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Justin Black had a challenging month. On April 4th Black defended his NAAFS Pro-Series Heavyweight title against a hungry challenger Jason Riley. Riley was very aggressive and scored a 1st round KO against Black. Always a warrior Black was back on the mat just two weeks later representing Team Ohio in the Ohio Grappling Challenge’s first ever team event. Justin’s opponent was as strong as he was skilled and the Jujitsu and Judo Black Belt was able to defeat Justin by points in an 8 minute match. Justin has been very active in the last year winning and OGC Super-Heavyweight Advanced Tournament, 2 Shingitai Tournament Circuit events, and 2 of his last 3 pro MMA fights. Watch for Black to bounce back from these losses more competitive than ever!

The Fight Farm is proud to have teamed up with Journey Athletics and is now offering MMA training and instruction at Journey Athletics in Ashland, OH. Training is currently being held on Tuesdays 6:00pm, Wednesdays 5:30pm, and Saturdays 10:30am. As the program develops we will be working toward offering a full time training program with workouts being held 6 days a week.

August has been a really busy month for The Fight Farm!

On Saturday, August 2nd we took a team of 4 competitors to the Ohio Grappling Challenge and came home with 2 medals. Justin Black won the Super-Heavyweight Advanced division, and Hank Webb won a bronze in the Light-Heavyweight beginner division. Also competing were JP Jaranowski, and Josh Longood, both of them in the Lightweight Beginner Division.

On Saturday, August 16th JP Jaranowski, and Hank Webb fought in the Richland Rumble . JP won the Revelation Fight Organization’s Featherweight Title with his first round TKO over Team Beatdown’s Jullian Blanchard in a exciting fast-paced fight.

Hank Webb lost a tough fight via 1st round submission despite having an early advantage with a near guillotine win.

Finally, on Saturday, August 23rd Cody Stevens fought Donny ‘’Eagle Eye'’ Walker for the NAAFS Pro-Series Featherweight Title. Cody was relentlessly aggressive and dominated his way to 5th round submission victory.

Overall we had a great month and all of our fighters should be very proud of the performances. Pics and video will be posted soon.

Coming in September Justin Black rematches his only loss, Joe McCall, for the NAAFS Pro-series Heavyweight Title!

International Warrior

Hall of Fame Open

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Medina Commnunity Recreation Center

855 Weymouth Road

Medina, Ohio (USA)

Presented by: Wu Tang and Asian Martial Arts, Inc.

330-721-9695

www.internationalwarrior.com

click below to download a pdf of the flier, or click on the logo to link to the tournament’s site.

Tournoment flier (World Warrior).pdf

click here for photos from the Warrior Games 

On Saturday, June 14th we hosted our first ever Shingitai Warrior Games. The Games were a a throwback of a special pentathlon that used to be held for Shingitai Competitors as preparation for fights. Back then we used to have only 5 events and only Shingitai club members could compete, but now we will be hosting The Warrior Games throughout the year and it is open to everyone. For our first Warrior Games we had a total of 6 events held in the following order:

1. Pullups for max number of repetitions
2. 40lb Medicine Ball push press toss for distance (think 40lb basketball jump shot)
3. 40lb Medicine Ball 7 ft underhand toss max number of repetitions in 2 minutes (really challenging, lots of hustle)
4. 70 lb Kettlebell Farmer’s Walk up the driveway at The Barn of Truth (only half of our competitors could even finish this event)
5. Standing long jump for distance
6. Inclined Sit-ups for max number of repetitions

We will be hosting the 2nd Shingitai Warrior Games this summer on September 20, mark your calendars now so that you don’t miss it. We will be using the same events as are listed above and if the weather permits we will follow the same order. If you have any questions please contact John Saylor @ (419)938-6089

I will have more pictures and video of myself and Cody’s trip to Tiger Muay Thai . For now enjoy watching this fight and keep posted for more.

Cody has been training really hard here in Thailand and I knew that under 70kg it was going to take a lot for someone to beat him. Cody’s skills are sharp, his strength and conditioning are top notch, and his fighting spirit is strong. Though I knew he would be hard to beat, I did not know that he would be unbeatable. Despite my confidence in his abilities I never would have guessed that Cody would go all day without even giving up a point. The Wolverine was able to submit his way to the finals in his weight class, where he won by points. Still feeling frisky Cody entered the Absolute as well (despite competing in the lightweight division earlier) and won his way to the finals again by submissions. In the finals Cody was paired with a team member and gracefully conceded the match. So the weekend was a great success for Cody, he won his division, and medaled in the Absolute. Cody is now back here at Tiger training for his fight in June at Fight Night in the Flats. I expect him to be as successful there as he was in Manilla last weekend. Keep posted to the site for more photos and videos of Cody’s matches, see more about the Pan-Asian Games here and read more about it here..

The Fight Farm will be sponsoring Cody ‘’The Wolverine'’Stevens as he travels from Phuket, Thailand to Manila to compete in the Pan-Asian Grappling Championships. Cody will take a break from his 8 week training ‘’vacation'’ at Tiger Muay Thai and compete in the under 65 KG division of the tournament, next weekend. Keep posted to the website for results.

As many of you know I am taking a 8 week trip to Thailand to train at Tiger Muay Thai. Before heading off to Thailand Britt (my wife) and I had to come here to Colorado to drop our pit bull, Azul, and then we will fly out of Denver. One of my favorite things to do whenever I come here to visit is The Colorado Stairmaster known to locals as the incline. This set of stairs is so long that you can see it from many miles away. It looks like a huge scar running up the mountain from a distance. It is so high and steep that from the bottom you can’t see the top! I climb the incline every time I come here to visit, unfortunately I don’t come here often enough to have acquired any proficiency in it yet, so it still kills me every time. It took me about 55 minutes to get to the top, and I had to take 3 breaks in spite of my goal to make it without stopping. Azul had to stop off at the half way point and could not make it to the top, I think the altitude was too much for him.

The Fight Farm had a GREAT night of fights last Saturday at Mansfield Mayhem. We had 3 fights on a card of just 11 so we were more than a quarter of the show alone.

Fighting first for the night was Nick Jones, Nick has been with us now less than a year but has trained really hard and made an enormous amount of improvement since he first joined the team. Nick did a great job of fighting smart, he landed some good straight punches in the opening of the first and stayed busy working attacks from rubber-guard after conceding a takedown. He also did a great job of controlling both the action and the distance from his back and was able to oustrike his opponent from guard. Nick was in great shape and pushed a pace that his opponent could not keep up with and at the end of round one his opponent decided ‘’No mas'’ and refused to answer the bell. Nick was declared the winner by TKO.

Next up on the card was Hank Webb. This was Hank’s 2nd outing at a Mayhem show but his first fight since joining our crew. Since he joined we have worked hard on both his conditioning and his ground game, and his training partner Justin Black has also invested lots of extra time in him outside of regular practice. All of the extra work paid off, Hank dominated the stand-up early but made a mistake and gave his back in a transition on the floor. Hank kept his composure and managed to face up to his opponent after fighting off the choke and now in top position guard looked to finish strong and take back the round. Hank postured up and rained down big punches until the bell called him off at the end of the round. It was quite a reversal and in my eyes he stole the round, not that it mattered because his round ending performance had been so overwhelming that his opponent also quit, and we had our 2nd win of the night via TKO after round 1.

In the co-main event we had 145 lb fighter JP Jaranowski fighting, the catch was that as usual there were no 145 lb opponents for him. Again we were forced to bump him up into the 155 lb division to fight. His opponent had won his previous fight with a viscous knock out via right hand so we spent a lot of time on movement and avoiding that same right hand. As far the stand-up portion of the fight went, JP could have won it without even throwing a punch, his head movement was so sharp that he made his opponent look terrible missing haymaker after haymaker. Eventually the fighters would clinch and JP found himself on the wrong end of a guillotine choke for quite a while. He kept his cool and like Hank earlier in the night reversed the position with fury. JP escaped the guillotine, fought to his feet and unloaded heavy straight punches until he dropped the guy, added a few more for good measure and then the referee stepped in sparing JP’s opponent any further punishment.

so there you have it, 3 fights, 3 wins via TKO, a great night. I am very proud of my guys for fighting hard and showing such class in their victories.

Click here to watch more fight videos and see our boys go 3 and 0 by TKO!