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| Rin Nakai, Danielle West |
As I reported exclusively yesterday, Rin Nakai is returning to the cage on the Sept. 4 PANCRASE show at Differ Ariake. Unlike most Japanese MMA fights, this will be in a cage. Today PANCRASE announced that her opponent will be British fighter Danielle West. The fight is contracted for Open Weight with an upper limit of 70kg and it's scheduled for three five minute rounds. I don't see the weight as a big issue for Rin. She usually fights at 135 but because the VALKYRIE tournament was Open Weight, she put on weight to fight Super Benkei who normally fights at 145. Then she took the weight off to fight Mizuho Sato in the tournament final who normally fights at 135. It didn't seem to matter. Danielle normally fights at 145. At 5'6", she has a big height advantage. Rin is 5'1" but Super Benkei is a lot taller than her too. She doesn't seem to care about any of that. Danielle trains at PANCRASE London. Her record is 3-2 and her last fight was a TKO loss to Elina Nilsson on the May 7 Zone FC show in Gothenberg, Sweden. Danielle was supposed to fight Esui on the Mar. 11 JEWELS show. But as we all know, that show was cancelled by the earthquake. Despite her youth, Rin has a big experience advantage over Danielle and probably a power edge too. Plus Rin was a amateur judo champ as a teen. I predict that Rin will do backflips after the match.
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