{"id":267401,"date":"2018-01-04T06:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=267401"},"modified":"2018-01-04T06:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:02:25","slug":"clinch-gains-twin-wins-art-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/clinch-gains-twin-wins-art-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Clinch\u2019 gains twin wins in Art of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_267427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267427\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trenchpixnew.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince \u201cThe Clinch\u201d Masga, second right, poses with other participants in last Saturday\u2019s Art of War 12: Grappling Submission Fighting Challenge held at the Trench Tech Gym in Garapan. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vince \u201cThe Clinch\u201d Masga led the winners list in Trench Tech\u2019s Art of War 12: Grappling Submission Fighting Challenge after topping two categories of last Saturday\u2019s competition at Trench Tech Gym in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>Masga first claimed the welterweight crown and later secured the heavyweight championship, too in the one-day tournament that had a winner-take-all format and awarded $50 cash to the victor.<\/p>\n<p>In the featherweight competition, Giovanni Taitingfong was the last man standing, besting six other participants. In the lightweight, Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez came out victorious against seven other grapplers. Rounding out the roster of winners was Spike 22\/Steel Athletics Guam\u2019s Kenji Okiyama, who prevailed against seven other participants in the middleweight class.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty individuals joined the Art of War 12, including the lone female participant\u2014Seahara Cruz. Majority of the grapplers were entered into two to three weight classes and winners were decided on points (if no submission was made) at the end of the three-minute bout.<\/p>\n<p>The Art of War 12 was Trench Tech\u2019s last competition for 2017 and the MMA group has yet to make an announcement on its calendar of events for the new year. However, Trench Tech is expected to have the regular Rites of Passage and Trench Warz for 2018 and will continue having Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, kickboxing, and circuit training classes at its gym.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Cuki Alvarez at 783-4MMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince \u201cThe Clinch\u201d Masga led the winners list in Trench Tech\u2019s Art of War 12:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":267427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19627,2325,19628,2842],"class_list":["post-267401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-giovanni-taitingfong","tag-mma","tag-seahara-cruz","tag-trench-tech-gym"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}