Featherweight Title Showdown Announced as the CWFC Calls up a 3rd Member of the American Top Team to Appear at Cagewarriors 9 Against the Unbeaten French Champion Emmanuel Fernandez.

The Cagewarriors Fighting Championships owner/promoter Dougie Truman; the innovator of the UK MMA scene, is proud to announce that a 3rd member of the American Top Team will be making his UK debut at Cagewarriors 9 Xtreme Xmas on the 18th December at the Sheffield Octagon Centre in Yorkshire.

(PRWEB) December 11, 2004 -- London. Andres "Gigetto" Soares http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?fighterID=11704 who made his professional MMA debut last month at the Shooto Ironheart Crown 8: Ethereal card, will be joining teammates Jeff Monson and Gesias JZ" Calvancanti in Sheffield, as the ATT will be hoping for a repeat of their success last month when they impressed by going 3-0 in the Shooto sanctioned event.

Gigetto" is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (under Pride veteran Murilo Bustamante) and has had considerable success on the US grappling circuit this year, which has seen him ranked 31st in the USA "RATED" Grappling Ratings System (Which is a system for Grappling and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that has the cooperation of event promoters world-wide, see http://www.grapplers.com/Rated/standing_global.cfm for more details)

Soares also claim first place at the 2004 Grapplers Quest U.S. Nationals 22nd May 2004 in the Mens No-Gi Advanced Flyweight (139.9 lbs and below) division. "Gigetto" has a reputation for being a experienced and incredibly skilled Jiu Jitsu fighter who has a reputation for being an entertaining crowd pleaser with incredible speed. This will no doubt please the Sheffield crowd which was treated to 8 action packed fights at the previous Cagewarriors show on September 18th.

Soares' above skills were also evident when he defeated the unbeaten Ulysses Rocha (3-0) who had victories in big name events in Canada such as TKO and APEX in Canada. Ironlife.com reported said that Andres Soares exhibited excellent ground control against a very game Rocha" en route to a win by Judges Decision over two, five minute rounds last month.

Soares opponent with be the Cagewarriors Featherweight Champion Emmanuel Fernandez from the French Top Team who were created following a merger of Team Schiavo and Team Fernandez in May 2004. The FTT have been wowing audiences all over Europe since, with a mixture of excellent submission specialists and young dynamic strikers. Fernandez, a black belt in BJJ has a perfect 5-0 MMA record and has never gone past the first round in CWFC competition winning all 4 of his CWFC matches via triangle choke. He claimed the CWFC in the main event of Cagewarriors 7 in May when he defeated the former amateur boxer Ian Butlin. Since then Fernandez defeated Butlin's team mate and UFC vet Leigh Remedios via Judges Decision at Cage Rage 8 in London in September.

Since that victory the French Top Team manager Darragh Creamer has being calling out for big name opponents and tougher fights for the De La Riva Black Belt. Will he regret it come December 18th when the Florida based outfit arrive in Sheffield looking to show who the Top Team" really are in this intriguing ATT vs. FTT encounter between 2 top foreign imports at Cagewarriors 9.

Stayed tuned for the final announcement to this stacked multinational card later on today as the CWFC aims to end 2004 on a high with an Xtreme Xmas this December 18th.

The Cagewarriors Fighting Championship (CWFC) brand is one of the UKs leading professional mixed martial arts events. Owned and operated by Dougie Truman under his Shield Promotions" banner, the CWFC has been established since the summer of 2002 and will hold 6 events per calendar year starting in 2005. As well as having its own official fight team The Northern Cartel the CWFC also runs its own website http://www.cagewarriors.com which contains information about the CWFC, merchandise, DVDs and also boasts an in-depth UK and World MMA news website and forum.

For more information (or to report errors and omissions) please e-mail the CWFC News/Media Manager Ian Dean at iandean@cagewarriors.com.

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