Paul Reed (fighter) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Paul Reed is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

mixed martial artist

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...

, who competes in the featherweight

Featherweight (MMA)

The featherweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*UFC's & Pancrase's featherweight division, which groups competitors within 136 to 145 lb...

division. He is a veteran of British MMA, having fought in the Cage Rage Championships and the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts

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...

Biography and career

Reed was born in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

and took up boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

at the age of 15 to keep him out of trouble.

He made his professional mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

debut in 2006 at the age of 35, and won his first seven fights, including a victory over Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt 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...

. His first loss came in March 2008 when he was submitted by Emmanuel Fernandez but he was still given the chance to fight in the Cage Rage Championships, the UK's biggest promotion at the time, in his next fight. He took on former 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...

at Cage Rage 26: Extreme
Cage Rage 26
Cage Rage 26: Extreme was a mixed martial arts event held by the Cage Rage Championships on May 10, 2008 at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England...

and lost by majority decision. He outboxed Pickett for the majority of the fight, but was dominated on the ground.

After this, he notched up a record of 5 wins and two losses over the next two years. In February 2010, he fought Germany's Alan Omer for the vacant BAMMA

BAMMA

Featherweight Championship at BAMMA 2: Roundhouses at the Roundhouse
BAMMA 2
BAMMA 2: OMER vs. REED was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on February 13, 2010 at The Roundhouse in London, England. The event was televised on Bravo in the United Kingdom....

. The first three rounds saw Reed dominate Omer on the ground. Things changed dramatically in the fourth round, however, as Omer synched in a triangle choke for the submission win. He returned at BAMMA 3: Horwich vs. Watson
BAMMA 3
BAMMA 3: WATSON vs. HORWICH was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on May 15, 2010 at the LG Arena in Birmingham, England. It featured three title fights, and was headlined by Matt Horwich and Tom Watson...

against Ashleigh Grimshaw. Grimshaw was able to knock Reed out in the second round.

Mixed martial arts record

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|Win
|align=center|18-9-1
|Craig Allen
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| Titan Fight Night
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|Bristol, England
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|Win
|align=center|17-9-1
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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

, 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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|Loss
|align=center|16-9-1
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Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

|| For The Zone FC Featherweight Title
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|Win
|align=center|16-8-1
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Akira Corassani

Hamid Akira Corassani is a Swedish professional mixed martial arts fighter. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Corassani has made a name for himself fighting mainly in Western Europe. He is a competitor on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs...

Gothenburg

, Sweden

Sweden

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|Loss
|align=center|15-8-1
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Artur Sowiński
| TKO (punches)
| KSW Extra 2

KSW Extra 2

KSW Extra 2: President Cup was a mixed martial arts event held on 29 January 2011 by the Polish promotion Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki in Poland in Ełk, Poland...

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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|Win
|align=center| 15-7-1
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Simon Neale
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| Cage Wars

Cage Wars

The Cage Wars Championship is a UK-based mixed martial arts promotion started in 1999 to promote and teach the sport of MMA in the UK and Ireland...

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

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| Draw
|align=center| 14-7-1
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Stirling

Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth...

, Scotland

Scotland

||For the SFC Featherweight Championship.
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|Loss
|align=center| 14-7
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Michał Mankiewicz
| Decision (majority)
| KSW XIV

KSW XIV

KSW XIV: Judgment Day was a mixed martial arts event held on 18 September 2010 by the Polish promotion Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki in Poland at the Atlas Arena in Łódź...

Poland

||KSW Lightweight Tournament quarter-final.
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|Win
|align=center| 14-6
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Nailsea

Nailsea is a town in the unitary authority of North Somerset within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, approximately to the southwest of Bristol and about to the northeast of the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare. The nearest village is Backwell, which lies south of Nailsea on the...

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 13-6
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Bristol

, England

England

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|Loss
|align=center| 12-6
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Ashleigh Grimshaw

Ashleigh Grimshaw is an English professional mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2003, Grimshaw has spent his entire career in England, most notably for Cage Rage and BAMMA....

| TKO (punches)
| BAMMA 3

BAMMA 3

BAMMA 3: WATSON vs. HORWICH was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on May 15, 2010 at the LG Arena in Birmingham, England. It featured three title fights, and was headlined by Matt Horwich and Tom Watson...

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England

England

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|Loss
|align=center| 12-5
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Alan Omer
| Submission (triangle choke)
| BAMMA 2

BAMMA 2

BAMMA 2: OMER vs. REED was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on February 13, 2010 at The Roundhouse in London, England. The event was televised on Bravo in the United Kingdom....

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

||For the BAMMA Featherweight Championship.
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|Win
|align=center| 12-4
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Wells

Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Although the population recorded in the 2001 census is 10,406, it has had city status since 1205...

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 11-4
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Kidderminster

Kidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...

, England

England

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|Loss
|align=center| 10-4
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Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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|Win
|align=center| 10-3
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London

, England

England

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|Loss
|align=center| 9-3
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Edinburgh

, Scotland

Scotland

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|Win
|align=center| 9-2
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Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

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|Win
|align=center| 8-2
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England

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|Loss
|align=center| 7-2
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Brad Pickett

| Decision (majority)
| Cage Rage 26

Cage Rage 26

Cage Rage 26: Extreme was a mixed martial arts event held by the Cage Rage Championships on May 10, 2008 at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England...

London

, England

England

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|Loss
|align=center| 7-1
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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large town and unitary authority area in England. It is located in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London....

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 7-0
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Alexandre Izidro

England

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|-
|Win
|align=center| 6-0
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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 5-0
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Reading, Berkshire

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 4-0
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England

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|-
|Win
|align=center| 3-0
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Liskeard

Liskeard is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Liskeard is situated approximately 20 miles west of Plymouth, west of the River Tamar and the border with Devon, and 12 miles east of Bodmin...

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 2-0
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Reading, Berkshire

, England

England

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|Win
|align=center| 1-0
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England

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