Strange things take place in the world of Japanese MMA.
This past week, at Deep Jewels 16, a 12-year old girl made her amateur MMA debut and fought a 24-year-old.
Momo Shimizu, who turned 12 back in February, took less than one round to submit her opponent Momoko Yamazaki with a rear-naked choke.
Obviously, this fight faced its fair share of criticism due to the girl’s young age, but her manager, Shu Hirata, defended Deep Jewels for allowing her to fight.
“Momo has been training MMA six times a week at least three hours a day ever since when she was in the kindergarten. Momo already had 100 amateur fights in BJJ, kickboxing and karate combined which is far more experience than her upcoming opponent Momoko Yamazaki who actually works at Hostess Bar and barely trains. This is not the first time Jewels put teenagers against an adult. They have done 12 yr old vs adult and 13 yr old adult in the past and in both fights a younger fighter won via submission.”
Below, you can see highlights from this highly unlikely fight at Deep Jewels 16.
12-year-old Momo chokes her 24-year-old opponent unconscious at the end of the first round at DEEP Jewels 16 #MMA #WMMA pic.twitter.com/m4foYElY2P
— Bestrafer7 (@Bestrafer7) May 22, 2017
Better angle of Momo's finish pic.twitter.com/lRhT74aF56
— MEGATON (@BasedDongeezus) May 22, 2017
