Pro Fighting Fans "Jason Dent & Donny Walker Interviews"

Following two of the most exciting and action packed fights in the history of the Griffonrawl MMA Academy, Pro Fighting Fans (http://www.profighting-fans.com/) writer Luke Jernigan sat down with team captain Jason 'Dynamite' Dent. In a seperate interview, Curt Heinrichs spoke with boxing instructor Donny 'Eagle Eye' Walker. Both are exceptional interviews and well worth the read.

For Jason's interview visit www.profighting-fans.com/articles/jason-dent-interview_062010.html.

For Donny's interview visit www.profighting-fans.com/articles/donny-walker-interview_062310.html.

Intimidation Clothing "Jason Dynamite Dent"

Intimidation Clothing, a leader in MMA inspired clothing and apparel, has recently added a Jason "Dynamite" Dent t-shirt to its clothing line. Shirts are available by visiting http://www.intimidationclothing.com/ or by visiting GriffonRawl MMA Academy's pro-shop.

Extreme Fight Club "Downtown Beatdown 3"

Erie, Pennsylvania

Avalon Hotel Ballroom

On Saturday, June 12, 2010, Team GriffonRawl's Donny Walker took on Bombsquad MMA's (New York) Kenny Foster in a professional featherweight contest. Kenny entered the contest with a professional record of 7-1, with his only blemish coming at the hands of current World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) featherweight Mackens "Da Menace" Semerzier.

Matchmaker Jason Lawrence showed he was a veteran of the MMA community by pitting two men who came to leave it all in the cage. Donny was dropped in the first round following a wicked overhand left from Foster, but showed why he is one of the most exciting featherweights in the country, rallying to get the fight standing where he landed damaging blows of his own.

In the second round, Donny landed a brutal knee to the face of Foster that not only broke his nose but cut Foster that caused a large amount of blood to come pouring from his face. The fight was stopped momentarily as the cage-side doctor examined and then determined Foster was able to continue. Literally and figuratively, Donny smelled blood and went back to work landing elbows to Foster that added to the damage and caused new cuts. Throughout both rounds, both men kept pressing forward landing heavy blows to the excitement of the crowd. The one-minute break between rounds two and three had to be extended to clean up the puddles that formed seemingly everywhere.

Early in round 3 Donny was attacking from his guard and opened up Foster again, but this time the referee determined there was simply too much blood loss from Foster to allow the contest to continue, thereby giving Donny a TKO victory and his fifth consecutive win.

In the post fight interview, Donny thanked his team and his wife for their support and then made his pitch to the WEC, asking to be called up to the world's leading promotion for featherweights. Having put on tremendous, exciting fights with WEC veterans Cub Swanson and Jeff Curran, coupled with his victory over an extremely tough Kenny Foster, Donny has taken yet another step towards goal---the WEC.

Donny's next scheduled fight is August 28, 2010. He is set to face Mike Nesto for the NAAFS pro-series featherweight title.

Griffonrawl MMA Academy "Face Lift"

The Griffonrawl MMA Academy has received a "face lift" in two ways.

First, the physical side. Team captain and owner Jason Dent continues to put money back into the business in order to continually improve the academy. His latest venture was to have the windows stensiled with the new logo and cage images. His never-dying love for his academy has made Griffonrawl into the area's leading martial arts studio.

Next the technical side. Traditionally, the only "e-news" was fight results. Moving forward, promotions inside the academy, "smoker" results, grappling tournaments, seminars, and updates to the website or the academy itself will be in the e-news section of http://www.ohio-mma.com/.

Our hope is to keep visitors to the website more up-to-date on the academy and not to simply report the results of MMA competitions.

Belt Promotion "John Strmac"

After many years of study under his main instructor Jeff Starr, John Strmac was promoted to purple belt on May 23, 2010 in the Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy. John has participated in tournaments in Ohio and Pennsylvania and has attended seminars held by such names as Relson Gracie, Robin Geisler, Saulo and Xande Ribeiro, Romero "Jacare" Calvacant, Jeff Monson, "Zee," and Chris Brennan.

NAAFS "Fight Night in the Flats VI"

Cleveland, Ohio

Nautica Pavilion

On Saturday June 5, 2010 three of GriffonRawl's veterans were set for action in the regions biggest event--Fight Night in the Flats VI.

Bryon McCroskey had his hands full with NAAFS veteran, Joey Holt. Both men fought well, hit hard, and looked to be in tremendous shape for the bout. In the end, Holt was awarded a split decision victory, and in a fight that close it could have gone either way. Both men showed why they are on the cusp of turning professional.

Reggie Parks fell short against Bill Morosetti, who chained submission attempts together in a most impressive fashion. Reggie was able to counter and defend the submission attempts in the first round but an arm bar by Morosetti was locked in during round 2 that forced Reggie to tap at the 1:56 mark.

Jason Dent moved up a weight class and Chris Lozano moved down a weight class, thereby pitting the NAAFS Lightweight Champion against the NAAFS Middleweight Champion in 5-round "superfight" championship bout. Lozano came out strong and threw a head kick that, when blocked by Dent, snapped Jason's left forearm in half. Ever the warrior, Jason kept fighting and between rounds one and two told his corner he wasn't going down without a fight, even though he could feel the bones in his arm moving left and right, and was unable to throw anything with his left hand. The two continued to bludgeon one another, but at the end of the forth round, Dr. Jerome Williams called a stop to the contest due to a large cut on Jason's forehead. Jason and Chris embraced, put their feud aside and took the opportunity in the post fight interview to complement one another on each other's toughness and skill.

Although the team came up short on paper, it was an epic night for GriffonRawl. All three men showed why they are true warriors, but more importantly truly classy men.

For full results visit www.naafs.tv