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Cage Rage 20: Born 2 Fight was a mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 event held by the Cage Rage Championships on February 10, 2007 at the Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium.-History:...

 in London
London
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, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It was televised on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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.

The event was headlined by Eric "Butterbean" Esch
Eric Esch
Eric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....

 vs James Thompson
James Thompson (fighter)
James Thompson is an English mixed martial artist. He fights as a heavyweight and has appeared in such promotions as Elite Xtreme Combat , Pride Fighting Championship, and Cage Rage. He is known for rushing his opponents at the start of the bout.-Biography:James Thompson grew up in Rochdale,...

 in a Super Heavyweight
Super Heavyweight (MMA)
The super heavyweight division in mixed martial arts has no weight limit but generally refers to competitors weighing above 265 lb .Across Europe and Asia, there are numerous promotions that feature open-weight competitions that can qualify as super heavyweight bouts.One such example is in Japan,...

 bout, and also featured Rob Broughton
Rob Broughton
Rob Broughton is an English mixed martial artist who competes as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former Cage Rage British heavyweight champion.-Background:...

 and Tengiz Tedoradze fighting for the vacant Cage Rage British Heavyweight Championship, and Masakazu Imanari
Masakazu Imanari
is a Japanese mixed martial artist best known for his leglocks. He fights out of Team Roken in Kanagawa, Japan. He currently has a professional MMA record of 24–9–2 with notable victories over Danny Batten, Jorge Gurgel, Mike Brown, Robbie Olivier, Jean Silva and Yoshiro Maeda. He is a veteran...

 taking on British Featherweight Champ Robbie Olivier
Robbie Olivier
Robbie Olivier is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2002, Oliver has spent almost his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....

 for the World Featherweight Championship. MMA pioneers Dan Severn
Dan Severn
Daniel DeWayne Severn is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, notable for his success in the early years of Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments. Severn has fought and wrestled for many mixed martial arts and professional wrestling promotions, including King of the...

 and Mark Kerr also featured on the card.

Results

  • Welterweight bout:   Lee Doski vs. Francis Heagney
Heagney defeated Doski via submission (Kimura) at 2:50 of round 2.
  • Welterweight bout:   Jason Barrett vs.   Jacek Toczydlowski
Toczydlowski defeated Barrett via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 4:04 of round 1.
  • Featherweight bout:   Ashleigh Grimshaw
    Ashleigh Grimshaw
    Ashleigh Grimshaw is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Grimshaw has spent his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....

     vs.   Ronnie Mann
    Ronnie Mann
    Ronnie Mann is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Mann has mostly fought in England and Japan....

Mann defeated Grimshaw via unanimous decision.
  • Welterweight bout:   Damien Riccio vs. Marius Žaromskis
    Marius Žaromskis
    Marius Žaromskis is a Lithuanian welterweight mixed martial artist. After fighting the majority of his career for British promotion Cage Rage, he signed with DREAM in 2009 and then, later that year, with Strikeforce. With DREAM, Žaromskis won their 2009 Welterweight Grand Prix and became their...

Žaromskis defeated Riccio via TKO (cut) at 4:30 of round 3.
  • World Featherweight Championship:   Masakazu Imanari
    Masakazu Imanari
    is a Japanese mixed martial artist best known for his leglocks. He fights out of Team Roken in Kanagawa, Japan. He currently has a professional MMA record of 24–9–2 with notable victories over Danny Batten, Jorge Gurgel, Mike Brown, Robbie Olivier, Jean Silva and Yoshiro Maeda. He is a veteran...

     vs.   Robbie Olivier
    Robbie Olivier
    Robbie Olivier is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2002, Oliver has spent almost his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....

Imanari defeated Olivier via submission (flying armbar) at 0:27 of round 1 to become the new the Cage Rage World Featherweight Champion.
  • Heavyweight bout:   Tom Blackledge
    Tom Blackledge
    Tom Blackledge is an English mixed martial artist. He trains at Wolfslair MMA Academy in Liverpool, England. Blackledge is a Cage Rage veteran and was a coach on The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights.-Early career:...

     vs.   Tom Howard
Blackledge defeated Howard via KO (head kick) at 0:40 of round 1.
  • Heavyweight bout:   Robert Berry
    Robert Berry (fighter)
    Robert "Buzz" Berry is a retired English mixed martial artist. He formerly competed in the Heavyweight division and is a Cage Rage veteran.-Career:...

     vs.   Mark Buchanan
Berry defeated Buchanan via submission (punches) at 2:18 of round 1.
  • Middleweight bout:   Daijiro Matsui
    Daijiro Matsui
    Daijiro Matsui is a Japanese mixed martial artist who competes in the light heavyweight division. He has fought in a number of organizations including the Pride Fighting Championships and the Cage Rage Championships.-Career:...

     vs.   Tom Watson
    Tom Watson (fighter)
    Tom "Kong" Watson is an English mixed martial artist, currently fighting at middleweight and training at Tristar Gym in Montreal, Canada and Jackson's Submission Fighting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is known for his unorthodox entrances, dancing to the ring in a gorilla mask...

Matsui defeated Watson via submission (armbar) at 0:59 of round 1.
  • Heavyweight bout:   Dave Legeno
    Dave Legeno
    David "Dave" Legeno is an English actor, boxer and mixed martial artist.-Life and career:Legeno was born in Marylebone, London, England. He has been quoted as saying that he wanted to act since he read Shakespeare's Richard III...

     vs.   Dan Severn
    Dan Severn
    Daniel DeWayne Severn is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, notable for his success in the early years of Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments. Severn has fought and wrestled for many mixed martial arts and professional wrestling promotions, including King of the...

Legeno defeated Severn via unanimous decision.
  • British Heavyweight Championship:   Rob Broughton
    Rob Broughton
    Rob Broughton is an English mixed martial artist who competes as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former Cage Rage British heavyweight champion.-Background:...

     vs.   Tengiz Tedoradze
Tedoradze defeated Broughton via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 0:58 of round 2 to become the new Cage Rage British Heavyweight Champion.
  • Heavyweight bout:   Mostapha Al-turk
    Mostapha Al-turk
    Mostapha al-Turk is a retired Lebanese-born English mixed martial artist and submission wrestler. He has trained with London Shootfighters for the past ten years. Turk was the ADCC European Champion in 2005 and was the British Cage Rage Heavyweight Champion, before relinquishing his title to sign...

     vs.   Mark Kerr
Al-turk defeated Kerr via submission (punches) at 2:29 of round 1.
  • Super Heavyweight bout:   Eric "Butterbean" Esch
    Eric Esch
    Eric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....

     vs.   James Thompson
    James Thompson (fighter)
    James Thompson is an English mixed martial artist. He fights as a heavyweight and has appeared in such promotions as Elite Xtreme Combat , Pride Fighting Championship, and Cage Rage. He is known for rushing his opponents at the start of the bout.-Biography:James Thompson grew up in Rochdale,...

Esch defeated Thompson via KO (punches) at 0:43 of round 1.
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