RIZIN announces Kanako Murata's MMA debut for RIZIN FF 1

[Edwin]

Kanako Murata will be facing 2-1 Russian Natalya Denisova at 53 kg

 

[manboy<3]

Kanako is a pretty good wreslter (not world class) but Denisova seems to just have a poor MMA background

Looks like a crush match...

 

[dmwalking]

Who?

 

[LHWBelt]

Never heard of him. Wrestling's a great base though so we'll see.

 

[Xuh]

Kanako is a pretty good wreslter (not world class)

Well, she only has a win over World champions and olympic medallists...

but Denisova seems to just have a poor MMA background

Looks like a crush match...

We'll see but it's her first bout and she's been training MMA as long as... since September.
So she should be getting crush matches (if that is indeed how it plays out).

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

Kanako Murata:

International Tournaments:
1st place: 2009 Asian Junior Championship (Cadets) in Pune / India (60kg)
1st place: 2010 Asian Junior Championship in Huangshan / China (59kg)
3rd place: 2010 Junior World Championships in Budapest (59kg)
1st place: 2011 "Ivan Yarigin" -Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk (55kg)
2nd place: 2011 Klippan-Golden Grand Prix (55kg)
2nd place: 2011 Golden Grand Prix in Baku (55kg)
1st place: 2011 Junior World Championships in Bucharest (55kg)
1st place: 2012 "Ivan Yarigin" -Golden Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk (55kg)
1st place: 2012 Asian Championships in Gumi / South Korea (55kg)
8th place: 2012 World Cup in Tokyo (55kg)
1st place: 2012 Junior World Championships in Pattaya (55kg)
1st place: 2012 Golden Grand Prix in Baku (55kg)
2nd place: 2013 Asian Championships in New Delhi (55kg)
3rd place: 2013 Universiade in Kazan (55kg)

Japanese Tournaments:
2010: 3rd (55kg)
2011: 2nd (55kg)
2012: 1st (55kg)
2013: 3rd (55kg)

She's no slouch.

Can't find much info about her opponent. She fought at the same Russian championships as Anna Malyukova and went 2-0.

 

[Xuh]

It seems that Denisova is running a smooth trash talking game (if google translate can be believed)

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160328-00000009-gbr-fight

<Natalia Denisova comments> ... I will do my best in order to crush Bukkake her.

Kanako responds:

When asked that Natalia has commented that "I will do my best in order to crush Bukkake her", did not going through with exactly the meaning of the provocation of the other party, "the game is all please say what even".

Indeed

 

[LHWBelt]

Her.

Ah thanks I see that now lol

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

"Before making the move to Wrestling Murata did Judo, winning several national school titles. She has trained MMA since September of 2015"

Former Sengoku & current DEEP champ Kazunori Yokota is her coach...

Denisova's father was 2x Russian Pankration champ.