Erika Kamimura is the 2011 S-Girls Cup Champion

Erika Kamimura, RENA

So SHOOT BOXING had the S-Girls Cup show today at SHIBUYA-AX. To the surprise of no one, teen kickboxing champ Erika Kamimura won the tournament. SHOOT BOXING definitely favours kickboxers over MMA fighters it's basically kickboxing with throws. A lot of female MMA fighters have used SHOOT BOXING to improve their striking but there's no ground work allowed. So I expected Erika and Ham Seo Hee to make the final as they are the two best kickboxers in the tournament. In the first round, Kamimura won over Kanako Oka by TKO at 31 seconds of round two. She hammered her with punches and the ref stopped it. A bit of an upset as Miyo Yoshida won over WINDY Tomomi by majority decision. Then another upset as J-Girls kickboxer MINA won over VV Mei by majority decision. It looks like Mei won round one and Mina came back in the other two rounds. And then Ham Seo Hee won over Emi Fujino also by majority decision. So that means a judge scored all three fights as 30-30 draws. Huh? So they have this stupid rule in SHOOT BOXING that the fight is stopped after two knockdowns in a round. So in her semi final, Erika Kamimura beat Miyo Yoshida at 1:50 of round one after two knockdowns. That girl doesn't need that kind of help. Then Ham Seo Hee won over MINA by majority decision in a very close match. That's right. One of the judges scored it a draw. In the final, Ham Seo Hee gave Kamimura a run for her money. But in the end, Kamimura won by unanimous decision. I would like to see these two in a kickboxing match. After threatening to retire a couple of months ago, RENA returned triumphantly with a win over Thai kickboxer Zaza Sor Aree by TKO at 2:09 of round two. RENA dominated her. So why wasn't RENA in the tournament? SHOOT BOXING owner Takeshi Caesar used the old pro wrestling trick of keeping rivals away from each other and save the match for a big payday. That will happen at the Nov. 23 RISE show at Tokyo City Hall when RENA faces Erika Kamimura. That's a money match. In other matches, HIROKO dominated Megumi Yabushita. The match was stopped after two rounds when Yabushita blew out her knee. And what about RENA's sister MIO? Yoko Yamada was disqualified at 52 seconds of round one. She threw MIO to the mat and refused to break. There's no ground work in SHOOT BOXING and Yoko wouldn't stop pounding her on the ground. It almost seems like RENA was playing a gag on her sister. Well, that's SHOOT BOXING for you.