Irishman Solomon Simon will headline Cage Warriors 200 on Saturday evening contained in the RDS area stuffed to the brim with dwelling followers. Cage Warriors have an unbelievable document with Irish fighters and a number of the greats in Irish MMA spent a tenure of their profession within the yellow gloves. The likes of Ian Machado Garry, Paul Hughes and naturally the infamous Conor McGregor.
Cage Warriors is again in Dublin for the primary occasion of 2026 and it’s headlined by an unbelievable battle. It’s a battle of UFC calibre for the featherweight gold within the yellow gloves with two immensely proficient prospects. At 7-0 Simon is hotly tipped to turn into the subsequent nice Irishman to be signed to the UFC following a tenure in Cage Warriors and his spotlight reel reinforces that concept. A ferocious finisher with skill in all areas of MMA. Moreover, the 145lbs champion has a 100% end fee together with 3 submissions and 4 KOs which proves his violent versatility.
Nik Bagley is hoping to spoil the celebration on the Emerald Isle as he’ll make the stroll in opposition to the defending champion. The bout was initially scheduled in November final 12 months nonetheless Bagley was compelled to withdraw as a consequence of a coaching damage. Bagley boasts one other spectacular document at 7-1 with 6 of his victories coming through submission, so it’s clear to see the place the Englishman thrives. His sole profession defeat got here solely on this second Cage Warriors look again in 2022 however since then the Ukrainian born featherweight has been on a tear in direction of gold.
Solomon Simon Previews Battle with Nik Bagley
Talking on the Brandon Talks Fighting Podcast, the featherweight champion confirmed that he had been maintaining a tally of Bagley for a while and seems like he is a wonderful opponent.
“Like I fee him quite a bit… it might most likely be the hardest opponent for positive like I’ve been eyeing him for an excellent whereas.” he adopted up stating “I fee his skillset much more than the earlier ones, like everybody else had just a few issues that they have been superb at or no matter it’s however he appears very nicely rounded.”
Identified for his final second finishes Solomon Simon has talked about in different interviews about wanting this battle to go deeper into championship rounds and he elaborated on these wishes,
“I wish to push myself to a stage the place, I wish to see how far I might go in my very own head like mentally like as a result of the battle sport is hard like and like whenever you’re in difficult positions, whenever you’re struggling, like whenever you’re like making an attempt to get out of positions, whenever you’re doing stuff like your thoughts begins to play methods on you and stuff, like these are like I wish to go in there and like I wish to battle these demons and I really feel like he can be somebody that might push me there.”
Who do you assume will get their hand raised in Dublin at Cage Warriors 200?
