Fabinski, Stewart to headline reshuffled Cage Warriors 113 card as travel ban nixes three bouts

Friday night’s Cage Warriors 113 card has undergone more late-notice changes.

Travel restrictions in the region have forced three fights to be removed from the event, which has been moved from London’s Indigo at The O2 to Manchester’s BEC Arena. The event will be streamed live worldwide, with the preliminary card shown via Cagewarriors.com and the main card shown live on UFC Fight Pass.

The interim featherweight title fight between Morgan Charriere and Darko Banovic, and the flyweight title fight between Samir Faiddine and Luke Shanks, are both now off, as is the rearranged UFC London bout between John Phillips and Dusko Todorovic.

The reshuffled card will now feature a new main event, with UFC middleweights Bartosz Fabinski and Darren Stewart set to face off in Manchester in their recently-matched bout, while the co-main event will feature a battle for the vacant Cage Warriors lightweight title as Mason Jones takes on Joe McColgan.

The midweek fight card changes are the latest in a long line of hurdles the Cage Warriors team, led by Graham Boylan, has had to clear in order to keep their event alive. Despite the chaos, Boylan said his team remains determined to put on a show for MMA fans around the world on Friday.

“We will continue to adapt to changes as they arise, and continue to strive toward providing the biggest and best platform possible for our fighters and fans this Friday night,” he stated.

“As long as the country remains operational, so do we.”

Updated Cage Warriors 113 fight card includes:

MAIN CARD (5:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. GMT, UFC Fight Pass)

Bartosz Fabinski vs. Darren Stewart – UFC middleweight bout
Mason Jones vs. Joe McColgan – for vacant lightweight title
David Bear vs. Nathan Jones
Decky Dalton vs. Paddy Pimblett

PRELIMINARY CARD (2:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. GMT, Cagewarriors.com)

Steve Aimable vs. Perry Goodwin
Coner Hignett vs. Darren O’Gorman
Adam Amarasinghe vs. Jake Bond
Matthew Bonner vs. Jamie Richardson
Kris Edwards vs. James Hendin
Jack Collins vs. Aidan Stephen
Kingsley Crawford vs. Lewis Monarch