BAMMA 8: Manuwa vs Rea is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA)

BAMMA

The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. It is considered by many as the biggest MMA promotion in the country. It premièred on June 27, 2009 and was shown on the television channel Bravo...

  on December 10, 2011, at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

, 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...

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Background

This event was meant to hold the BAMMA debut of Nate Marquardt, but it has been pushed back to 2012 and will be against Yoshiyuki Yoshida

Yoshiyuki Yoshida

is a Japanese mixed martial artist competing in the welterweight division. A student of former Shooto competitor Noboru Asahi, he has competed in Shooto, Cage Force, and the UFC...

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Marquardt has shown his desire for his opponent to be UFC, Cage Rage

Cage Rage

Cage Rage Championships, also known as Cage Rage, was a United Kingdom-based, mixed martial arts promotion that premiered on 7 September 2002 in London. Cage Rage went bankrupt and is now no longer trading...

, Strikeforce

Strikeforce

Strikeforce is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts and kickboxing organization based in San Jose, California. It is headed by CEO Scott Coker and owned by Zuffa, LLC...

 and BAMMA

BAMMA

The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. It is considered by many as the biggest MMA promotion in the country. It premièred on June 27, 2009 and was shown on the television channel Bravo...

 veteran Paul Daley

Paul Daley

Paul Daley is an English professional mixed martial artist who has fought for EliteXC, Cage Rage, Strikeforce, BAMMA, Maximum Fighting Championship, Cage Warriors, Shark Fights, Impact FC, Pancrase and the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

. Daley, however, later decided not to take the fight, citing that between having already competed 5 times in 2011 from October 21 and being such a high stakes fight, it was in his best interest to look have his next fight in 2012 so he can rest up and work out a gameplan against Marquardt.

UCMMA Light Heavyweight Champion Jimi 'Poster Boy' Manuwa

Jimi Manuwa

Jimi Manuwa is an English mixed martial artist, who competes in the light heavyweight division. He is currently signed to BAMMA.-Early Life:...

 has signed a four fight deal with BAMMA and will make his promotional debut on this show.

UFC Hall of Fame member and MMA legend Randy Couture

Randy Couture

Randy Duane Couture is a retired American mixed martial artist, Greco-Roman wrestler, actor, a three-time former heavyweight champion, two-time former light-heavyweight champion, former interim light heavyweight champion and UFC 13 tournament winner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

 will be appearing at BAMMA 8 to meet fans and sign copies of his new book 'The Last Round'.

Andre Winner

Andre Winner

Andre Winner is an English professional mixed martial artist. He was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom, reaching the final. Winner is also a member of Team Rough House. He holds notable wins over Jeff Lawson, Rolando Delgado and Rafaello...

 was slated to fight Niko Puhakka

Niko Puhakka

Niko Puhakka is a Finnish mixed martial artist, who competes in the lightweight division. He has fought around the world in a number of promotions including KSW and M-1 Global. He is known for having numerous neo-Nazi tattoos.-Career:...

 in a lightweight title eliminator. However Puhakka was pulled from the card when it became known that he is a Nazi sympathetic-er, as he wears Nazi inspired tattoos over his body. Puhakka has been replaced by Diego Gonzalez.

Main card

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Jimi Manuwa
  Jimi Manuwa
  Jimi Manuwa is an English mixed martial artist, who competes in the light heavyweight division. He is currently signed to BAMMA.-Early Life:...
  
   vs   Antony Rea
  Antony Rea
  Antony Rea is an French professional mixed martial artist. Antony is a Cage Rage veteran and has fought for Shooto, bodogFIGHT and Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki. He is notable for his fights with Ultimate Fighting Championship contenders Vitor Belfort, Marvin Eastman, Jason MacDonald, Kazuo Takahashi,...
  
  

• Welterweight bout:   Jim Wallhead
  Jim Wallhead
  Jim Wallhead is an English professional mixed martial artist, based in Leicestershire, England, who competes in the welterweight division. Wallhead's background is in Judo, where he holds a Black Belt having trained under Olympic silver medallist Neil Adams...
  
   vs   Joey Villaseñor
  Joey Villasenor
  Joey Villaseñor is a Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter. He is a PRIDE Fighting Championships veteran, as well as the middleweight champion in King of the Cage. Joey has also fought in Showtime's EliteXC promotion and took part in PRIDE's welterweight grand prix. He currently trains...
  
  

• World Lightweight Title Eliminator:   Andre Winner
  Andre Winner
  Andre Winner is an English professional mixed martial artist. He was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom, reaching the final. Winner is also a member of Team Rough House. He holds notable wins over Jeff Lawson, Rolando Delgado and Rafaello...
  
   vs   Diego Gonzalez

• Bantamweight bout:   Paul McVeigh
  Paul McVeigh (fighter)
  Paul McVeigh is an Irish mixed martial artist, fighting out of Glasgow, Scotland. He grew up in Drumaness, Northern Ireland before later moving to Glasgow, Scotland...
  
   vs   Erik Perez

Preliminary card

• British Middleweight Title:   Jack Marshman
  Jack Marshman
  Jack Marshman is a Welsh mixed martial artist, who fights at middleweight. He is the first and current BAMMA British Middleweight Champion. He is also a member of the British Army.-Military Service:...
  
   vs   Lee Barnes

• Lightweight bout:   Curt Warburton vs   Tim Newman

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Jason Jones
  Jason Jones (fighter)
  Jason Jones is a Dutch professional mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights for United Glory.-MMA career:Jones made his professional MMA debut in May 2004 against Matt Hershberger, where he won by guillotine choke in just 21 seconds...
  
   vs   Mark Godbeer

• Welterweight bout:   Dean Amasinger vs   Danny Mitchell

• Lightweight bout:   Colin Fletcher vs   David Round

• Welterweight bout:   Tom Breese vs   Qasim Shafiq

• Welterweight bout:   Christian Holley vs   Lee Taylor

• Bantamweight bout:   Brent Crawley vs   Mark Platts

• Flyweight bout:   Brian Hyslop vs   Ian Malone