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SHOOT BOXING held a press conference today at the J-POP Cafe to announce the complete lineup and brackets for the 2011 S-Girls Cup. Unfortunately, the lead story is not a good one. You may recall that a first round match announced for the tournament was SHOOT BOXING Women's Champ Ai Takahashi against teen kickboxing champ Erika Kamimura. It was billed as a super fight. Sadly, that fight has been cancelled. Ai Takahashi suffered a broken orbital bone in her left eye during training. SHOOT BOXING owner Takeshi Caesar said he hopes Takahashi will return in November but she's out of this show. It was also announced that two time S-Girls Cup champ RENA will be on the show but not in the tournament. Her opponent will be announced later. A reason for this was not given. Very odd. They decided to set the first round matchups by random draw and announce the other fighters who will participate. The first match will have veteran MMA fighter Emi Fujino vs Korean fighter Ham Seo Hee. Fujino has been doing a lot of kickboxing for J-Girls lately and was a recent TKO victim of Erika Kamimura. Ham has probably got a shot to win the whole thing as she is a great kickboxer. The second match will have former VALKYRIE champ VV Mei vs MINA who is a J-Girls kickboxer. The third match will have veteran fighter WINDY Tomomi vs Miyo Yoshida. WINDY is another great kickboxer and could win this tournament. Yoshida's MMA record is 1-2. And the fourth match will have teen kickboxing champ Erika Kamimura vs Kanako Oka who is a J-Girls kickboxer. In the semis, the winner of VV Mei vs MINA will face the winner of Ham vs Fujino. And the winner of WINDY vs Yoshida will face the winner of Kamimura vs Oka. Then the final. It's all happening Aug. 19 at SHIBUYA-AX.
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