GCM did a very strange thing yesterday. They held a press conference to announce some matches for the June 27 CAGE FORCE show and afterwards announced a couple of matches for the July 12 Differ Ariake show and one of those matches is a VALKYRIE match. It's almost like most of the media skipped out after the initial announcement and weren't told that there was another announcement. But CAGE FORCE did post something on their website and GB Ring did hang around for the second announcement. It's the number one contender match for Yuka Tsuji's VALKYRIE Featherweight Championship between Kyoko Takabayashi and V1. Takabayashi (pictured with GCM president Kubo) is 9-3 and she won over WINDY Tomomi on the Apr. 25 VALKYRIE show. V1 is 4-2 and won over Emi Fujino on the Apr. 25 VALKYRIE show. She also lost to Yuka Tsuji on the first VALKYRIE show. V1 was not at the press conference I don't see either of them beating Tsuji. I don't know if there will be any more VALKYRIE matches on this CAGE FORCE show. This is similar to what they did a few months ago. It's an important match for these two fighters and GCM seems to be treating it as an afterthought.
women are always an afterthought in Japan.
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