VALKYRIE matchmaker Yasuko Mogi's big problem is that due an injury to Yuka Tsuji, she really doesn't have a main event for the Oct. 24 Differ Ariake show. So they held a press conference today to announce that the main event of the show will be a Featherweight (52.2kg) match between Yasuko Mogi and Misaki Takimoto. Huh? Mogi's record is 4-4 and her last fight was a loss to Masako Yoshida on the May 24 Shooto show. Mogi said that she has wanted to fight in the cage for a while but not surprisingly she's very busy running VALKYRIE. Takimoto trains at Zendokai in Yokohama. Her record is 10-11-4 and she just lost on the main event of the Sept. 13 JEWELS show to Ham Seo Hee. So I guess Mogi thinks it's a big deal to get a fighter who just was on a main event of a JEWELS show to appear in VALKYRIE. Well, neither match is of main event quality. Someone should tell Mogi that a pat on the back is eighteen inches away from a kick in the pants. Of course I know an available fighter who is a main event fighter. But Roxanne Modafferi is on the outs with VALKYRIE management. They won't put her on the show. Yutaka Kubo of GCM was at the press conference and said they are trying to distinguish VALKYRIE from JEWELS by having the matches in a cage, allowing unlimited ground and pound etc. etc. But both companies should be concerned about putting on the best show possible and I don't think either of them are doing that right now. The one thing JEWELS has going for them is that their shows cost less to produce because of the ring. So they can run a smaller hall. VALKYRIE will always suffer financially by comparison.
Garbage main event.
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