Cage Warriors land back in Newcastle tonight with Cage Warriors 172 and with the vacant Featherweight strap up for grabs.
The promotion will head to the Vertu Motors Arena with a 12 fight card that is stacked with local talent.
In the main event, Harry Harwick and Orlando Wilson Prins will square off for the vacant 145lbs strap. Both men are in fine form and will battle it out over five, five minute rounds, should they need them, to decide who will be the new king of the Featherweight division.
In the co-main event, James Power will look to build another winning streak when he takes on Daniel Kolasinski. Last time out marked the first time Power won a contest by decision, having won his previous 5 all within the allotted time. For Kolasinski, Cage Warriors 172 will mark the first time he will compete for the promotion. He enters riding a two fight win streak.
In a bout that could well be a contender for fight of the night, Leon Hill will face promotional newcomer Tommy Hawthorn in a Lightweight contest. Throughout the years, Team KF have had some incredible athletes compete on the Cage Warriors stage, not least head coach Chris Fields, and Hill appears to be the latest of the cohort. In his three fights for the promotion in 2023, Hill stopped Marcin Zembaia and Dumitru Girlean before losing only his second fight as a professional, to Ieuan Davies. If Hawthorn can get his hand raised in his promotional debut, it will send a big message to the rest of the Lightweight division.
You have to wind the clock back five and six years before fans last saw Josh Abraham and Aiden Lee inside the Cage Warriors cage, respectively.
The full CW 172 weigh-in results are as follows…
Cage Warriors 172: Newcastle | LIVE on UFC Fight Pass
Main Card – 12:30 (PT) | 15:30 (ET) | 20:30 (BST) | 21:30 (CEST)
Vacant Featherweight Title: Orlando Wilson Prins (145lbs) vs Harry Hardwick (144.8lbs)
Lightweight: Daniel Kolasi?ski (155.2lbs) vs James Power (155.5lbs)
Bantamweight: Gisele Libânio (133.6lbs) vs Kennedy Freeman (133.9lbs)
Lightweight: Leon Hill (156lbs) vs Tommy Hawthorn (155.3lbs)
Lightweight: Art?rs Leis?ns (155.3lbs) vs Chasen Blair (155.3lbs)
Lightweight: Aiden Lee (155.7lbs) vs Josh Abraham (152.1lbs)
Prelims – 10:00 (PT) | 13:00 (ET) | 18:00 (BST) | 19:00 (CEST)
Bantamweight: João Dos Santos (132lbs) vs Jack Humphries (135.4lbs)
Middleweight: Joe Ambler (185.8lbs) vs Michael Tchamou (184.8lbs)
Bantamweight: Tom Wright (135.4lbs) vs Joe Fields (135.6lbs)
Light Heavyweight: Albert Serpeti (204.6lbs) vs Charles Joyner (202.3lbs)
Welterweight: Faudel Bentayeb (169.2lbs) vs Jackson Clarke (166.6lbs)
Middleweight: Thodoris Serdes (184.7lbs) vs Jordan O’Neill (185.7lbs)
