Thread: Ian "M-16" Butlin Interview

On September 27th, Ian "M-16" Butlin will attempt to silence his critics and show why he is one of the UK's top Lightweight fighters when he faces the CFC Lightweight British Champion AJ Wenn at the highly anticipated M-1 Challenge show in Nottingham.

Eager to promote the fight and set the record straight Ian Butlin took some time out from his busy schedule to talk to Cagewarriors.com about the M-1 Challenge series, the forthcoming bout and much, much more.

Here's a brief snippet

Back in September 2006 (after your win over Phil Raeburn at Cage Warriors: Showdown 1) you made the now infamous rant to announce you will be entering the Cage Warriors 8 Man Lightweight tournament in November that year. Did you really see yourself as the UK number 1 lightweight or was it just casual hype?

See below for the rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1gBfLBNEPU


At that time I had no doubt I was the UK's number 1 Lightweight. Ollie Ellis had been making excuses forever whilst we were ranked one and two. We all hoped the tournament would sort that out but it turned out Cage Warriors had to bring in foreign opposition to make up the tournament, which to this day was a great event.

I still think I am ranked up there but as we have found it so hard to get UK opposition its hard to tell. Not many of they guys ranked above me would beat guys such as Aidan Marron, Jarkko Latomaki or KO Emmanuel Geay in the first round, so I am not losing any sleep over these ‘official' rankings, I see them as a bit of a joke really.

Check out the full interview with the "self proclaimed number 1 UK Lightweight" at
http://www.cagewarriors.com/article.130.htm


For a preview of the Butlin/Wenn bout go to http://www.cagewarriors.com/article.126.htm


For full Ticket and Fightcard information on this fantastic weekend of MMA action go to

http://www.cagewarriors.com/event.25.htm

http://www.cagewarriors.com/event.26.htm


Whilst to find out more about the M-1 Challenge go to

http://www.cagewarriors.com/m1challenge.htm
and
http://www.cagewarriors.com/article.127.htm

Good interview. Cant wait for his next fight.