{"id":35820,"date":"2025-05-05T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/?p=35820"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:49:04","slug":"weekend-recap-jon-zimmer-jr-clinches-arena-central-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/news\/weekend-recap-jon-zimmer-jr-clinches-arena-central-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Recap: Jon Zimmer Jr. Clinches Arena Central Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section \n  id=\"main-custom-content-block\"\n  style=\"padding-top:px;padding-bottom:px;background-color:;color:;\"\n>\n  <div class=\"container container-c\">\n    <div class=\"split\" style=\"gap:px;\">\n                        <div class=\"side \">\n\n                                          <p>Jon Zimmer Jr. became the latest driver to clinch a series championship last weekend as Monster Jam roared into East Rutherford, Southaven, and Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium East \u2013 East Rutherford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just one event now remains in Stadium Championship Series East, and just one point separates Grave Digger\u2019s Tyler Menninga and Zombie\u2019s Bari Musawwir, who have had a back-and-forth season-long points battle. Menninga entered the weekend behind Musawwir in points, but then went on to win JCB Racing and, most importantly, the Overall Event Championship, giving him the 1-point edge heading into Pittsburgh. Armando Castro (El Toro Loco) won Skills, while Joe Foley had an impressive Freestyle run in AXE that gave him the win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freestyle Foley is BACK!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nks4cHBlCps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/results\/east-rutherford-nj-metlife-stadium-may-3-2025\/\">Full Event Results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arena Central \u2013 Southaven<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jon Zimmer Jr. (Terminal Velocity) clinched the title Saturday night during the Skills Challenge, when his second-place finish behind Triton Robbins (Krazy Train) secured enough points to clinch the title. There is still a great battle between Matt Cody (Grave Digger) and Jamie Sullivan (Sparkle Smash) who left the Landers Center last weekend tied on championship points for second. The Robbins brothers had a strong weekend, with Triton winning three of the four JCB Racing competitions and three of the four Overall Event Championships, and Montana (Plane Krazy) winning the opening JCB Racing event of the weekend. Fernando Castro (El Toro Loco) also impressed with a great save during Sunday\u2019s Skills Challenge, which gave him the competition victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arena Series Central Champion!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yx26Ij95ODk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/results\/southaven-ms-landers-center-may-2-4-2025\/\">Full Event Results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arena East \u2013 Colorado Springs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zack Garner (Wild Side), usually a driver in Stadium Championship Series West, entered Colorado Springs as a fill-in driver this weekend and took home two JCB Racing victories. Krysten Anderson (Grave Digger) picked up a Freestyle win on Friday. Otherwise, every competition throughout the weekend was won by either points leader Blake Granger (Monster Mutt Dalmatian) or El Toro Loco\u2019s MJ Solorio. Blake won three out of the four Overall Event Championships, while MJ won the fourth, but two remaining points weekends means the title isn\u2019t Blake\u2019s just yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/results\/colorado-springs-co-broadmoor-world-arena-may-2-4-2025\/\">Full Event Results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n                          \n          <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-weekend-recap"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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