RIZIN held a press conference today to announce several matches for RIZIN 13 Sept. 30 at Saitama Super Arena. Two women's matches were announced. I would say one is important. The other is a time waster. The important match will have Ayaka Hamasaki facing Mina Kurobe. The winner of this match will probably face Kanna Asakura on RIZIN's NYE show. They haven't announced an Atomweight title yet but I hope they do and that match is for that title. Most fans should be familiar with Ayaka. She is 36 years old. Her record is 15-2. Ayaka was trained at AACC by Megumi Fujii. Since Megumi left to join her husband at Burst, Ayaka has taken over the women's program at AACC. For the last year, Ayaka put her own fighting career on hold to train RENA. But she returned with a win over Alyssa Garcia on the May 6 RIZIN show. Of course she is also a former Invicta Atomweight Champion. Mina is the current DEEP JEWELS Atomweight Champion. She is 41 years old. Her record is 15-3. She trains at Master Japan. The problem with her is the talent level at DEEP JEWELS is so low, I think it gives a false impression of her talent level. She's probably better than anyone in DEEP JEWELS. But when she went to Road FC in Korea, Ham Seo Hee beat her by TKO. So I guess the bottom line is Ayaka is an elite fighter and Mina isn't an elite fighter. Ayaka is still very quick and I doubt Mina will be able to handle that. The other women's match will have Miyuu Yamamoto vs Andy Nguyen. I don't care about that one.
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