Monday, December 11, 2006

Takeshita, Carano win in big weekend fights


It's been a tough year in MMA for kickboxer WINDY Tomomi. While her training partner and good pal Hisae Watanabe is on top of the world, Tomomi suffered a devastating loss to Yuka Tsuji in June and considered leaving MMA. She attempted to continue her comeback against relative newcomer Kanako Takeshita on the Dec. 10 Pancrase Differ Ariake show. As a kickboxer, Tomomi's strength is her striking. Her history has been that she has trouble on the ground. That pattern continued as Tomomi tagged Takeshita with some hard shots but Takeshita was superior on the ground. Takeshita finally tied up Tomomi for good in the third round and won with an armbar at 2:18 of round three. Kanako Takeshita's record is now 4-0 and WINDY Tomomi's record is now 9-7. The accompanying pic of the submission is courtesy of the Gravity Japanese womens MMA fansite.







The other big fight this weekend was the first ever womens bout in Strikeforce in California on their Dec. 8 show in San Jose. The fighters were Gina Carano against local fighter Elaina Maxwell. She trains at Cung Le's dojo and he was in the main event. Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer was there and said it was a pretty good fight. Carano really took control in the third round and won a unanimous decision. Gina Carano is now 3-0 and Elaina Maxwell is 1-1. Just a note to wrestling fans. Daniel Puder won his fight over Mike Cook by choke submission at 2:31 of round two.

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