Cage Rage 13: No Fear 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 September 10, 2005 at the Wembley Conference Centre

Wembley Conference Centre

Wembley Conference Centre was a conference centre near Wembley Stadium, Wembley, in London, England.-History:Opened in 1977, it was the first purpose built Conference Centre in the UK. Events included conferences, corporate hospitality, annual general meetings, banquets and sports events including...

 in London

London

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, England

England

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The card was headlined by a title fight between Vitor Ribeiro and 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...

. Also on the card was a fight between Brad Pickett

Brad Pickett

Brad Pickett is an English mixed martial artist and the former Cage Rage British Featherweight champion and Ultimate Challenge MMA Featherweight Champion. He currently competes as a Bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

 and Ozzy Haluk for the vacant British Featherweight Championship, and Melvin Manhoef

Melvin Manhoef

Melvin Manhoef is a Dutch-Surinamese Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist, trained by Mike Passenier and fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In kickboxing, he is the current It's Showtime 85MAX World Champion, and in MMA he was the Cage Rage Light Heavyweight World champion...

 and Fabio Piamonte met for the vacant World Light Heavyweight Championship.

This was also the first event to introduce the 'Open Guard' rule for Cage Rage, which meant that a standing/upper ground fighter can knee, kick, stomp and elbow the head of a bottom ground opponent to prevent stalling on the ground.

Results

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Mark Buchanan vs.   Kuljit Degun

Buchanan defeated Degun via Submission (punches) at 1:38 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   James Evans-Nicolle vs.   Tulio Palhares

Nicolle defeated Palhares via THO (punches) at 1:37 of round 2.

• British Lightweight Championship:   Abdul Mohamed
  Abdul Mohamed
  Abdul Mohamed is an Afghan-English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight and welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Mohamed has starred in the domestic organisations, winning the Cage Rage British Lightweight Championship, as well as competing...
  
   vs.   Alexandre Izidro
  Alexandre Izidro
  Alexandre "Xandinho" Izidro is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He started to train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at age 14 and got his black belt at 20. He is a member of Brazilian Top Team and competes in the Lightweight division...
  
  

Mohamed defeated Izidro via Unanimous Decision to become the first British Lightweight Champion.

• Welterweight bout:   Dean Bray vs.   Jeremy Bailey

Bray defeated Bailey via TKO (Cut) at 4:31 of round 1.

• British Featherweight Championship:   Brad Pickett
  Brad Pickett
  Brad Pickett is an English mixed martial artist and the former Cage Rage British Featherweight champion and Ultimate Challenge MMA Featherweight Champion. He currently competes as a Bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
   vs.   Ozzy Haluk

Pickett defeated Haluk via TKO (flying stomp) at 4:25 of round 2 to win the vacant British Featherweight Championship.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   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,...
  
   vs.   Remus Ciobnu

Rea defeated Ciobnu via Submission (rear naked choke) at 4:40 of round 1.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Evangelista Santos
  Evangelista Santos
  Evangelista Santos is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who is a member of the famous Chute Boxe Academy. He has fought in Strikeforce, Pride Fighting Championship, Cage Rage, International Vale Tudo Championships and Pancrase. He is currently fighting for World Victory Road and Strikeforce...
  
   vs.   Darren Little

Santos defeated Little via TKO (corner stoppage) at 0:55 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Jorge Rivera
  Jorge Rivera
  Jorge Rivera is a basketball player from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He plays in Puerto Rico on the BSN for the Santurce Crabbers and was a member of the 2004 Puerto Rican National Basketball Team that competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics.-References:...
  
   vs.   Marcelo Azevedo

Rivera defeated Azevedo via Unanimous Decision.

• Middleweight bout:   Mark Weir
  Mark Weir
  Mark Anthony Weir is an English mixed martial artist usually fighting in the middleweight division at 185 lbs. He has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Pride Fighting Championships, and is the former Cage Rage British middleweight champion- Biography :Mark Weir lives in...
  
   vs.   Kyosuke Sasakid

Weir defeated Sasakid via KO (punches) at 1:52 of round 1.

• World Light Heavyweight Championship:   Melvin Manhoef
  Melvin Manhoef
  Melvin Manhoef is a Dutch-Surinamese Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist, trained by Mike Passenier and fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In kickboxing, he is the current It's Showtime 85MAX World Champion, and in MMA he was the Cage Rage Light Heavyweight World champion...
  
   vs.   Fabio Piamonte

Manhoef defeated Piamonte via KO (punches) at 0:51 of round 1 to win the vacant World Light Heavyweight cahmpionship.

• Heavyweight bout:   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,...
  
   vs.   Andy Costello

Thompson defeated Costello via TKO (punches) at 2:33 of round 1.

• World Lightweight Championship:   Vitor Ribeiro 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...
  
  (c)

Riberiro defeated Silva via Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke) at 4:18 of round 2 to win the World Lightweight Championship.