Getting back from a knee harm that stored her out of motion since April, Rena Kubota will subsequent compete on March twenty third at Rizin Preventing Federation 46 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. Kubota will face off in opposition to former Street FC Girls’s Atomweight Champion Yu Ri Shim in a 49kg tremendous atomweight matchup.
The bout was formally introduced on New Yr’s Eve throughout Rizin FF 45. Kubota is coming off of a third-round kneebar submission loss to Claire Lopez at Rizin FF: “Landmark Vol. 5” and appears to rebound in opposition to Shim, who returns to motion following a layoff courting again to September 2021.
Kubota (13-5-0) amassed a strong four-fight successful streak in Rizin between October 2019 and November 2021 that included three TKO victories, with the final of which coming in opposition to Miyuu Yamamoto at Rizin FF 32. Her momentum was halted when she dropped a Unanimous Choice to Si Woo Park at Rizin FF 33, however Kubota returned to motion this previous July and picked up a hard-fought choice win in opposition to Anastasiya Svetkivska. Her hopes to advance into tremendous atomweight title competition have been dashed by Lopez, nonetheless, who submitted Kubota with a nasty kneebar once they fought in April.
Shim (6-3-0) has been out of motion since she received the Street FC Girls’s Atomweight Championship with a razor-thin Cut up Choice victory in a rematch in opposition to Jeong Eun Park, who had defeated Shim within the pair’s first assembly in December 2019. Previous to that defeat, Shim had received three straight fights in 2018 together with back-to-back victories in Street FC in November and December. Shim has not fought since she received the title in opposition to Park, and the belt was stripped from Shim upon her signing with Rizin. Shim will now look to begin a brand new chapter in her profession when she makes her Rizin FF debut.
Rizin Preventing Federation 46 takes place on March twenty third at World Memorial Corridor in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan.
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