Cage Warriors 111: Three titles on the line on stacked card in London

Top European promotion Cage Warriors returns to its regular London home at the Indigo at The O2 for Cage Warriors 111, and the promotion is bringing a stacked card of fights to the capital Friday.

Three title fights will be on the line, with the headline bout featuring a hotly anticipated rematch of one of the promotion’s most controversial fights of 2019.

Middleweight champion James Webb and challenger Nathias Frederick battled to a majority draw at Cage Warriors 106 in a fight that saw Frederick (7-2-1 MMA, 0-0-1 CW) deducted a point for an illegal spike that eventually proved crucial on the judges’ scorecards. Without the deduction, Fredericks would have claimed the title, and that knowledge irked Webb (6-1-1 MMA, 4-1-1 CW), who expressed his frustration at the judges’ scoring of the fight. Now the pair will meet in a rematch in a bid to produce a definitive result.

Also on the card, two more fighters who captured titles at Cage Warriors 106 will look to complete maiden title defenses in their returns to London.

Mads Burnell (Dolly Clew / Cage Warriors)

Denmark’s Mads Burnell (12-3 MMA, 3-0 CW) produced one of the best submissions of the year to capture the featherweight title, and will hope for a similarly impressive finish when he puts his title on the line against England’s Steve Aimable (14-5 MMA, 4-2 CW).

And England-based Lithuanian Modestas Bukauskas (9-2 MMA, 4-1 CW) will look to cement his position as Cage Warriors’ premier 205-pounder by defeating Italian Riccardo Nosiglia (8-1 MMA, 0-0 CW).

The fight card also features the return of former featherweight champion Paddy Pimblett (14-3 MMA, 9-3 CW), who aims to kick-start a run toward the 155-pound title after moving up to lightweight. He takes on short-notice replacement and former “TUF” finalist Joe Giannetti (8-2-1 MMA, 0-0 CW).

And former BAMMA welterweight champion Alex Lohore (18-4 MMA, 3-1 CW) has his sights set on championship gold at 170 pounds. He takes on Joilton Santos Lutterbach (30-8 MMA, 1-0 CW) looking for a performance to catapult himself into a title fight in early 2020.

The complete Cage Warriors 111 lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 4 p.m. ET)

• Champ James Webb vs. Nathias Frederick – for middleweight title
• Champ Mads Burnell vs. Steve Aimable – for featherweight title
• Champ Modestas Bukauskas vs. Riccardo Nosiglia – for light heavyweight title
• Joe Giannetti vs. Paddy Pimblett

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 12:30 p.m. ET)

• Alex Lohore vs. Joilton Santos Lutterbach
• Daryl Golding vs. Emrah Sonmez
• Adam Amarasinghe vs. Liam Gittins
• Matthew Bonner vs. Warren Kee
• Ayton De Paepe vs. Cory Tait
• Mike Ekundayo vs. Luca Iovine
• Harry Davies vs. Josh Onwordi
• Jordan Barton vs. James Hendin
• Scott Butters vs. Kingsley Crawford