Cage Warriors’ return to Dublin next month now has its light heavyweight title headliner set.
In the Cage Warriors 81 main event, Karl Moore (7-1) will take on Josh Clark (10-3) for the promotion’s vacant 205-pound belt. The promotion announced the new booking today along with the addition of a women’s atomweight fight between Catherine Costigan (5-2) and Wendy McKenna (1-0).
Cage Warriors 81 takes place March 4 at 3Arena in Dublin. The event will stream live on UFC Fight Pass.
“Karl has the chance to become the latest Irish CW champion, and we’ve had some great ones,” Cage Warriors President Graham Boylan stated. “But this could go either way, all the way. It’s an exciting fight.”
The 205-pound division has not been one Cage Warriors has focused on in recent years. In fact, the most recent fighter to hold that belt for the promotion was current UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping in 2005, just before he headed to the UFC as part of Season 3 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” which he won.
Moore, from Northern Ireland, is coming off a first-round knockout of Paco Estevez at Cage Warriors Unplugged in November. That gave him back-to-back victories and kept him perfect under the Cage Warriors banner at 3-0. Six of his seven career wins are by stoppage.
“The Hillbilly Heartthrob” Clark was coach B.J. Penn’s second light heavyweight pick on Season 19 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” He won his fight to get into the house by submitting John Poppie. But in his first fight in the tournament, he was topped by Corey Anderson by majority decision, and Anderson went on to win the “TUF 19” light heavyweight crown. Clark has won five of his past six official fights, including a knockout win over Brent Knopp this past October in regional competition.
The Cage Warriors 81 card now includes:
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