JEWELS: Fifth Ring Results

119-pound Rough Stone GP participants "Amiba," Nagano and Tomita

Results are in for Sunday's JEWELS event at Shinjuku Face, and it looks like there were more than a few upsets on the evening. Foremost amongst the surprises: the "Face of JEWELS," Shizuka Sugiyama, suffered her first loss as she was eliminated in the opening round of the 60kg Rough Stone Grand Prix by German import Alexandra Sanchez, who took a unanimous decision.

In another tournament upset, the debuting Yuko Kagoshima took a dehydrated Yuko "Amiba" Oya out of the 119-pound bracket after "Amiba" needed two tries to make weight yesterday.

The main event saw Seo Hee Ham upset Misaki Takimoto despite Ham having only arrived from Korea late on Saturday and missing the weigh-in.

Just about the only predictable result was Mika Nagano defeating Rina Tomita for the second time in three months. Their first bout ended when Nagano secured a second round armbar; this time she needed only 2 minutes and 25 seconds.

JEWELS - Fifth Ring
September 13, 2009
Shinjuku Face
Tokyo, Japan

Main Event - 108 lbs: Seo Hee Ham (4-3) def. Misaki Takimoto (10-11-4) via Unanimous Decision

Open: Megumi Yabushita (18-15) def. Atsuko Emoto (2-3) via Submission (Armbar) 2:43 of Round 1

132 lbs GP: Alexandra Sanchez (2-0) def. Shizuka Sugiyama (5-1) via Unanimous Decision

132 lbs GP: Tomoko Morii (1-1) def. Chihiro Oikawa (1-2) via Submission (Armbar) 4:13 of Round 1

119 lbs GP: Mika Nagano (4-2) def. Rina Tomita (2-2) via Submission (Armbar) at 2:25 of Round 1

119 lbs GP: Yuko Kagoshima (1-0) def. Yuko "Amiba" Oya (2-1) via Unanimous Decision

105 lbs GP: Asami Kodera (4-3) def. Shinsaki Ozawa (0-4) via Submission (Triangle Armbar) at 1:56 of Round 2

114 lbs: Kikuyo Ishikawa (2-0) def. Asako Saioka (3-4) via Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) at 1:28 of Round 1

Grappling: Ayuka Hamazaki (AACC) def. Hikaru Shida (Ice Ribbon) via Kimura at 1:38

So the finals are now set for all three 2009 Rough Stone Grand Prix brackets, and they look like this:

48kg/105 lbs: Asami Kodera (4-3) vs. Kikuyo Ishikawa (1-0)

54kg/119 lbs: Mika Nagano (3-2) vs. Yuko Kagoshima (1-0)

60kg/132 lbs: Alexandra Sanchez (2-0) vs. Tomoko Morii (1-1)