Monday, September 11, 2006

D'Auguste returns Smackgirl Middleweight Title, title match on 9/15 show


Smackgirl has announced that Laura D'Auguste has returned her Smackgirl Middleweight Title and there will a Smackgirl Middleweight Title match on the Sept. 15 Korakuen Hall show. D'Auguste won the title in Aug. 2005. Smackgirl claims that they had attempted to sign D'Auguste to defend the title on next week's show against Hitomi Akano. But it's been known for a while that D'Auguste was unlikely to return to Smackgirl due to a disagreement between Samackgirl management and Team Tiger Schulman who represent her. I understand this is over some of the Smackgirl rules which are different from standard MMA rules. So now it's official.





A Smackgirl Middleweight Title match has been added to the Sept. 15 Korakuen Hall show. It will be Hitomi Akano (pictured) vs Molly Helsel. Akano is a teammate of Megumi Fujii and a rising star of MMA. Her 6-1 record includes victories over Debi Purcell & Emma Bush. Her only loss is to Tara LaRosa. This will be Molly Helsel's first trip to Japan. She trained in Hawaii but is now training at Apex Jiu Jitsu in California with Debi Purcell. Very interesting. Her record is 3-3 and was runner up at last November's Hook 'N' Shoot tournament. The match is sceduled for three five minute rounds.






The other match is a Lightweight match with MIKU vs Lisa Ward. MIKU has a 5-2 record. Her most recent victory over Brazilian Carina Damm on the Aug. 26 GCM show avenged an earlier defeat. This will be her first Smackgirl appearance. This will be Lisa Ward's first trip to Japan. She is from Vancouver, BC and trains in Seattle. Smackgirl says she is a Lightweight champ for a company called NFC. Her record is 5-2 and she lost to Molly Helsel in that Hook 'N' Shoot tournament. All bouts are for two five minute rounds unless otherwise indicated. Here's the card so far.






SMACKGIRL - 9/15/06 - Korakuen Hall

52KG BOUT-Fuuka vs Mai

48KG BOUT-Ayumi "Edge" Saito vs Ikuko Tamada

53KG BOUT-Akiko Naito vs Kyoko Takabayashi

54KG BOUT-WINDY Tomomi vs Seri

48KG BOUT-Masako Yoshida vs Eri Kanetari

OPEN WEIGHT BOUT-Tama Chan vs Natsuko Kamei

LIGHTWEIGHT BOUT-MIKU vs Lisa Ward

NEXT CINDERELLA TOURNAMENT MIDDLEWEIGHT FINAL-Sakura Nakamura vs Kaneko Takeshita

NEXT CINDERELLA TOURNAMENT FLYWEIGHT SEMI FINAL-KM-MAKI vs Fukuko Hamada

SMACKGIRL MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE BOUT-3 5 min. rounds-Hitomi Akano vs Molly Helsel

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