Official Women's MMA Discussion Thread #13

[VolkHan]

Come

 

[curryjunkie]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29kPN_oIIs
155lb fight featuring another female dinky ninja, apologies if a repost.

 

[VolkHan]

Mizuki Inoue (魅津希）

Today was my Coming-of-Age Day celebration. In Japan this is a big event for anyone that turned 20.
How do I look in kimono?

Anyways, even in kimono, this is what I am thinking though - I am super anxious to fight for Invicta FC again!!!!

 

[Thirdpres]

Nice to see Charlene Donahue get a win in her pro debut against a 4-3 fighter. Would love to see Invicta sign her for their 155 division and match her against Veronica Rothenhausler. Charlene is undefeated as an Ammy and as a pro, all of her wins have been finishes. She's a little older, but has a Lauren Murphy vibe going for her.

Agreed. Nice win there for Donahue. I've liked what I have seen of her and would like to see her get into Invicta for their lightweight division.

I don't mind older fighters if they bring it. 8)

I feel having people who know what they are doing help to improve the overall quality of opposition over time. And at this point Invicta could use several additional lightweights; I don't think they can afford to have too many though and there isn't a ton of them out there so a handful more would work without putting on a drain on themselves.

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Rocks Xtreme MMA 11
Jessica Philippus def. Cat Ginorio by D'arce Choke in rd. 1.
Kathina Catron def. Katie Howard by UD.
Maylene Bellino def. Montana Stewart by UD.
Julia Jones def. Alyssa Garcia by SD.

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Mizuki - looking good there.

8)

 

[JarlSkuld]

I always forget how young she is: TODAY is her coming-of-age ceremony?! She has 10+ fights when she was practically a kid (actually, legally a kid her in Japan since you are not legally an adult until you are 20). Well, I think I'll go get some donuts and coffee...this is the one day a year when you can see literally dozens of beautiful kimonos paraded around.

Jarl

 

[Leek]

"The Invicta atomweight division is welcoming back Cassie Rodish.

The 34-year-old Iowa native has re-signed with the promotion nearly two years after her last appearance in the Invicta cage. Rodish has competed for the organizaiont on three occasions, falling short against Simona Soukupova, but submitting Meghan Wright at the promotion

 

[underdogftw]

I always forget how young she is: TODAY is her coming-of-age ceremony?! She has 10+ fights when she was practically a kid (actually, legally a kid her in Japan since you are not legally an adult until you are 20). Well, I think I'll go get some donuts and coffee...this is the one day a year when you can see literally dozens of beautiful kimonos paraded around.

Jarl

In action manga coming-of-age-ceremony usually means a huge power up hopefully this happens here as well .

 

[LilMountain]

I always forget how young she is: TODAY is her coming-of-age ceremony?! She has 10+ fights when she was practically a kid (actually, legally a kid her in Japan since you are not legally an adult until you are 20). Well, I think I'll go get some donuts and coffee...this is the one day a year when you can see literally dozens of beautiful kimonos paraded around.

Jarl

So she's now barely legal huh? :icon_chee

 

[Vigster]

In action manga coming-of-age-ceremony usually means a huge power up hopefully this happens here as well .

Somebody needs to shoop Mizuki in super saiyan mode

 

[Better Every Day]

Ayaka Hamasaki:
Winner of the 2014 WMMA Press Awards, Atomweight of the Year

An interview with Ayaka is translated into English for the article:

http://cjsreport.blogspot.com/2015/01/2014-wmma-press-awards-atomweight-of.html

 

[JarlSkuld]

So she's now barely legal huh? :icon_chee

Indeed.:icon_lol: She just turned 20, IIRC. The coming-of-age ceremony is held on second Monday in January every year....and it corresponds to your grade/class in school, so some participants - whose birthdays are in January, February or March - may not even be 20 years old yet. But, I believe Mizuki is - as you point out - barely legal.

I suspect she will "power up" this year...but maybe not enter the UFC quite yet.

Why is Ayaka Hamasaki the AW of the year? Shouldn`t it be Tiburcio?

Jarl

 

[Better Every Day]

But, I believe Mizuki is - as you point out - barely legal.

It depends upon what it is that "legality" is refering to. For instance, age of consent for sex is 18 in Japan (lower under some circumstances), but one needs to be 20 in order to marry without parental consent. (According to wikipedia, see link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Asia

 

[VolkHan]

2014 WMMA Press Award Winners

happy for Amanda Lino (6-0) as the Amateur of the Year, she's a legit fighter

 

[leto1776]

Indeed.:icon_lol: She just turned 20, IIRC. The coming-of-age ceremony is held on second Monday in January every year....and it corresponds to your grade/class in school, so some participants - whose birthdays are in January, February or March - may not even be 20 years old yet. But, I believe Mizuki is - as you point out - barely legal.

I suspect she will "power up" this year...but maybe not enter the UFC quite yet.

Why is Ayaka Hamasaki the AW of the year? Shouldn`t it be Tiburcio?

Jarl

Two fights compared to one? Also doesn't help that since the fight, people have been calling Waterson overrated (amazing how that often that happens after a loss, but not before) which diminishes Tiburcio's win.

 

[Better Every Day]

Amanda Bell Awarded WMMA Press Featherweight of the Year

https://wombatsports.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/amanda-bell-awarded-wmma-press-featherweight-of-the-year/

 

[flanellograf]

Anyone have any info on Pauline Pita Macias, who is seen training with Rousey here: http://instagram.com/p/x0PcMohEfg/

Apparently she is going into mma.

 

[judoka27]

Anyone have any info on Pauline Pita Macias, who is seen training with Rousey here: http://instagram.com/p/x0PcMohEfg/

Apparently she is going into mma.

As life long judoka and member of US national team she is a trained combat athlete who should be a force to be reckoned with in the grappling dept. She is nowhere near Rousey's level when it comes to international comp credentials though. It will be interesting to see how she does. She is a straw weight.

 

[LilMountain]

Two fights compared to one? Also doesn't help that since the fight, people have been calling Waterson overrated (amazing how that often that happens after a loss, but not before) which diminishes Tiburcio's win.

A fair number of people were saying that before. If Penne hadnt decided to go to UFC she'd have already been champ again

 

[Furious George]

Amanda Bell Awarded WMMA Press Featherweight of the Year

https://wombatsports.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/amanda-bell-awarded-wmma-press-featherweight-of-the-year/

Good year for Bell, much to my chagrin

Moves from being 0-2 with a win over a standard fare regional fighter, wouldn't be much to write home about but she'd clearly started to sort the deficiencies in her ground game, knocks out a top prospect in Shafir (Sad face here) and then makes her Invicta debut with a with a quality first round TKO over a seriously experienced veteran

 

[flanellograf]

As life long judoka and member of US national team she is a trained combat athlete who should be a force to be reckoned with in the grappling dept. She is nowhere near Rousey's level when it comes to international comp credentials though. It will be interesting to see how she does. She is a straw weight.

Cool, thx.