NAAFS Champ and Bellator star Chris Lozano added to 4/16 Caged Vengeance Card
Lozano Added – Complete CV9 Undercard released
3/15/11 (North Canton, OH): The NAAFS is pleased to announce that former NAAFS Middleweight Champion and current Bellator super star Chris “The Cleveland Assassin” Lozano (11-2) has officially been added to an already stacked Caged Vengeance 9 fight card set for the Canton Memorial Civic Center on April 16th.
After competing in Bellators historic main event on MTV 2 just over a week ago, Lozano returns home to face Edward O’Daniel (8-3) in a featured professional bout. Lozano, who is still under contract with Bellator, has been granted permission to fight for the NAAFS in April but is expected to return to the Bellator cage in July. O’Daniel comes in to this fight winning four of his last five bouts with his only defeat coming to current UFC standout Charlie Brennamen in January of 2009.
“Im thrilled to have Chris back in the NAAFS for this particular card. I know Midwest fans havent been able to see Chris fight in person since his last fight in the NAAFS against Jason Dent which was nearly a year ago and fans are eager to see Chris fight again. We are very appreciative to Sam Caplan and Bellator for allowing Chris to take part in this historic event for us.”said NAAFS president Greg Kalikas.
In other Caged Vengeance 9 news, top amateur prospect Cody “No Love” Garbrandt has been forced to withdraw due to injury. Garbrandt injured his knee while training in Illinois with Matt Hughes’ H.I.T. Squad in preparing for his fight with Tyler Saltsman. Garbrandts replacement will be NAAFS veteran and 2010 national semi-finalist Bhrandon Poindexter of Evolve MMA. Both Poindexter and Saltsman have expressed interest in facing each other thru various social network comments made by each fighter. Now they will get the opportunity to square off on of the biggest stages the NAAFS has to offer.
The NAAFS has also released the remaining undercard bouts for Caged Vengeance 9 in Canton. The updated Card is as follows:
Pro Series Featured Bouts
170 lbs title – Nick “The Savage” Duell 17-4-1 (Strong Style Fight Team) vs Kevin Knabjian 9-5-1 (Midwest Training Center)
170 lbs – Chris “The Cleveland Assassin” Lozano 11-2 (Strong Style Fight Team) vs Edward O’Daniel 8-3 (Walker MMA)
155 lbs – Terry Blackwell 5-1 (Team Instigator) vs Tony “Mexican Muscle” Castillo 8-1 (Toledo, OH)
265 lbs – Stipe Miocic 9-0 (Strong Style Fight Team) vs Mike Wessel 10-4 (Westside Kickboxing)
185 lbs – Travis “The Terror” Clark 10-0 (Evolve MMA) vs Mickey Hughes 8-6 (H20 MMA/Mainstreet MMA)
170 lbs – Chuck Ellison 9-4 (Team Instigator) vs TBA
265 lbs – Bobby Brents 8-1 (Team Warrior Concepts) vs Antoine “Herc” Hayes 9-5 (Chicago, Ill)
185 lbs – John “The Bullet” Fields 5-6 (Team Instigator) vs Niko Boscarino 8-11 (Walker MMA)
Preliminary Amateur Undercard
135 lbs – Rachel “The Rage” Dovidio 4-1 (Independent) vs Chandra Engel 5-3 (American Muscle)
145 lbs – RJ Buck 8-2 (Independent) vs Tony Metsch 4-0 (Team Impact/Mainstreet/H2O)
170 lbs – Fred Mustgrave 3-0 (Dungeon MMA) vs Josh Oppenheimer 5-3 (Evolve MMA)
115 lbs – Ronda Gale 4-2 (Dungeon MMA) vs Lylna Thao 6-4 (TCB Fight Factory)
155 lbs – Aaron Bartow 4-0 (Team Instigator) vs William Algeo 2-0 (Team Titan)
145 lbs – Tyler Saltsman 4-1 (Team Titan) vs Bhrandon Poindexter 5-4 (Evolve MMA)
185 lbs – Kurt Lemmon 3-0 (Dungeon MMA) vs Mike Garcher 4-1 (Powerhouse)
265 lbs – Terry Smith 5-3 (Team Instigator) vs Nathan Bryant 7-4 (Ground Zero)
205 lbs – Pat Schottenheimer 2-0 (Team Instigator) vs Chris Jones 0-0 (S.A.F.E.)
155 lbs – Jeff Kashdan 1-1 (Team Instigator) vs Dlyan King 1-0 (Dungeon MMA)
170 lbs – Adam Warmath 0-0 (Team Instigator) vs TBA
*All bouts subject to change
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March 15th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
awesome card cant wait to see saltsman takedown and lay on top of bp for 3 rounds
March 15th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
lol you mean saltsman pound the crap out of bp?
March 15th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
BP will knock saltsman out. saltsman isint good or tough.
March 16th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
that is if bp doesnt cramp up during the fight
March 16th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
lets see some predictions
March 16th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
haha why does BP just learn to defend takesdowns. personally i hope BP gets his ass kicked by a 135er lol
March 17th, 2011 at 8:19 am
if he hasnt learned yet he never will, saltsman is on another level in wrestling than healy so poindexter better hope to god he got ko power
March 17th, 2011 at 8:21 am
if he hasnt learned yet he never will, saltsman is on another level in wrestling than healy so poindexter better hope to god he got ko power…….bp already got beat up at 135 and hopefully the commission will watch the scale so no socks get stuffed under it
March 17th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
i dont think itll matter saltsman is a bigger and more powerful athlete than BP. yea bp has better striking but ho wlong will bp last before he gets taken down?
March 18th, 2011 at 4:08 am
Awesome card Greg,! Back in the house of the ohio fight fest days, the only thing missing is butzer slamming someone unconscious lol
March 18th, 2011 at 11:00 am
predictions?
March 24th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
BP will knock out Saltsman!
March 26th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
I think that Poindexter vs Saltsman has the perfect contrast of styles to be a barnburner from start to finish, whenever or however that finish comes depends on who is able to stick to “his fight” plan the most diligently, I initially was hatin on Saltsman because I thought he was getting props more for what he could potentially become than what he actually had done so far, but in taking on Bhrandon following a loss to Isiah Chapman, says a lil sumthin bout his belief in self,,,,I think BP is to advanced for him in the deep waters,,(I say poindexter gets it) but he’s probably gonna have to stretch Tyler out to do it, if not Saltsman by dec, I bet bp 3 galleyboys,,and tyler 2 primanti bros sandwiches both with everything on em, so I’m gonna eat regardless to who wins “Good Luck Guys Fight your Fight”