Chris Lozano Versus Jason Dent at NAAFS Fight Night in the Flats VI

Saturday night the North American Allied Fight Series (NAAFS) held Fight Night in the Flats VI. The main event saw Chris Lozano (5-0) take on “Dynamite” Jason Dent (21-11) in a five round title fight.

Jason Dent is well known for his time on “The Ultimate Fighter” season nine where he lost to eventual winner “The Real Deal” Ross Pearson (16-5-1). I would say Dent is also known for his chin and the fact that he has only been stopped once due to knock our or technical knock out in his career. That is until he stepped inside the cage with Chris Lozano.

Chris was recently a guest on MMA Gospel Radio and talked about his thoughts on Dent. Chris has never been out of the first round as a pro, finishing all his fights by KO. He knew Dent had never been knocked out and that this was easily going to be the biggest test of his career.

He has never been so right as this fight was a war right from the start. Jason impressed me as always with his solid chin. Chris came out looking very fast with some crisp striking. He was using kicks punches, kicks and some spinning backfists to keep Dent guessing. All the whole Dent was working the leg kick. I think Dent wanted to slow Chris down, get him into the championship rounds and then put him on his back. The only problem with that was he did not take into account the heart that Lozano showed us all he had that night.

Going into the second round you could already see a welt starting to form on Lozano’s leg. It was clear that if this kept up he may lose all his power or end up unable to walk. As I was watching it struck me that we could be seeing a replay of the “Junior” Jose Aldo (16-1) versus “California Kid” Urijah Faber (23-4) fight. That fight had Aldo destroying the lead leg of Faber essentially making his striking and takedown attempts null and void.

However Chris seemed to dig deep and started switching stances and began throwing some of the most vicious elbows I have seen so far in the sport. He threw them from many different angles and you never could tell where the next one was coming from. Chris managed to do what so many have tried before and failed at which is to knock down Dent. Dent’s chin has never been a question but in this fight Lozano rocked him a few times.

In the end Ohio Athletic Commissioner Bernie Profato stopped the fight in between rounds. Dent was getting rocked and the fight was stopped “due to cuts”. Seeing Dent’s face I did not think any cut he had was bad enough to stop the fight and currently Fighters.com is awaiting a response from the Ohio Athletic Commission as the exactly what Mr. Profato saw that made him call the bout.

Lozano is a very hot prospect and showed in this fight that he has the skills, heart and warrior spirit to make it very far in this sport.