RIZIN Preventing Federation and Bellator are again in enterprise collectively for a giant upcoming collaborative occasion.
The newest installment of BROADENED HORIZIN brings you one in every of 2023’s early stars between each promotions, the previous Bellator Bantamweight champion, Juan Archuleta. “The Spaniard” is formally set to battle for the vacant RIZIN Bantamweight title when he takes on former titleholder, Kai Asakura, at Super RIZIN 2 on July 30, 2023.
Archuleta’s conflict with Asakura will likely be his third consecutive battle contained in the RIZIN ring. At RIZIN 42 earlier this month (Might 6, 2023), Archuleta placed on an exhilarating scramble-heavy efficiency, defeating prime contender, Naoki Inoue, by way of a unanimous choice. The win acted as a stable follow-up to Archuleta’s Dec. 2022 debut the place he gained a hard-fought break up choice towards South Korea’s Soo Chul Kim.
With a possible overcome Asakura, Archuleta hopes it may possibly result in an eventual champion vs. champion bout as soon as every part is sorted out between Sergio Pettis, Patricio “Pitbull” Freire, and Patchy Combine in Bellator.
Alongside Archuleta for the present was one other returning visitor, Claire Lopez. The French preventing sensation is contemporary off a profitable debut at RIZIN Landmark 5 final month (April 29, 2023). Tasked with Japanese celebrity and prime Atomweight, Rena Kubota, Lopez pulled off a Submission of the Yr contender, defeating Kubota with a third-round kneebar.
Lopez finds herself in a snug spot with loads of alternatives between preventing in RIZIN and her unique preventing house of Combate International.
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