BAMMA Fight Night: Askham vs Nunes- 06.07.14 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION AND RESULT)

BAMMA Fight Night 
June 7, 2014
02 Guildhall
Southampton,England

Main Card:

                                                   Middleweight
Scott Askham(11-0)              vs                  (13-1)Max Nunes
                                                   Welterweight
Alexei Roberts(10-5)              vs                 (2-2)Artem Kotov
                                                   Fetherweight
Ashleigh Grimshaw(15-8 )       vs                (3-1)Dragan Pesic
                                                    Welterweight
Alex Montagnani(6-1)              vs                 (2-0)Tim Menzies
                                                    Bantamweight
Ed Arthur(3-0)                         vs                 (4-2)Tim Menzies
                                                        Flyweight
Mo Lasladj(2-0)                       vs              (5-11)Mark Handley
 

April 29th, 2014 – BAMMA is excited to announce the launch of BAMMA Fight Nights, which kick off with “BAMMA Fight Night: Askham vs Nunes” in Southampton on 7th June 2014. The event will be headlined by Scott Askham vs Max Nunes for the BAMMA World Middleweight title and takes place at the O2 Guildhall.

SCOTT ASKHAM VS MAX NUNES FOR THE BAMMA WORLD MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE
BAMMA’s exclusively signed World Champion, Scott Askham, holds a professional record of 11-0-0, with his first 8 professional victories achieved between 4 seconds and 2:48 and a flawless record at Amateur. The majority of his wins have been attained via TKO. Askham debuted in the BAMMA cage for BAMMA 12 where he defeated the now BAMMA Lonsdale British Middleweight champion, Harry McLeman, by Rear Naked Choke, before going onto secure a victory over BAMMA’s former British champion, Jack Marshman. He returned for BAMMA 13 where he defeated BJJ black belt, Jorge Michelan Bezerra to earn the BAMMA World Middleweight belt. The Doncaster fighter was slated to fight Ion Pascu at BAMMA 14 but was forced to withdraw due to injury. “BAMMA Fight Night: Askham vs Nunes” sees the champion’s first title challenge play out.

At Light Heavyweight, Max “Power” Nunes was the golden boy of the UK scene as he went undefeated over his first 10 professional fights. His first fight on BAMMA saw him demolish Kevin Thompson via TKO at 1:40 into round 1 and achieve the 8th 1st round finish of his career. Nunes went on to face unorthodox Marcin Lazarz at BAMMA 12, in a tricky bout that was his first to stretch to the third round. BAMMA 13 ushered in Nunes’ first career loss against Jason Jones in a bout for the BAMMA World Light Heavyweight title, after which Nunes made the decision to drop to Middleweight and took on Romanian Ion Pascu in a BAMMA 14 scrap that went the distance in Max’s favour. Now based back in his homeland Sweden, Nunes returns for the title shot at Middleweight following a 1st round victory over Boris Miroshnichenko at Pro FC. Nunes holds a current record of 13-1-0 and trains between Allstars Training Centre in Stockholm and Alliance in San Diego.

Great fight. Two of the best european middleweights. I'm surprised BAMMA has held on to their contracts with all their other top guys jumping to cage warriors.

Going with Nunes in this one. Hope he looks better then he did in his BAMMA LHW title fight.

I wonder if ESPN 3 will broadcast this card in North America on their online stream for those that qualify like they did with the last BAMMA card, BAMMA 15.

June 7th, 2014 - BAMMA is proud to announce the official fight results for "BAMMA Fight Night: Askham vs. Nunes", which took place tonight at the O2 Guildhall in Southampton (UK) as BAMMA's first regional fight night. The night saw Scott Askham challenged by Max Nunes for the BAMMA World Middleweight title. See below for the official fight results:

BAMMA FIGHT NIGHT OFFICIAL RESULTS
BAMMA MIDDLEWEIGHT WORLD TITLE
SCOTT ASKHAM DEF. MAX NUNES
via TKO, ROUND 3, 1:50

CATCHWEIGHT BOUT [ 75.5KG/ 166.4)
ARTEM KOTOV DEF. ALEXI ROBERTS
via TKO (Referee Stoppage), ROUND 1, 1:04

FEATHERWEIGHT BOUT
ASHLEIGH GRIMSHAW DEF. DRAGAN PESIC
via ARM TRIANGLE, ROUND 1, 3:35

WELTERWEIGHT BOUT
ALEX MONTAGNANI DEF. TIM MENZIES
via KO, ROUND 1, 1:28

BANTAMWEIGHT BOUT
ED ARTHUR DEF. MIKE CUTTING
via REAR-NAKED CHOKE, ROUND 2, 1:58

MIDDLEWEIGHT BOUT
MARCUS MITCHELL DEF. NICK JONES
via TKO, ROUND 1, 1:49

FEATHERWEIGHT BOUT
JOSH ROE DEF. ANDY HANNON
via UNANIMOUS DECISION (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)

MIDDLEWEIGHT BOUT
DAMIEN KORYGA DEF. RICKY MITCHELL
via GUILLOTINE CHOKE, ROUND 2, 1:35

This wasn't on tv anywhere, not even in the UK, was it? So no way to see this card or at least the main event?

Nope, wasn't even televised in the UK. BAMMA really shit the bed on that one.