Manuel Del Valle closed out Cage Warriors 212 in London on Saturday with a TKO win built on a heavy, sustained burst of strikes. By the time the cage was cleared, his next fight already had a city attached to it. Graham Boylan told Luis Rodríguez of Jaula Magazine that Cage Warriors will run an event in Seville and that Del Valle will fight for the welterweight title there. Spanish account @pelunaton shared the report, and the promotion’s own X account reposted it with “WAIT HE ANNOUNCED WHAT?!”
The date isn’t locked down yet, at least in public. The @pelunaton post put the Seville card on April 3, 2027. A separate post from @antoniioruiiz80, which also cited Rodríguez’s conversation with the CW president in London, listed April 13. Cage Warriors hasn’t officially confirmed either date. It did post “Should We Announce Cage Warriors Seville for 2027?” over a replay of the finish, which is about as subtle as a spinning back fist.
The main event was billed as Spain against Brazil, and Del Valle headlined a main card stacked with Spanish fighters. Cage Warriors called the closing sequence a massive flurry, and the replay backs that up. He kept throwing until his Brazilian opponent had nothing coming back. The sources didn’t give records, the round, or the time, so the official sheet will have to fill those in.
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A night of taps
The early part of the card barely let anyone sit down. The prelims streamed on UFC Fight Pass, and the submissions started early and kept going. Hany Musleh, a 21-year-old making his Cage Warriors debut, produced what the promotion called a wicked performance, and his finish made it four submissions in a row at CW212. The promotion’s account also said Musleh had put the Spanish main card on hold, which is a fun problem to cause in your first fight with the company.
Before that, the CW account celebrated Connor Patterson going back to back and joked that it must be flu season in London. Ermil Xhaferi, 26, was the other standout. Cage Warriors described his win as “pure domination” capped by a late finish to complete his comeback, and called it flawless.
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What’s next
If Boylan’s comments hold, Del Valle goes from headlining in London to a home-country title fight in Seville next spring, with the welterweight belt on the line. The opponent hasn’t been named, and the exact day in April needs to be settled before anyone starts booking flights.
My take: this is how you book a regional promotion. You give your hottest Spanish welterweight a violent finish in London, then you put him in front of his own people with a belt on the line. A packed Seville crowd watching Del Valle chase gold is worth more than any press release. The kid I’ll be watching, though, is Musleh. A 21-year-old who finishes in his debut on a night when everybody else is also tapping people out still found a way to get noticed, and Cage Warriors should get him back on a card before Seville gets here.
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