{"id":6707,"date":"2023-09-05T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.monsterjam.com\/weekend-recap-el-toro-loco-and-grave-digger-battle-it-out-in-san-jose\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:59:35","slug":"weekend-recap-el-toro-loco-and-grave-digger-battle-it-out-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/news\/weekend-recap-el-toro-loco-and-grave-digger-battle-it-out-in-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Recap: El Toro Loco and Grave Digger Battle it out in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armando Castro (El Toro Loco) took the spotlight in his home state of California as Monster Jam visited the SAP Center in San Jose last weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Armando Castro is your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BKTtires?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BKTtires<\/a> Overall Event Champion for event 4\ufe0f\u20e3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MonsterJam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MonsterJam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOua48owJo\">pic.twitter.com\/VOua48owJo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monster Jam (@MonsterJam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterJam\/status\/1698468754529615898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Castro claimed three of the four available event championships and found himself winning the lion\u2019s share of the competition. However, Tyler Menninga (Grave Digger) scored the event win on Saturday night to prevent Castro from sweeping the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tyler Menninga is back to his winning ways and takes event number 3\ufe0f\u20e3 in San Jose ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MonsterJam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MonsterJam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o3ioODe1Fm\">pic.twitter.com\/o3ioODe1Fm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monster Jam (@MonsterJam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterJam\/status\/1698187921277206812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Menninga won each of the four timed racing competitions. Castro and Menninga each picked up a pair of wins in Freestyle and Skills competitions. Castro was a two-time winner in Donut action, which also saw victories for Dalton Widner (Jurassic Attack) and Jeff Souza (Earth Shaker).<\/p>\n<p>The event also marked the Monster Jam debut for competitors Tim Hall Jr. (Scooby-Doo) and Devin Winfield (Megalodon).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a save from the rookie, Devin Winfield ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MonsterJam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MonsterJam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hU3o12dthV\">pic.twitter.com\/hU3o12dthV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monster Jam (@MonsterJam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterJam\/status\/1698181868347167124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armando Castro (El Toro Loco) took the spotlight in his home state of California as Monster Jam visited the SAP Center in San Jose last weekend. Armando Castro is your @BKTtires Overall Event Champion for event 4\ufe0f\u20e3#MonsterJam pic.twitter.com\/VOua48owJo \u2014 Monster Jam (@MonsterJam) September 3, 2023 Castro claimed three of the four available event championships and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","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\/ -->\n<title>Weekend Recap: El Toro Loco and Grave Digger Battle it out in San Jose | Monster Jam\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterjam.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekend Recap: El Toro Loco and Grave Digger Battle it out in San Jose | Monster Jam\u00ae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Armando Castro (El Toro Loco) took the spotlight in his home state of California as Monster Jam visited the SAP Center in San Jose last weekend. 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