It’s RIZIN 43 battle week.
Happening this weekend (Sat., June 24, 2023), RIZIN 43 performs host to a plethora of thrilling match ups on paper to proceed the scorching summer time schedule. The promotion will staff again up with Bellator for a collaborative effort subsequent month (Sat., July 30, 2023) to supply Tremendous RIZIN 2. On episode 28 of BROADENED HORIZIN, two fighters from every occasion joined the present together with a returning Final Preventing Championship (UFC) prospect.
It’s been three years since Mizuki Inoue final stepped foot within the Octagon, struggling a troublesome unanimous determination loss to the subsequent Strawweight title challenger, Amanda Lemos. An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear led to Inoue’s absence, however she’s totally healed and formally set to return at UFC Vegas 79 on Sept. 23, 2023. Nonetheless simply 28, the Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan native has already been competing professionally for one dozen years and needs to get again to her energetic methods.
Australia’s Trent Girdham returns to the RIZIN ring this weekend, going through Joji Goto in a combined martial arts (MMA) conflict. Girdham’s final look within the promotion was a fast and unfortunate one, shedding a kickboxing match to Genji Umeno in solely 21 seconds when a leg kick dislocated his kneecap. The 25-year-old striker has already rebounded with an MMA win in Bali and seeks his first in RIZIN in opposition to Goto.
Returning residence for a battle at Tremendous RIZIN 2 would be the No. 3-ranked Bellator ladies’s Flyweight contender, Kana Watanabe, who faces Veta Arteaga. Watanabe seems to be to scrub away the unhealthy style of a controversial April 2023 cut up determination loss to Ilima-Lei Macfarlane.
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