Several of the top female fighters on the Pancrase roster were in attendance at a press conference today in Tokyo, Japan to discuss training for their upcoming matchups at Pancrase 347, which takes place on September 29th. The card features a total of four women’s bouts including one title fight.
Strawweight Queen of Pancrase Haruka “Salt” Hasegawa faces current Shooto titleholder Emi “Kamikaze Angel” Fujino. Former flyweight champion Takayo Hashi, current atomweight champion Satomi “Sarami” Takano and former strawweight champion Karen also spoke about their featured fights.
Rebounding from a pair of razor-thin interim title fight defeats, 21-year-old rising star Machi Fukuda scored a dominant win in her strawweight main event bout tonight at Deep Jewels 46 in Tokyo, Japan. Fukuda submitted Morgane “Souris” Manfredi with a second-round arm-triangle choke.
Deep Jewels returned to New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan tonight with its latest all-female fight card. Deep Jewels 46 was headlined by a strawweight clash between recent two-time Deep Jewels interim title challenger Machi Fukuda and France’s Morgane “Souris” Manfredi, who made her promotional debut.
Shooto held its third all-female Colors event tonight at Shinjuku FACE in Tokyo, Japan. Shooto: “Colors 3” featured a vacant Shooto Women’s Atomweight Championship bout between Zenny “Lady Gogo” Huang and Aira Koga, who previously fought each other on the inaugural Colors card.
Rena Kubota overcame some early adversity and made her case for a future title shot with a punishing second-round TKO win tonight at Rizin Fighting Federation: “Super Rizin 3” in Saitama, Japan. Kubota stopped Deep Jewels prospect Kate “Lotus” Oyama in women’s super atomweight action.
After competing for more than 15 years, veteran bantamweight and flyweight contender Shizuka Sugiyama at last captured her first major MMA title tonight at Pancrase 346 in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. Sugiyama choked out Honoka Shigeta in the first round to become Flyweight Queen of Pancrase.
Recent interim strawweight title challenger Machi Fukuda hopes to rebound after back-to-back razor-thin decision defeats when she next competes on September 8th at Deep Jewels 46 in Tokyo, Japan. Fukuda meets France’s Morgane “Souris” Manfredi in one of 11 bouts announced for the card.
Saori “Little Giant” Oshima earned a swift victory and another championship title in the Deep Jewels 45 main event tonight in Tokyo, Japan. Oshima stopped Aya Murakami to unify the Deep and Deep Jewels Microweight Championships, then announced that she had signed with Invicta FC.