Sweden’s Mats Nilsson, voted 2010 breakthrough fighter of the year at Swedish Martial Arts award, will face TUF finalist Tommy Speer at Cage Warriors Fighting Championships. The event will take place at “Fight Night 3”, the same card that Swede Victor Cheng and Domingos Mestre, and Finn Juha-Pekka Vainikainen will compete on. Read the Cage Warriors press release below, which finalizes the card that will take place in Lebanon.
THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER 6 finalist Tommy Speer will make his Cage Warriors debut next month when he tackles Mats Nilsson in a middleweight bout at Fight Night 3 in Lebanon, Beirut on February 11.
Speer (19-5-0), who fights out of Fiore MMA in Illinois, has fought twice in the UFC but was released by the organisation following his 2008 defeat to Anthony Johnson. The 27-year-old Minnesota native lost to Marc Danzig in the TUF 6 finale but is currently on a four-fight win streak stretching back to May 2010.
Hailing from Helsingborg in Sweden, Nilsson (7-1-1) is unbeaten in his last three outings and picked up impressive wins in 2011 against Nikos Sokolis and M-1 veteran Gregor Herb. The 29-year-old has also beaten fellow Swede Magnus Cedenblad, who signed with the UFC earlier this month.
“The Cage Warriors team spent a long time looking for a worthy opponent for Tommy Speer and I feel Mats Nilsson has the credentials to test him,” said CWFC matchmaker Ian Dean.
“He was in Thailand training when he accepted the fight and I’m really pleased to have secured another high-level European fighter for Fight Night 3. I think this bout is a superb addition to a card which already features several talented European fighters facing opposition from the US.”
About CWFC Fight Night 3:
Date: 11/02/2012
Venue: To be confirmed
Location: Lebanon
Cage Warriors heads to Lebanon for the first time to kick off its 2012 schedule with Fight Night 3.
The event will play host to the first two quarter-final bouts of the Cage Warriors eight-man middleweight tournament which will decide the new CWFC champion, while UFC veterans Kyle Watson and Tommy Speer will also be in action.
Cage Warriors Fight Night 3 will be broadcast online exclusively by MMAJunkie.com and on television via Sky Sports (UK), Fight Now TV (USA) and The Fight Network (Canada), among others.
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