Yesterday DEEP JEWELS added several matches to their Mar. 10 Shinjuku FACE show. The main event will have Mina Kurobe defending her DEEP JEWELS Atomweight championship against Sarami who earned the title shot last month. This match does nothing for me. It just shows how low the DEEP JEWELS talent level is. That's the only reason Kurobe is in a main event. Never mind that she has the belt. When she has fought someone decent like Ham Seo Hee last June, she has lost. And she is 40 years old. Sarami has been around for a few years and she's 27 years old with an 11-9 record. So she has had mixed results at best. She beat Tomo Maesawa, another mediocre fighter, to earn this title shot. Her big flaw is inconsistency. At one time they were high on her and then she lost a bunch of fights including one to Kurobe. So that's the problem. You have midcard talent in a main event championship fight. Blah! In a Flyweight bout, Kana Watanabe will face Yukari Nabe. Kana is 29 years old. She won her first two fights including a win over Shizuka Sugiyama on the recent RIZIN show. Her background is judo. She had some amateur success. She is also attractive which goes a long way in Japan. The problem with her is there isn't much competition for her in Japan. Most fighters these days are Atomweight. Yukari is 30 years old from Toyama. She made her DEEP JEWELS debut in 2016 after competing in amateur judo and Shooto. Her record is 3-2. My concern is Kana will stagnate fighting low level competition as it seems to have happened to King REINA. And REINA will be on this show too. In an Atomweight bout, Hikaru Aono will face Anna Kiriyama. These two were supposed to fight in December but Anna got injured. This will be Anna's pro debut. Her training is in karate. Hikaru's training is in wrestling which she did in college. She lost in December so her record is 0-1-1. In a Flyweight bout, Amiba will face Hikari. Amiba is 30 years old. She trains at AACC and her record is 8-5. The big thing is she normally fights at Strawweight. Hikari is from Niigata. Her background is judo. She won the 2017 All Japan Shooto Amateur Championships. But she lost her December pro debut to Kana Watanabe. So I guess they are looking for Amiba to win and then get fed to Kana. In an Atomweight bout, we have idol Nanaka Kawamura making her pro debut against Mizuki Furuse. Nanaka is 22 years old. She is from the idol group Masked Women. Unlike her December match, this match will be full MMA rules. DEEP JEWELS has big plans for Nanaka if she's good because she brings a fanbase with her. Mainstream stardom in Japan is a possibility. Mizuki is a 16 year old high school student. Her record is 1-3. Two of her losses were by TKO. Her amateur experience is junior high judo. I don't think she has enough experience to be a pro fighter. But they aren't looking for this fight to be competitive. I expect more fights to be announced for this show.
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