Eri Yoshida was traded later that week to Maui, rejoining her manager from last year, Garry Templeton, and started on August 9, pitching 5 innings of one-hit ball, and picked up her first professional win in the U.S. with Maui defeating Edmonton 4–1. In 2012, she returned to Japan to play for the of the Kansai Independent Baseball League. On May 3, 2012, Yoshida made her first start of the year for Hyogo. She hurled five innings, giving up just one run, walking 1 while striking out 2. She earned the win, making her the first woman to win a game in
Hidehiko Yoshida The fight was even closer than its first iteration, as Yoshida won the first round to the judges and kept himself mostly out of danger until the third round, but he lost again by decision. Yoshida recovered from the defeat submitting Tank Abbott at the next event with the judo technique known as kata-ha-jime. At the end of the same year, Yoshida faced fellow Japanese judoka Naoya Ogawa by an armbar in a highly anticipated MMA bout at PRIDE Shockwave 2005 with each fighter receiving a payment of US$2 million, which remains one of the most expensive fights in MMA