Extreme Fighting Challenge 9

Cleveland, Ohio

Finally a local event (The Scene Pavilion), all of this traveling lately is begining to take its toll. On what started off to look like it would be an easy quick trip quickly became complicated. Less than twenty minutes into our trip the vehicle we took broke down and had us stranded leaving only about an hour to get to the show to fight. Luckily Jason's parents came to the rescue and dropped us off another vehicle big enough to hold the five of us (Jason, Cheyenne, Donny, Breanne, and me). We pushed Cheyenne's car into the nearest parking lot off of the freeway and were on our way again - LOL! EFC 9 turned out to be a very good night for our fighters but a very bad night for the promoter of the show. Plagued with fighter drop outs and a very poor attendance this hsow still had a couple of good fights and the crowed that was there seemed to enjoy itself very much. Our team fighters were not even originally scheduled to compete at this show but due to fighters droping out Jason asked Donny and I to join in and we were ready. Donny had a fight a few days out but I did not even know if I was fighting until like fifteen minutes before my bout. This is a good reason why you should always be in good shape and be ready because the fight buisness is crazy and things come out of nowhere sometimes.GriffonRawl goes Undefeated at EFC IXDonny "Eagle Eye " Walker (Now 3-1) defeated Jason Cable by armbar in Rd. 1Mike " The Bull " Russo (Now 4-4) defeated Lou Rodriguez by armbar in Rd. 1A special thanks to all that attended this show to support our team. I would name everybody but their is too many people that were their from our gym and I don't want to leave anyone out. Written By: Mike Russo