A bantamweight showdown pitting former featherweight champion
Juntaro
Ushiku in opposition to Olympic silver medalist Shinobu Ota
is one in all seven new contests addded to the Rizin
Preventing Federation 46 card.
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The Japanese promotion lately introduced the bouts. The opposite six
matchups are as follows: Taichi
Nakajima vs. Soo Chul
Kim at bantamweight; Makoto
Takahashi vs. Jung Hyun
Lee at flyweight; Kazuma
Kuramoto vs. Ji Yong
Yang at bantamweight; Yoshiki
Nakahara vs. Viktor
Kolesnik at featherweight; Sora Yamamto vs. Ilhom
Nazimov at featherweight and Ryo Takagi
vs. Taisei
Nishitani at featherweight.
Rizin 46 takes place on April 29 at Ariake Area in Tokyo and is
headlined by a featherweight championship tilt between Chihiro
Suzuki and Masanori
Kanehara.
Ushiku snapped a two-fight skid in his final outing, when he took a
unanimous resolution over Kyohei
Hagiwara at Rizin 44 this previous September. The 29-year-old
American Prime Workforce consultant owns a 21-8 profession mark that
consists of stints in Deep and Pancrase.
Ota, who medaled in Greco-Roman wrestling on the 2016 Olympic
Video games, has compiled a 5-3 mark whereas competing solely underneath
the Rizin banner. He’s coming off a first-round knockout of
Ryusei
Ashizawa at Rizin 45 on New 12 months’s Eve.
