Middletown, OhioOnce again these were MMA fights and took place in a cage. On an interesting note the show was ran by Kerry "The Meat Truck" Schall, and Monte Cox who manages some of the greatest fighters in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (Ex. Pat Militech, Jeremy Horn, Matt Hughes, Jens Pulver, Jason Black, Tim Sylvia, and Robbie Lawler, just to name a few). The show was all amateur MMA matches except for the last two fights of the night. In Co-Main Event of the evening Antoine Skinner, the only man to beat Jason in MMA by decision, won his match. In the Main event of the night Jason Dent dispatched of hometown favorite Billy Rush in the first round of their match. Billy dominated early on scoring a takedown and pushed Jason to the cage which happened to be his corner (Jorge Gurgel, and Rich Franklin). From there he tried to Ground and Pound Jason, with most of his shots being blocked by Jason he quickly went for a Toe Hold but Jason was able to roll out of it. Both fighters scrambled back to thier feet where Jason would get his hooks in first and score a body lock sweep. From here Jason Methodically picked his opponent apart landing shots from Billys half guard (Body, Body, Head) until finally gaining full mount and raining down punches to get the Tap Out with only 30 seconds left in the first round. With Antoine advancing and Jason beating Billy Rush their will be a showdown between the two for the I.C.E. Lightweight Title on the next show, I forgot to mention that it was a four man Tournament.On a cool note Rich Franklin,(Who will be the first fight on the main card of the UFC next Friday.)was in my oppossing corner coaching against me. Overall this was a good event the people running the show did a good job, especially considering they had like over four drop outs the week of for different reasons. The crowd must a been a couple hundred at most, nothing like the Next Level Fighting show from last weekends which had 1,900 in attendance.It's good to be back on the winning streak again and it's also cool that I am set up for a rematch with the only man to beat me in MMA so far, it should be interesting to fight Antoine again. Special Thanks to Mike "The Bull" Russo for coming and cornering me, also thank you goes out to my soon to be Manager Chas Bowlin for getting me this fight and cornering me. Also Thank you to all those here at home for you're support it is appreciated. See everyone in class.
