Ian Freeman Out of Cage Rage 11, Main Event Off
Pedro Wrobel Apr 29, 2005
LONDON, April 29 — The big news today at Cage Rage’s weigh-in and
rules meeting was the announcement that Ian Freeman has suffered a
last-minute chest injury and thus the headline fight between
Freeman and Kristof
Midoux will no longer take place.
All the other fights are still on, and the card packs some serious fireworks so that even the loss of the main event does little to damage the luster.
Due to some fortunate occurrences, the weigh-in was taking place in
a luxurious suite of rooms that seemed to spell out just how
mainstream the event is becoming. Two separate TV studios and a
much larger audience room meant that the whole experience had a
much more professional feel to it, and the process ticked along
smoothly.
The highlight of the night was Cage Rage broadcaster Stephen Quadros' pre-fight interview with Paul "Hands of Stone" Jenkins.
Actually that's not true — sometimes he just said nothing and looked blank. To Quadros' credit, the veteran never looked flustered on air, despite, by his own admission, being desperate to "look around to see whether anybody is going to yell, “cut.” Eventually Jenkins' ruse was rumbled and a new interview was filmed, but I'm reliably informed that the original will be available in the blooper reel when the DVD is made available.
The official weights (in kg) were:
Jorge Rivera 83.9
Anderson Silva 83.9
Curtis Stout 83.2 Mark Weir 83
Evangelista Santos 90 Mark Epstein 92.5
Pierre Guillet 91 Antony Rea 93
Ross Mason 83 Damien Riccio 82
Paul Daley 77.1 Paul Jenkins 75.5
Tom Niinimaki 70.3 Jean Silva 69
Henrique Santana 83
Hassan Muridi 83.5
Aaron Blackwell 65.6
Brad Pickett 64.8
Andy Costello 104
Robert Berry 115
Jess Liaudin 77
Abdul Mohamed 76.4
Kuljit Degum 108
Tom Blackledge 97
Atilla Kubilay 83.9
Richard Bowkett 81.5
All the other fights are still on, and the card packs some serious fireworks so that even the loss of the main event does little to damage the luster.
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The highlight of the night was Cage Rage broadcaster Stephen Quadros' pre-fight interview with Paul "Hands of Stone" Jenkins.
Quadros launched into his questions in his cheerfully energetic
manner, only to be confronted by a downcast expression from the
Welshman, who, despite the interviewer’s increasingly frantic
prompting, kept shaking his head slowly and answering in a
mock-foreign accent, "fight is bad … fight is wrong … " to all of
the questions.
Actually that's not true — sometimes he just said nothing and looked blank. To Quadros' credit, the veteran never looked flustered on air, despite, by his own admission, being desperate to "look around to see whether anybody is going to yell, “cut.” Eventually Jenkins' ruse was rumbled and a new interview was filmed, but I'm reliably informed that the original will be available in the blooper reel when the DVD is made available.
The official weights (in kg) were:
Jorge Rivera 83.9
Anderson Silva 83.9
Curtis Stout 83.2 Mark Weir 83
Evangelista Santos 90 Mark Epstein 92.5
Pierre Guillet 91 Antony Rea 93
Ross Mason 83 Damien Riccio 82
Paul Daley 77.1 Paul Jenkins 75.5
Tom Niinimaki 70.3 Jean Silva 69
Henrique Santana 83
Hassan Muridi 83.5
Aaron Blackwell 65.6
Brad Pickett 64.8
Andy Costello 104
Robert Berry 115
Jess Liaudin 77
Abdul Mohamed 76.4
Kuljit Degum 108
Tom Blackledge 97
Atilla Kubilay 83.9
Richard Bowkett 81.5
