Thursday, March 1, 2012

Robeet Sargent: With Four New Additions, Jewels: “18th Ring” Card Complete


With Four New Additions, Jewels: "18th Ring" Card Complete
Four new bouts have been added to Saturday’s Jewels: “18th Ring” event and the ten-fight card is now complete. Among the bouts announced by the promotion today was an amateur mixed martial arts matchup pitting Club Barbarian’s Satomi Takano against Alliance-Square Narita’s Miyuki Irie.
Also confirmed for the preliminary card was a pair of amateur kickboxing matches. Wano Sato returns to Jewels to face Reina Matsuda, while Miki battles Akiko Someya. Rounding out Saturday’s card is a grappling match between former featherweight contender Miyoko Kusaka and Mina Kurobe.

Jewels: “18th Ring” will be headlined by a lightweight showdown between top promotional star Mika “Future Princess” Nagano (8-6-0) and Emi “Kamikaze Angel” Fujino (10-5-0). The card also features a bout between former Strikeforce title challengers Roxanne “The Happy Warrior” Modafferi (15-9-0) and Takayo Hashi (13-4-0). Elsewhere, prospect Mizuki Inoue (2-1-0) returns to face unbeaten Australian Alexandra Chambers (2-0-0).
The event takes place this Saturday, March 3rd, at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan.
Go Yamamoto contributed to this report.
Jewels: “18th Ring” Fight Card (subject to change):
- Mika “Future Princess” Nagano vs Emi “Kamikaze Angel” Fujino [52kg Jewels Official Rules - 2x5]
- Roxanne “The Happy Warrior” Modafferi vs Takayo Hashi [58kg Jewels Special Rules - 2x5]
- Mizuki Inoue vs Alexandra Chambers [53.5kg Jewels Official Rules - 2x5]
- Yuko “Amiba” Oya vs Emi Tomimatsu [52kg Jewels Official Rules - 2x5]
- Ayame “Iris” Miura vs Celine Haga [52kg Jewels Official Rules - 2x5]
- Satomi Takano vs Miyuki Irie [47.5kg Jewels Amateur MMA Rules - 1x4]
- Yui Takada vs Satoko Ozawa [61.5kg Jewels Kickboxing Rules - 3x2]
- Wano Sato vs Reina Matsuda [54kg Jewels Amateur Kickboxing Rules - 2x2]
- Miki vs Akiko Someya [49kg Jewels Amateur Kickboxing Rules - 2x2]
- Miyoko Kusaka vs Mina Kurobe [51kg Jewels Grappling Rules - 2x4]

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