Cage Warriors 213 built its whole Saturday night around a featherweight title fight and never got an ending. Nik Bagley’s championship bout with Bruno Souza at the BBC Studioworks Television Centre in London was ruled a No Contest after an accidental groin foul, which left the headliner of a two-title card without a winner and the 145-pound division sitting exactly where it was when the two men walked out.
It’s a flat result for a fight the promotion pushed hard all week. Cage Warriors pitched it on X as Europe’s best against the West Coast’s best, and it ran a fight-week piece on Souza, the Brazilian challenger, framing the night as his shot at becoming a Cage Warriors champion. That shot is now on hold. A title fight that ends in a no contest normally doesn’t move the belt, so Bagley leaves London with the same gold he brought in, and Souza leaves with nothing settled. There’s no word yet on when, or whether, they run it back.
Scott and Lopes carry the night
The co-main gave the crowd the kind of finish to the evening the headliner couldn’t. Jawany Scott, introduced by the promotion under Jamaican and English flags, beat Brazil’s Willians Nogueira for the interim flyweight title. Cage Warriors had billed the 125-pound fight as the first of the card’s two world title bouts, and it turned out to be the only one that produced a champion.
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Further up the main card, Wellington Lopes delivered the upset of the night, knocking out Tariq Pell in a 161-pound catchweight bout. On a card where the main event dissolved, Lopes’s finish is the clip people will actually pass around.
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The rest of the lineup, which aired on UFC Fight Pass and was tracked in the r/MMA live discussion thread, had already been reshuffled before fight night. Habib Samadi withdrew from his 125-pound bout with Bobby Chikavhu, who instead met Christos Ploumpis at 130. Kadeem Perkins pulled out of a 135-pound fight with Ollie Sarwa, and Sarwa faced Ieuan Mackenzie at 140 instead. A 155-pound bout between Marin Vetrila and Stefano Catacoli was also cancelled. The main card also featured Shirzad Qadrian against Manoel Silva at 135 and Steven Hill against Sado Ucar at 170, with Ben Edwards vs. James Wamsley and Callum Haughian vs. Will Fox on the prelims.
Quick take
Nobody should be blamed for an accidental foul, and a no contest is the honest call when a fight gets cut short that way. But it leaves Cage Warriors with a featherweight belt that went unanswered on its biggest night and a new interim flyweight champion who suddenly looks like the most important person in the building. The fix is obvious. Book Bagley and Souza again while the Europe versus West Coast pitch still means something, and give Scott a date to go after the undisputed flyweight belt.
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