BAMMA 8: Manuwa vs Rea is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts (BAMMA) on December 10, 2011, at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham, England.
Official Fight Card
Main card
Light Heavyweight bout: England Jimi Manuwa vs France Antony Rea
Welterweight bout: England Jim Wallhead vs United States Joey Villaseñor
World Lightweight Title Eliminator: England Andre Winner vs Sweden Diego Gonzalez
Bantamweight bout: Northern Ireland Paul McVeigh vs United States Erik Perez
Preliminary card
British Middleweight Title: Wales Jack Marshman vs England Lee Barnes
Lightweight bout: England Curt Warburton vs Wales Tim Newman
Light Heavyweight bout: Netherlands Jason Jones vs England Mark Godbeer
Welterweight bout: England Dean Amasinger vs England Danny Mitchell
Lightweight bout: England Colin Fletcher vs England David Round
Welterweight bout: England Tom Breese vs England Qasim Shafiq
Welterweight bout: Spain Christian Holley vs England Lee Taylor
Bantamweight bout: England Brent Crawley vs England Mark Platts
Flyweight bout: Scotland Brian Hyslop vs England Ian Malone
Background
This event was meant to hold the BAMMA debut of Nate Marquardt, but it has been pushed back to 2012 and will be against Yoshiyuki Yoshida.
Marquardt has shown his desire for his opponent to be UFC, Cage Rage, Strikeforce and BAMMA veteran Paul Daley. Daley, however, later decided not to take the fight, citing that between having already competed 5 times in 2011 from October 21 and being such a high stakes fight, it was in his best interest to look have his next fight in 2012 so he can rest up and work out a gameplan against Marquardt.
UCMMA Light Heavyweight Champion Jimi 'Poster Boy' Manuwa has signed a four fight deal with BAMMA and will make his promotional debut on this show.
UFC Hall of Fame member and MMA legend Randy Couture will be appearing at BAMMA 8 to meet fans and sign copies of his new book 'The Last Round'.
Andre Winner was slated to fight Niko Puhakka in a lightweight title eliminator. However Puhakka was pulled from the card when it became known that he is a Nazi sympathetic-er, as he wears Nazi inspired tattoos over his body. Puhakka has been replaced by Diego Gonzalez.