OK here it is folks. It is Rin Nakai vs Danielle West from Sunday's PANCRASE show at Differ Ariake. The show was broadcast on Samurai TV Sunday night and I knew it would take a couple of days for it to show up. As you probably already know, the match was ruled a split draw. The match was contracted for 70kg and Rin said on Friday that she would be giving up 7kg. Her flight was canceled so she didn't make Saturday's weigh in. They did that Sunday morning. Danielle was at 69kg and Rin was at 63kg. I think that was a big mistake. Of course I don't think she should be fighting at the heavier weight anyway. 135 is a better weight for her. It was a very close fight. Danielle knocked Rin down early in the first round. This is the first time Rin has ever been knocked down. It didn't hurt her. If you watch the angle of the punch, she obviously didn't see it coming. So she freaked out for a moment and then got back to business. Rin got the takedown and controlled Danielle for the rest of the round. She tried several armbars but was never able to get it hooked properly. So I gave Rin round one 10-9 because of the ground control. I don't think the knockdown punch was significant. In round two, Danielle again could not stop Rin from taking her down and for most of the round, Rin had ground control. So round two is again 10-9 Rin. In round three, Danielle was finally able to stuff a couple of takedowns and she also landed some good combinations and some significant ground and pound. I scored the round 10-9 for Danielle. I don't think she did enough to get a 10-8. So I scored the fight 29-28 for Rin Nakai. But I could see how it could be called a draw. So one judge scored it a draw. The second judge scored it 29-28 for Rin and the third judge scored it 29-28 for Danielle. So the result was a split draw. It was close mostly because of the third round. You can judge for yourself. Afterwards, Rin did a cosplay autograph session. She dressed up as a nurse. Apparently there was a long lineup to see her. There are some who object to her doing that stuff and the sexy photos she puts on her blog. I'm used to it because of the long history of joshi puroresu girls doing sexy photobooks. And some of those girls have done nudity. So if Rin enjoys doing them, I don't mind looking at them. She's still a hell of a fighter. Some girls would have folded like a cheap suitcase after being dropped early in the fight. She didn't do that and I think she won the fight. But I would prefer to see her fight at 135. On the first video, go to the 43 minute mark for the start of the match. The third round is at the start of the second video. Enjoy!
1 by Zee2TehPee
2 by Zee2TehPee
No comments:
Post a Comment