At 1am ET on Sunday morning, April 21, Rizin will host their 18th event in Yokohama, Japan. Headlining the card will be former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion King Mo, taking on the 26 year old Rizin veteran, Jiri Prochazka. This event will also feature Tenshin Nasukawa taking on the 4-1 professional mixed martial artist, and 1-0 professional boxer, Fritz Aldin Biagtan. We also have UFC veterans Kyoji Horiguchi and Ben Nguyen at a catchweight. I’m so glad Rizin exists now, it’s kind of like the new PRIDE. Fight Card posted below:
205 lb Championship: Jiri Prochazka (23-3-1) vs. Muhammed Lawal (21-8) 1 NC
130 lbs (Kickboxing) : Tenshin Nasukawa (28-0) vs. Fritz Aldin Biagtan (?-?)
132 lbs: Kyoji Horiguchi (26-2) vs. Ben Nguyen (18-8)
156 lbs: Satoru Kitaoka (42-18-9) vs. Roberto de Souza (7-0)
205 lbs: Karl Albrektsson (8-2) vs. Christiano Frohlich (10-4)
Women’s 112 lbs: Rena Kubota (7-2) vs. Samantha Jean-Francois (3-5)
150 lbs: Mikuru Asakura (9-1) vs. Luiz Gustavo (9-1)
Women’s 125 lbs: Kana Watanabe (6-0-1) vs. Justyna Zofia Haba (1-0)
155 lbs: Koji Takeda (8-0) vs. Damien Brown (18-12)
128 lbs: Seiichiro Ito (12-2-2) vs. Manel Kape (12-4)
Women’s 125 lbs: Kanaka Murata (8-1) vs. Saray Orozco (4-2)
135 lbs (Kickboxing) : Taiga Kawabe vs. Thalisson Gomes Ferreira
