Two-time Deep Jewels interim strawweight title challenger Machi Fukuda seeks her second Rizin FF victory when she returns to the promotion on March thirtieth at Rizin Combating Federation 50 in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Fukuda is ready to face 2024 Shooto Infinity League winner Website positioning Younger Park.
Rizin officers introduced the 115-pound bout this previous weekend. Fukuda earned back-to-back submission wins for Deep Jewels after dropping a slender Cut up Determination in a Could interim title struggle. Park went an ideal 3-0 for Shooto in 2024 to win its Infinity League ladies’s atomweight match.
Fukuda (6-2-0) earned her first shot with Rizin in October 2023 after starting her professional profession with three consecutive victories for Deep Jewels. She gained a hard-fought Cut up Determination towards Shooto Ladies’s Tremendous Atomweight Champion Ayaka Watanabe earlier than returning to Deep Jewels to face Arisa Matsuda in an interim strawweight title struggle. Fukuda suffered her first defeat through a razor-thin Cut up Determination, and dropped one other shut determination to Si Woo Park in Could after Matsuda had vacated her title, however she rebounded with a pair of second-round submission finishes towards Morgane Manfredi and Suwanan “Amp The Rocket” Boonsorn, respectively.
Park (5-4-0, 1 NC) utterly turned her profession round this previous 12 months after a disappointing 2-4 begin that included three defeats for Shooto. She entered the Japanese promotion’s Infinity League match and earned determination wins over teen prospects Ayane Hirata and Noeru “Noel” Narita earlier than submitting Mikiko Hiyama in simply 32 seconds on December fifteenth at Shooto: “Colours 4.”
Following the match win, Park stepped in on mere days’ discover instead of an injured Jeong Eun Park at Highway FC 71 in what was initially an atomweight championship bout. The load was moved as much as 113 kilos to accommodate Park’s late participation, and he or she made weight, however opponent Yu Jin Shin got here in method over the restrict at 125 kilos. Whereas Shin stopped Park late within the second spherical, the bout was dominated a No Contest as a result of her failure to even come shut to creating weight.
Subsequent month’s struggle between 21-year-olds Fukuda and Park, who have been born simply three days aside in 2003, can be an important one for each as they give the impression of being to construct upon success in 2024 on the massive stage that Rizin offers.
Rizin Combating Federation 50 takes place on March thirtieth at Anabuki Enviornment Kagawa in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan.
