Cage Warriors Academy Ireland will return for its sophomore event on February 3 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and will once again take place at the Devenish Complex.
The first CWAI event took place in September and by all accounts was a really well ran event with thirteen amateur fights featuring some of the talent from around the whole island competing.
"The first event went really well," said matchmaker Peter Lavery. "There were some fantastic fights, all evenly matched in my opinion. The show ran smoothly with Andy Ryan looking after the backstage area making sure the runners had the fighters down on time, the officials were chosen from across the island and were all licensed by IMMAF/UAMMA and IAMMA, and the refs are two of the most experienced that we have in Ireland.
"We have set ourselves a standard with the academy and we mean to maintain that with all our events.The Cage Warriors Academy has now grown to 8 events now across Europe, which means we are offering our amateur talent the chance to compete at all these events representing Ireland. We have four fighters now through to the Grand Prix final in Wales on December 1st at the Cage Warriors 100 event and we hope that we will have more than that come December 2019."
In a post of their Facebook page CWAI have said that the event on February 3 will feature a full amateur card with two belts on the line and will be headlined by a pro fight.
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