After struggles in 2025, Deep and Deep Jewels Microweight Champion Saori “Little Large” Oshima seeks a contemporary begin this yr when she competes on March seventh at Rizin Combating Federation 52 in Tokyo, Japan. Oshima faces Keito “Kate Lotus” Oyama in a 49kg tremendous atomweight bout on the cardboard.
Officers introduced the matchup throughout intermission at Rizin’s year-end occasion on Wednesday. Oshima fell to champ Seika Izawa of their Rizin title bout on November third. Oyama hopes to propel herself into title rivalry by defeating Oshima and increasing her present four-fight profitable streak.
Oshima (15-7-0) has loved highs and endured tough lows throughout her previous six fights courting again to the start of 2024. She improved to 4-0 below the Rizin banner by submitting Claire Lopez after which unified the Deep and Deep Jewels microweight titles with a choice victory in opposition to Aya Murakami. Oshima then made a really fast turnaround for her Invicta FC debut in June 2024 and sustained a choice loss. She took time away to get better from an harm and returned in Might, the place she was upset by Ye Ji Lee in an atomweight conflict at Deep: “125 Impression.” Oshima’s lone win in 2025, a choice victory over Moeri Suda of their September rematch, was a giant one, however she ended the yr by arising quick in her Rizin title bid in opposition to Izawa.
Oyama (9-7-0) has been probably the most in style fighters in Japan courting again to her debut for Deep Jewels late in 2020. After first competing as a flyweight, Oyama steadily moved down till she reached her present house within the tremendous atomweight division, and regular enhancements in the course of the previous two years have led to a substantial quantity of success. Oyama’s lone defeat in her previous six fights got here at “Tremendous Rizin 3” in July 2024 when she was stopped by Rena Kubota, who went on to problem for Rizin title gold earlier this week. Since then, Oyama has gained 4 straight fights together with two for Rizin. In November, she defeated Bo Mi Lee at Rizin’s “Landmark Vol. 12” occasion, and a victory over Oshima may probably be sufficient to earn Oyama a Rizin title struggle.
Rizin Combating Federation 52 takes place on March seventh at Ariake Enviornment in Tokyo, Japan.
