Cage Rage 15: Adrenalin Rush 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 4, 2006 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

Sky Sports

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 in the United Kingdom.

The event was headlined by a Cage Rage World Light Heavyweight title fight between Dutch kickboxer 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 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Evangelista "Cyborg" 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...

. Another three title fights also featured on the card as Chris Lytle

Chris Lytle

Chris Scott Lytle is a retired American mixed martial artist, boxer and a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Lytle was prominently featured as a welterweight on The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback. In Chris's MMA and boxing career he was never knocked out or submitted, though he did...

 and Ross Mason fought for the vacant Cage Rage World Welterweight Championship, British Featherweight Champion 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...

 looked to defend his title against 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....

, and 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:...

 and Tengiz Tedoradze faced off for the vacant British Heavyweight Championship.

Results

• Welterweight bout: Mindaugas Arbocius vs.   Jason Barrett

Barrett defeated Arbocius via TKO (punches) at 1:11 of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Zelg Galešić
  Zelg Galesic
  Zelg Galešić is a Croatian mixed martial artist, currently fighting in Bellator Fighting Championships. He has previously fought in Cage Rage, PRIDE, DREAM, and Hero's...
  
   vs.   Michael Holmes

Galešić defeated Holmes via TKO (punches) at 1:41 of round 1.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Brian Adams vs.   Ryan Robinson

Robinson defeated Adams via submission (armbar) at 1:05 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Sami Berik
  Sami Berik
  Sami Berik is a Turkish professional mixed martial artist who is a Cage Rage veteran, and has competed in the Cage Rage Contenders series. Berik has fought current Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters Dan Hardy, Terry Etim, and Ross Pearson...
  
   vs.   Sol Gilbert

Gilbert defeated Berik via KO (punch) at 1:05 of round 2.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Mark Epstein vs.   Darren Little

Epstein defeated Little via TKO (strikes) at 1:26 of round 1.

• British Heavyweight Championship:   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.   Tengiz Tedoradze

Tedoradze defeated Berry via TKO (strikes) at 1:53 of round 1 to become the first Cage Rage British Heavyweight Champion.

• British Featherweight Championship:   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....
  
   vs.   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...
  
   (c)

Pickett defeated Olivier via majority decision after three rounds to retain the Cage Rage British Featherweight Championship.

• World Welterweight Championship:   Chris Lytle
  Chris Lytle
  Chris Scott Lytle is a retired American mixed martial artist, boxer and a veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Lytle was prominently featured as a welterweight on The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback. In Chris's MMA and boxing career he was never knocked out or submitted, though he did...
  
   vs.   Ross Mason

Lytle defeated Mason via submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:57 of round 2 to become the new Cage Rage World Welterweight Champion.

• 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.   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...
  
  

Silva defeated Daley via TKO (dislocated thumb) at 4:40 of round 2.

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Jason DeLucia
  Jason DeLucia
  Jason DeLucia is a retired American mixed martial artist. . He holds victories over Masakatsu Funaki, Matt Hume, Minoru Suzuki, Yuki Kondo, Ikuhisa Minowa, Kiuma Kunioku, Chris Lytle, and Manabu Yamada...
  
   vs.   Fabio Piamonte

Piamonte defeated Delucia via submission (triangle/armbar) at 1:04 of round 1.

• Welterweight bout:   Jose Landi-Jons
  Jose Landi-Jons
  José "Pelé" Landi-Jons is a Cuban-Brazilian mixed martial artist and vale tudo fighter known for his eccentric attitude and exciting style of fighting. Pelé's style is primarily Muay Thai, but he also practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in which he holds a black belt. Pelé was born in Cuba and at the...
  
   vs.   Travis Lutter
  Travis Lutter
  Travis S. Lutter is an American mixed martial artist who won the The Ultimate Fighter 4 reality show. His UFC record, not including his exhibition wins on The Ultimate Fighter 4, is 2–4...
  
  

Lutter defeated Landi-Jons via submission (armbar) at 4:00 of round 1.

• Light 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.   Minowaman
  Ikuhisa Minowa
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist and pro wrestler currently competing in Dream as . He was a long time veteran of Pride Fighting Championships and Pancrase and has also competed in other mixed martial arts promotions such as K-1 HERO'S, Cage Rage, UFC, and DEEP. At 5'9" he is notable for taking...
  
  

Minowaman defeated Legeno via submission (achilles lock) at 2:21 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.   Curtis Stout

Matsui defeated Stout via majority decision after three rounds.

• 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...
  
   (c) vs.   Evangelista "Cyborg" 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...
  
  

Manhoef defeated Santos via KO (punches) at 3:51 of round 2 to retain the Cage Rage World Light Heavyweight Championship.