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| Hitomi Akano |
Pro Elite announced a couple of weeks ago that 2004 Olympic wrestling silver medalist Sara McMann would be on their Jan. 21 show in Hawaii. It was reported today that veteran submission specialist Hitomi Akano will be her opponent. Hitomi trains at AACC with her long time best pal Megumi Fujii. Her record is 18-8 and 14 of those wins have been by submission. Her last fight was a win over Roxanne Modafferi on the July 9 JEWELS show. Hitomi's calling card is her ability to get submissions from any position. That ability means that opponents need to be very careful with her as she will try stuff like flying armbars routinely. Apparently Hitomi signed a three fight deal with Pro Elite. A couple of years ago she talked about retiring. She was just married at the time. As I said at the time, Hitomi and Megumi have been best friends for over twenty years. So I expect them to retire together. And of course Megumi will be in her corner for this fight. Sara McMann trains at Revolution MMA. Her record is 4-0 and her last win was over Raquel Pa'aluhi on the Aug. 27 Pro Elite show. Sara won by submission in round three but I thought Sara should have finished the undersized Raquel a lot sooner. And in July, she won over Tonya Evinger by unanimous decision. She seemed to have trouble with Tonya in round three. And again Tonya was undersized as Sara refused to drop to 135 which is Tonya's normal fighting weight. This fight is contracted for 135lb.
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