Phil Baroni Wins At Cage Rage

by Luke Thomas on Jul 13, 2008 1:11 AM EDT in MMA News

Phil Baroni made a successful adjustment to welterweight with a highlight reel knockout win Saturday at Cage Rage 27: Step Up at the Wembley Arena in London.

Baroni landed a right hook to send his opponent Scott Jansen, a product of Cage Rage's "Contenders" feeder show, flat on his back in the first round.

Baroni, who apparently can't escape odd incidents even outside of the US, walked over to check on his fallen opponent only to receive a headbutt from someone out of Jansen's corner. Baroni simply backed off to avoid escalating the situation.

Not much to say except it was a must-win and he won. Well done. As for the controversy, it's Baroni's M.O., intentional or not. That sort of thing comes with the territory when he's around.

[UPDATE] by Chris Nelson

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To The Bloodyelbow crew from venezuela

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Angel Navarro, San Cristobal – Venezuela

by theiceman on Jul 12, 2008 10:53 PM EDT reply actions

on topic?

That relates to the Baroni fight how?

Anyway, Baroni looked good and the lower weight suits him. Cant believe that random headbutt though…

by Benicio on Jul 12, 2008 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions

For Future Reference

You can post news like this in the fanposts section. Then you won’t have people berating you for it in the comments. In any case, it’s good to hear that MMA is gaining ground in South America outside of Brazil.

by FRANKIE on Jul 13, 2008 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions

NYBA

I didn’t even bother reading the first post.the topic is about Baroni’s win not stupid BS no one cares about.I don’t care if Jansen was a can.a wins a win.I can’t believe how calm he was about the head butt.

by Airipsus on Jul 13, 2008 12:59 AM EDT reply actions

Respect to Baroni….Finally

by nitro on Jul 13, 2008 1:58 AM EDT reply actions

Can someone explain that standup to me? He had just passed into full mount and gets stood up?

by SplitBreast on Jul 13, 2008 2:06 AM EDT reply actions

Yeah exactly. He was working to get mount for like two minutes. I guess you have to start swinging straight away…

by goo on Jul 13, 2008 7:09 AM EDT up reply actions

No, that didn’t make any sense. Terrible stand up.

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by Richard Wade on Jul 13, 2008 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Nice skivvies on the guy who head-butted Baroni.

by Popetastic on Jul 13, 2008 3:32 AM EDT reply actions

In case anyone gets the wrong idea – the incident after the fight wasn’t Baroni’s fault at all. The knockout had the other kid on the floor for a good 5 minutes – Baroni went over to check on him (for the second time), and was trying to shift past a guy from opponents corner, who in turn tried to nut him. Classy. Anyway, Baroni just put his hands up and backed away, so good on him.

I haven’t seen cage rage for a while now, but fuck me sideways, it seems to have got worse.

by -Sam on Jul 13, 2008 5:50 AM EDT reply actions

The NYBA goes to check on his opponent and get headbutted and flipped off in return.

Lame.

Nice to see the commentators call it like it is. A dumb act by an idiot.

by Tonley on Jul 13, 2008 5:52 AM EDT reply actions

That was crazy

Great to see Baroni get a good win under his belt and to see him at 170

That head Butt was totally unnecessary

all you gotta do is...

by imapimp08 on Jul 13, 2008 12:44 PM EDT reply actions

the brits doon't like those wankers wrestling on the ground

I know some fighters from England and they say the crowd hates it when the fighters stay on the ground. They have a differen’t opinion of how an MMA fights should be. How many awsome grapplers come to mind when thinking of British fighters. Not all people from england are like who we see on T.V all proper and classy some are straight thugs. watch a Guy Ritchie movie LOL he’s totally famous and look at SLORE he’s with. Think of soccer over there you can get beat up for liking the wrong team in the wrong city. A yank knocking a home town boy the F@#k OUT was just too much for the bloke to take. Baroni is a true professional for not engaging that guy, He just got paid to knock someone out why should he do it for free. This ain’t two for one night.

by son of mark on Jul 13, 2008 8:42 PM EDT reply actions