fletcher.
Fletcher is also booked to fight John Maguire (ex-ufc) in M4TC this summer.
135 World Championship Shay Walsh [c] (13-4) vs. Tom Duquesnoy (12-1)
Shay Walsh is currently the UKs #3 ranked 135er on a 4 fight winning streak over some decent names however he will be defending his belt against arguably the best prospect outside of the UFC. This is probably the best fight at 135 you'll find in Europe anytime soon.
155 World Championship Martin Stapleton [c] (17-4) vs. Damien Lapilus (12-5)
Ex-TUF and Bellator fighter "Stapes" probably needs little introduction however his recent string of performances in BAMMA have seen him pushed to the forefront of the UK rankings and he could easily be BAMMA's new Tom Watson in that he can lead BAMMA from the front and become the face of the promotion. Lapilus is a crafty vet with a fast and excellent upset win over Jack McGann, Stapelton will be the favourite but he can't afford to make any mistakes here.
265 World and British Championship Mark Godbeer [c] (10-2) vs. Stuart Austin [c] (10-2)
BAMMA world champion takes on the BAMMA UK champion, both are Bellator veterans and among the top ranked UK 265ers around, once again this is as good of a HW fight you're likely to see in Europe anytime soon.
170 Exhibition Colin Fletcher (12-5) vs. Walter Gahadza (15-0)
Arguably the UK biggest "unsigned" prospect pitted against one of it's top veterans, Fletcher will be without a doubt the toughest test of Gahadza's career and do not be surprised if Fletcher can pull off a sneaky choke here, either way a win for either man can bump them to the top of the 170 rankings.
155 British Championship Marc Diakese [c] (8-0) vs. Kane Mousah (7-0)
Two highly touted undefeated fighters with alot to lose here, the winner could be Stapleton's next opponent (providing he wins of course) and a win against him can lead to a call from the big boys.
I'd feel confident in saying under different circumstances any one of these fights could headline any show in the UK, so to have 5 fights of this caliber in one night really deserves applause, BAMMA have led the UK scene more or less since their inception (with Cage Warriors) however this level of show hopefully gets alot of eyes on it because if you are interested in seeing where the next UFC guys come from you need to be watching this.
MMAF is also our websites initials, so it's almost like we get free promotion too
Awesome news. This card is looking like it'll be cracking now. Building up my "BAMMA catalogue" now. Thinking of watching them all together one night. A shame that Bravo went down cause that was the perfect station for BAMMA originally.
Nice work on the digital stream. Living in Aus it's impossible for me to catch the BAMMA cards resorting to dodgy streams and BAMMA 25 is one I definitely want to watch.
+Walsh-Duquesnoy: Duquesnoy by strikes in the 2nd round to become the new 135 Champion.
+Stapleton-Lapilus: Stapleton to Submit Lapilus in the 2nd or 3rd round, probably by choke.
+Godbeer-Austin: Tough call but will side with Godbeer by strikes in the 2nd. Austin has shown durability in previous fights though and can be dangerous off his back.
+Fletcher-Gahadza:Fletcher by choke in the 3rd. I think Gahadza has some advantages on the feet and this will show at the start, I'd expect the fight to hit the ground later on where Fletcher should have an advantage.
+Diakiese-Mousah:Diakiese by UD. Close contest with Diakiese perhaps having a slight edge in the grappling.
Marc Diakiese took a huge step forward in the prospect stakes tonight, first round one punch KO against an undefeated opponent. If Bellator are smart they'll get him on the London card!
Seriously? I don't want to call Gahadza a pssy but three elbows to the back of the head ends the fight? What would he have done if he was fighting 20 years ago? He'd likely die.
He seemed fine and seemed to be still trying to complete the takedown before the ref separated them.
EDIT: Godbeer looks alright here but a higher calibre of opponent will definitely be able to capitalize on a lot of these mistakes. I was just typing "Austin needs to have a good push here and make Godbeer respect him" and that second Godbeer gets the KO haha. Nice finish.
EDIT 2: Since they took him on, I always liked afro-Haye's comments on the fight. It makes it "legitimate" to a lot of people that one of the top boxers in the world are commenting on proceedings. Unfortunately Haye isn't half as good as he should be (Just go and knock Fury out ya knob) but none the less, I like it.
Seriously? I don't want to call Gahadza a pssy but three elbows to the back of the head ends the fight? What would he have done if he was fighting 20 years ago? He'd likely die.
He seemed fine and seemed to be still trying to complete the takedown before the ref separated them.
EDIT: Godbeer looks alright here but a higher calibre of opponent will definitely be able to capitalize on a lot of these mistakes. I was just typing "Austin needs to have a good push here and make Godbeer respect him" and that second Godbeer gets the KO haha. Nice finish.
Yeah, sad for Fletcher really, Gahadza would have been a great scalp and I fancied him to take it, hopefully they rematch them.
Godbeer got stopped by Kongo in Bellator, he's unlikely to ever face that level of opponent in Europe though, he'll do fine fighting outside of Bellator/UFC.
He fights James Mulheron (top ranked uk hw) at Bellator London, that's a nice winnable fight for him.
Tom Duquenoy (sp) is in the group with Rustam Khabilov, Conor McGregor, Che Mills, Michael Page and one or two more people in my old "Team CBB 2013" sig. Surprised it's taken Tom so long to make it.
Weird finish, was that an elbow?
Yep, it was. Tom looked like he had so much time to see that opening and then land the strike. Almost a horrendous knockout but luckily Shay flattened before his head proper hit the ground. Beautiful stuff though.
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