Cage Rage 14: Punishment 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 December 3, 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 event was televised on Sky Sports

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 in the United Kingdom.

The card was headlined by a title fight between Cage Rage World Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva

Anderson Silva

Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion and the promotion's longest reigning champion. With 14 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest winning streak and title defense streak in UFC history...

 and challenger Curtis Stout. Also on the card was a fight between former UFC Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort

Vitor Belfort

Vítor Vieira Belfort is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Belfort was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family, namely Carlson Gracie. He received a black belt under Carlson and currently trains with Xtreme Couture, fighting in...

 and France's 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,...

, and veterans Akira Shoji and 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...

 met in a middleweight bout.

Results

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Mark Buchanan vs.   Ryan White

White defeated Buchanan via TKO (punches) at 3:11 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   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...
  
   vs.   Joey van Wanrooij

Daley defeated van Wanrooij via unanimous decision.

• Lightweight bout:   Gesias Cavalcante vs.   Michihiro Omigawa
  Michihiro Omigawa
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist and Judoka who trains out of Hidehiko Yoshida's dojo. He made it to the finals in the Sengoku Featherweight Grand Prix losing to Masanori Kanehara.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  

Cavalcante defeated Omigawa via KO (punches) at 0:49 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Darren Guisha vs.   Ross Mason

Mason defeated Guisha via TKO (punches) at 2:16 of round 2.

• Welterweight bout:   Dean Bray vs.   Nigel Whitear

Whitear defeated Bray via submission (armbar) at 3:56 of round 1.

• Featherweight bout:   Chris Freeborn 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....
  
  

Olivier defeated Freeborn via unanimous decision.

• 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.   Alan Murdock

Murdock defeated Legeno via submission (armbar) at 4:07 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Xavier Foupa-Pokam
  Xavier Foupa-Pokam
  Xavier Foupa-Pokam is a French mixed martial artist from Paris. Foupa-Pokam is best known for his brief career in the Ultimate Fighting Championships in their middleweight division, and his long career in British MMA with promotions such as BAMMA and Cage Rage...
  
   vs.   Sol Gilbert

Gilbert wins as Foupa-Pokam is disqualified at 1:10 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.   Marc Goddard

Berry defeated Goddard via submission (guillotine choke) at 1:01 of round 1.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Brian Adams vs.   Mark Epstein

Epstein defeated Adams via KO (punch) at 0:19 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Matt Lindland
  Matt Lindland
  Matthew James Lindland is an American mixed martial artist, Olympic wrestler and politician. He won the Oregon Republican Party's nomination for the Oregon House of Representatives, District 52 seat on May 20, 2008....
  
   vs.   Antonio Schembri

Lindland defeated Schembri via TKO (punches) at 3:33 of round 3.

• 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.   Alex Reid

Draw.

• Middleweight bout:   Akira Shoji vs.   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...
  
  

Weir defeated Shoji via KO (head kick) at 0:17 of round 1.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Vitor Belfort
  Vitor Belfort
  Vítor Vieira Belfort is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Belfort was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family, namely Carlson Gracie. He received a black belt under Carlson and currently trains with Xtreme Couture, fighting in...
  
   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,...
  
  

Belfort defeated Rea via KO (punches) at 1:30 of round 2.

• World Middleweight Championship:   Anderson Silva
  Anderson Silva
  Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion and the promotion's longest reigning champion. With 14 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest winning streak and title defense streak in UFC history...
  
   (c) vs.   Curtis Stout

Silva defeated Stout via KO (punches) at 4:59 of round 1 to retain the Cage Rage World Middleweight Championship.