0 a person who takes part in a form of mixed martial arts (= a sport involving many different types of fighting) in which two people fight against each other in an area surrounded by bars or wire:
Before enrolling in divinity school, I was a cage fighter - not a full-time cage fighter, but a cage fighter nonetheless.
She'll get her hair put in cornrows the day before the fight, a ritual she's developed since starting her life as a cage fighter.
For cage fighters with cauliflower ear, these are more fine.
