Megumi Fujii student Ayaka Hamazaki indicated that she may be following in the footsteps of her mentor as she stood toe-to-toe with one of the best kickboxers in women’s MMA in Seo Hee Ham, and battered and bruised Miku Matsumoto‘s former teammate Sakura Nomura to become the first Jewels lightweight champion at the promotion’s end-of-year event on Friday night at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
In the finals of “Rough Stone” rookie tournaments, Kikuyo Ishikawa and Hiroko Kitamura edged past their respective opponents to bring home the gold ,but it was 16-year-old Mizuki Inoue that really impressed. The young kickboxer-turned-mixed martial artist dominated and finished a much older opponent for the second time in two outings to win her first MMA title.