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 Frankie Griggs, the son of US Marine Sergeant Major Donovan "Donny" Griggs, took up boxing at a young age.
He originally had aspirations to become a Marine like his father but once reaching high school he began learning defensive wrestling and in return fell in love with MMA.
Starting his Amateur career at 16, he went 8-0 in a span of two years when he received a license to professionally fight. His professional career hadn't started off well, at a QFC event in Vegas he suffered a submission loss via Rear Naked Choke in the first round. Despite this hickup he still recieved a contract with GAMMA D League and made his promotional debut against Connor Royale.
He fought for 2 hard rounds and despite being rocked in round 2, he managed to gain 2-0 on the score cards. However going into the 3rd he was still a little dazed as 3 seconds into the round he was clipped and covered up against the cage until he saw an opportunity to weave out of the situation like he had planned but instead the ref stepped in and called the fight in just 5 seconds into round 3. The fans were unhappy with the stoppage and so was Griggs but Royale seemed more than pleased to walk off with the TKO result. After that fight he moved over to BFC for a 1 fight deal, taking an openweight fight against clinch master Haljberg Oezdemir.
After 3 rounds of an all out slugfest, Griggs managed to pull the first victory of his career as he KO'd Oezdemir in under 2 minutes of round 3. After the 1 fight stint with BFC he went back to GDL, his next fight in the promotion against grappling ace Weston Hodkiewicz ended up in highlight reels all over the world when he stuffed Weston's takedown attempts with ease and dodged Weston's strikes, ducking under as he came back up with a Street Fighter-esque uppercut that sent Weston flying! This KO started a still ongoing streak of clean counter knockouts whch has sky-rocketed this young 19 year olds record from 0-2 all the way to 4-2 with 4 KO's in a row. He stays with GDL currently and at the moment his management says that Griggs eyes a rematch against Royale, Griggs is incredibly bitter about that fight and wants to get that one back. It's exciting to see such a violent comeback and we hope that the comeback will continue to a title shot in GDL!
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