Two of Rizin’s hottest fighters, Mikuru Asakura and Ren Hiramoto, will face off at Tremendous Rizin 3. Picture courtesy of Rizin FF.
One of many largest MMA matches in Japan was introduced at a press convention Saturday for Rizin’s summer time present Tremendous Rizin 3. The uber-popular Mikuru Asakura (17-4) will tackle former Okay-1 kickboxer and social media dangerous boy Ren Hiramoto (3-3). The match is being billed because the “2 Villains: The Match in The Darkish.” The 2 have jawed and traded insults to one another for a few years and can lastly get to settle the rating on July 28 on the Saitama Tremendous Area.
Asakura has been on a shedding skid lately. He misplaced to former champion Vugar Karamov final yr for the inaugural featherweight championship. He then misplaced an open-finger glove kickboxing match to Ya-Man on the Rise present Struggle Membership. His final win was in opposition to former featherweight champion Juntaro Ushiku. He additionally runs the viral promotion Breaking Down. Breaking Down options one-round matches often involving gangsters, criminals, and Japanese people who find themselves ostracized. The fights obtain tens of millions of views on TikTok and YouTube.
Ren Hiramoto is a former Okay-1 kickboxing event runner-up. He transitioned to MMA in 2020 and has educated at Roufusport to alongside Sergio Pettis and different world-class fighters. Regardless of his 3-3 file, he stays considered one of Rizin’s hottest fighters together with his fights getting tens of millions of views on YouTube. His final battle noticed him defeat one other kickboxer turned MMA fighter Ya-Man by unanimous resolution on New Yr’s Eve.
On the press convention, each mentioned they’d retire in the event that they misplaced to the opposite.
Hiramoto wrote on Twitter/X concerning the match: “I’m saving my first knockout victory for this match… The loser will retire… This will likely be Asakura’s retirement match.”
Rizin additionally introduced they’re utilizing the stadium portion of the SSA which holds much more seats. The stadium can maintain roughly 30,000 individuals.
No different fights right now have been introduced.
