Bellator 24

[SPX]

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I've seen one of her fights and never heard of her opponent.

Well let me enlighten you.

She's currently 20-0. 17 of those wins are by stoppage (16 submissions and 1 TKO). She's a blackbelt in both judo and jiu-jitsu. According to Wikipedia, "Fujii is also a highly decorated fighter outside of mixed martial arts, with accomplishments including Japanese National Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champion, five Second Place finishes in the World Sambo Championships, Ground Impact Professional BJJ Tournament Champion and 2004 and 2006 BJJ Pan-Am Champion." She is currently being trained by Josh Barnett.

If there's a black mark on her record, it's that many of her wins are to inexperienced fighters and/or fighters with losing records. This seems to be common with female fighters, though.

Her opponent, Carla Esparza, is, from what I've read, a two-time All-American wrestler. In MMA, she's 3-0, with only one of those wins to a fighter with a winning record. I think her striking could potentially be better than Megumi's. That's just a guess from an article I read, though. I did watch two of her fights and her striking didn't look awesome or anything.

Just because of her wrestling background, I suppose she could stun the world with a decision via control. But of what I've watched from Megumi, she is usually the one in control.

[SPX]

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I didnt even realize they were girls till just now

Carla?

[zY|]

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I've seen one of her fights and never heard of her opponent.

Well let me enlighten you.

She's currently 20-0. 17 of those wins are by stoppage (16 submissions and 1 TKO). She's a blackbelt in both judo and jiu-jitsu. According to Wikipedia, "Fujii is also a highly decorated fighter outside of mixed martial arts, with accomplishments including Japanese National Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champion, five Second Place finishes in the World Sambo Championships, Ground Impact Professional BJJ Tournament Champion and 2004 and 2006 BJJ Pan-Am Champion." She is currently being trained by Josh Barnett.

If there's a black mark on her record, it's that many of her wins are to inexperienced fighters and/or fighters with losing records. This seems to be common with female fighters, though.

Her opponent, Carla Esparza, is, from what I've read, a two-time All-American wrestler. In MMA, she's 3-0, with only one of those wins to a fighter with a winning record. I think her striking could potentially be better than Megumi's. That's just a guess from an article I read, though. I did watch two of her fights and her striking didn't look awesome or anything.

Just because of her wrestling background, I suppose she could stun the world with a decision via control. But of what I've watched from Megumi, she is usually the one in control.

Yeah I've read all about her, just never actually watched her fights except the Bellator one, where she didn't exactly blow my skirt up. But yeah losing via control, that's probably the only thing I'd be worried about. That and her potentially being undersized.

[SPX]

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I'm trying to figure out how this is much different than GSP fighting a guy who is 3-0.

The line on that shit would be like -2000.

[Luke]

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I'm trying to figure out how this is much different than GSP fighting a guy who is 3-0.

The line on that shit would be like -2000.

Well its according to who that 3-0 fighter is .

[SPX]

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Well its according to who that 3-0 fighter is .

Does it really matter? They're 3-0. I mean, if unless they are documented to be able to harness their chi and shoot it across the cage or something, I'm not sure what factors would lead one to believe that such a green fighter could beat GSP.

[zY|]

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Because it's women's MMA, not the stacked UFC men's welterweight division.

[Luke]

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Does it really matter? They're 3-0. I mean, if unless they are documented to be able to harness their chi and shoot it across the cage or something, I'm not sure what factors would lead one to believe that such a green fighter could beat GSP.

Well will that insight Couture the UFC HW champ should have been -2000 to 2-1 Brock Lensar when they fought.


I mean it shouldnt matter Brock was an animal he was only 2-1 at the time

[Luke]

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SPX have you actually seen footage of these two girls fighting?

[SPX]

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Well will that insight Couture the UFC HW champ should have been -2000 to 2-1 Brock Lensar when they fought.


I mean it shouldnt matter Brock was an animal he was only 2-1 at the time

It's not exactly the same, because Couture was not, at that time, considered by many to be the P4P best female fighter in the world (which Fujii is right now). That's why I used the GSP example.

[SPX]

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SPX have you actually seen footage of these two girls fighting?

I've seen 2 of Carla's 3 fights.

And yes, I've seen some of Fujii's stuff. She has vids all over YouTube.

I just got done watching her Bellator fight. Not very exciting because her opponent wraps her up from the bottom and refuses to fight most of the time, but Fujii was clearly in control the entire time. Here's the fight:

http://squabbles.com/2010/07/megumi-fuj ... ght-video/

[MMA_scientist]

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^^ aren't you worried about a sprawl and brawl decision?

Those chick wrestlers are pretty good.

[MMA_scientist]

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You know more about chick fighters than any of us. I don't bet the women. I don't trust them.

[SPX]

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^^ aren't you worried about a sprawl and brawl decision?

Those chick wrestlers are pretty good.

I'm worried. If I didn't just recently get a good bit ahead then I wouldn't take the risk, but after the last event I'm up about 15u for the year.

I'm just thinking logically here. Megumi has great takedowns, is being trained by one of the best catch wrestlers in the world, and is just all around way fucking experienced.

She did get submitted by Kyra Gracie, though, in ADCC in 2005:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rLddFuWs0E

[SPX]

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A Fujii highlight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cBHXb977Vs