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SHOOT BOXING announced today that RENA's 16 year old sister MIO will make her SHOOT BOXING debut on the Aug. 19 S-Girls Cup show at SHIBUYA-AX. The match is contracted for 48kg and her opponent is the veteran Yoko Yamada. MIO trains with her sister at the Oikawa Gym in Osaka. SHOOT BOXING claims that MIO has held several amateur titles. She says it is her dream to follow in her sister's footsteps. You gotta love the sailor suit in the pic. Yoko Yamada has been around the Japanese combat sports business for a decade doing all kinds of things. She started out wanting to be a pro wrestler but all the joshi companies told her at the time that she was way too tiny. She made her MMA debut in 2003 and compiled a 6-1 record. But she hasn't fought since a win over MIYOKO on the Dec. 2009 JEWELS show. Several years ago she won the WAF World Arm Wrestling Championship and proceeded to publish a sexy photobook afterwards. She returned to pro wrestling a few years ago with Ibuki but quit after a few months. She also does modelling and ring girl work. I don't know if she has ever done SHOOT BOXING. This is the first time Yoko's name has come up in a couple of years so I don't know what she has been doing. She still trains at PUREBRED. There is also a rumour that HIROKO's Dutch opponent is being replaced by Megumi Yabushita. SHOOT BOXING hasn't announced this. It's possible they are having visa problems with the Dutch girl and Yabushita is standing by if the problem can't be solved in the next couple of days.
She is so cute and tiny! I can not believe she chose boxing as a career.
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