Cage Rage 25
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EliteXC Presents Cage Rage 25: Bring it On 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 co-promoted by England's Cage Rage Championships and the United States' Elite Xtreme Combat
Elite Xtreme Combat
Elite Xtreme Combat, also known as EliteXC, was a U.S.-based mixed martial arts organization owned and operated by ProElite. It was founded as a partnership between Showtime Networks and ProElite and officially announced on December 14, 2006. It was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.The...

 that took place on Saturday, March 8, 2008 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
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, 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...

. The event was televised on Sky Sports
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

 in the United Kingdom, and Showtime in the United States.

The main event featured the return of Ken Shamrock
Ken Shamrock
Kenneth Wayne Shamrock is an American mixed martial arts fighter, UFC Hall of Famer and professional wrestler...

 to MMA action, his first fight since leaving the UFC
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

, as he took on 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:...

. Cage Rage World Featherweight Champion 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...

 took on Jean Silva
Jean Silva
Jean "White Bear" Silva is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He held the Cage Rage lightweight title until he lost it to Vitor Ribeiro via arm triangle choke at Cage Rage 13...

 in the co-main event, and the card also featured Ken Shamrock's son, Ryan Shamrock.

Preliminary card

  • Middleweight bout:   Jake Bostwick vs.   John Phillips
    John Phillips (fighter)
    John Phillips is a Welsh mixed martial artist, who fights at middleweight. He is a veteran of British MMA, having fought in Cage Rage and BAMMA.-Background:...

Phillips defeated Bostwick via TKO (punches) at 4:10 of round 1. Later ruled a no contest.
  • Middleweight bout:   Marvin Arnold Bleau vs.   John Hathaway
    John Hathaway
    John Hathaway is an English mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the welterweight division. He made his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut by defeating Tom Egan at UFC 93 and holds notable Octagon victories over Rick Story, Paul Taylor and Diego Sanchez...

Hathaway defeated Bleau via TKO (punches) at 1:32 of round 1.
  • Featherweight bout:   Giorgio Andrews
    Giorgio Andrews
    Giorgio Andrews is an English mixed martial artist, who competes in the bantamweight division. He is currently the UCMMA Bantamweight Champion.-Mixed martial arts career:...

     vs.   Ryan Shamrock
Andrews defeated Shamrock via TKO (doctor toppage) at 5:00 of round 1.
  • Women's Flyweight bout:   Aysen Berik vs. Aisling Daly
    Aisling Daly
    Aisling Daly is an Irish female professional mixed martial artist who competes in the women's flyweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Daly has mostly fought in England and Ireland....

Daly defeated Berik via KO (corner toppage) at 1:49 of round 1.
  • Welterweight bout:   Michael Johnson
    Michael Johnson (fighter)
    Michael Johnson is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Johnson mostly competed in his regional circuit, before signing onto the Ultimate Fighting Championship circuit to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs...

     vs.   Henrique Santana
Santana defeated Johnson via unanimous decision.
  • Heavyweight bout:   Ivan Serati
    Ivan Serati
    Ivan Serati is an Italian mixed martial artist, Serati previously fought for promotons UWC and Cage Rage. He has a current record of 11 wins and 3 losses. Serati fights in the Heavyweight and light-heavyweight divisions. He has won nine times within the first round of the fight by either TKO or...

     vs.   Roman Webber
Serati defeated Webber via TKO (punches) at 0:48 of round 1.
  • 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.   Gary Turner
    Gary Turner
    Gary "Two Horns" Turner is an English professional kickboxer and mixed martial artist who fought in the Cage Rage and K-1 promotions. Turner was the K-1 UK Grand Prix champion in 2003 and 2004...

Al-turk defeated Turner via submission (punches) at 3:19 of round 1.

Main card

  • Middleweight bout:   Pierre Guillet 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...

Watson defeated Guillet via KO (upkick) at 2:05 of round 1.
  • Heavyweight bout:   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.   Neil Grove
    Neil Grove
    Neil Grove is a South African-born English heavyweight mixed martial artist currently signed with Bellator Fighting Championships. He holds a black belt rank of shodan in Gōjū-ryū karate...

Broughton defeated Grove via majority decision.
  • 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...

     (c) vs.   Jean Silva
    Jean Silva
    Jean "White Bear" Silva is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. He held the Cage Rage lightweight title until he lost it to Vitor Ribeiro via arm triangle choke at Cage Rage 13...

Imanari defeated Silva via submission (heel hook) at 2:30 of round 1 to retain the Cage Rage World Featherweight Championship.
  • 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.   Ken Shamrock
    Ken Shamrock
    Kenneth Wayne Shamrock is an American mixed martial arts fighter, UFC Hall of Famer and professional wrestler...

Berry defeated Shamrock via TKO (punches) at 3:26 of round 1.
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