VALKYRIE held a press conference today to announce the card for their Feb. 11 Differ Ariake show. GCM president Yutaka Kubo announced the long time limited ground and pound rules will be rescinded at this event. This is long overdue and indicates that JEWELS may do the same thing. The main event of this show will have Yuka Tsuji defending the VALKYRIE Featherweight (52.2kg) Championship against V1. This bout was postponed due to Tsuji suffering an injury while training. Tsuji has been one of Japan's top fighters for several years. She trains at Angura and her record is 22-1. Her last win was over Kate Martinez on the Apr. 25 VALKYRIE show. V1 won this title shot with a win over Kyoko Takabayashi on the July 12 CAGE FORCE/VALKYRIE show. She trains at Max Jiu Jitsu and her record is 5-2. This match is scheduled for three five minute rounds. VALKYRIE is running a Flyweight (45.4kg) Championship tournament. In the first match, Naoko Omuro will face Yuko Takagi. Omuro trains at WK. Her record is 10-7-3 and her last fight was a win over Yukiko Seki at thr Oct. 24 VALKYRIE show. Takagi trains at Angura. She lost in her debut to Happy Fukuko on the Oct. 24 VALKYRIE show. In the second match, Happy Fukuko (Fukuko Hamada) will face Yasuko Tamada. Fukuko trains at Cobra KAI. Her record is 5-3. Tamada trains at AACC. Her record is 9-4-3 and her last fight was a win over Misaki Takimoto on the Feb. 24 JEWELS show. Tamada won over Fukuko in their previous encounter on July 27, 2008 DEEP show Both matches are scheduled for three three minute rounds.
In a Welterweight match (61.2kg), Rin Nakai will face Mizuho Sato. Nakai is now training at Shooto in Shikoku. Her record is 5-0 and her last win was over WINDY Tomomi on the Dec. 7, 2008 Pancrase show. And though this is her VALKYRIE debut, Nakai is one of Japan's top fighters and is an excellent acquisition for VALKYRIE. Sato trains at WK. Her record is 5-3 and her last fight was a win over Chisa Yonezawa on the Nov. 14 GCM Demolition West show. This match is scheduled for three three minute rounds. In a Featherweight (52.2kg) match, SACHI will face sakura. SACHI now trains at Angura. Her record is 6-4-1 and her last fight was a win over Maho Muranami at the Oct. 24 VALKYRIE show. sakura is 0-1-1 and her last fight was a loss to Madoka Ebihara on the July 12 CAGE FORCE/VALKYRIE show. In a Bantamweight (48.5kg) match, Mamiko Mizoguchi will face Megumi Morioka. Mizoguchi trains at Alliance-Square. Her record is 2-3-1 and her last fight was a win over Ayumi Funakoshi at the Jan. 25 ZST show. Morioka trains at the Iwate branch of WK and is making her MMA debut. These two matches are scheduled for two three minute rounds. Expect some more matches to be announced shortly.
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