Rizin FF and two-division Deep Jewels champ Seika Izawa subsequent competes on September twenty ninth at Rizin Preventing Federation 48 in Saitama, Japan. Izawa is about to face 2017 Rizin Grand Prix Champion Kanna Asakura in a non-title bout, which can function the 26-year-old Asakura’s retirement combat.
Officers introduced the matchup throughout “Tremendous Rizin 3” earlier in the present day. The undefeated Izawa confronted one other retiring opponent, Miyuu Yamamoto, on New 12 months’s Eve earlier than most lately successful the Deep Jewels atomweight title. Asakura final fought in April 2023 when she defeated Mei Yamaguchi.
Izawa (13-0-0) has submitted 4 straight opponents, with none of these bouts reaching the six-minute mark. Rizin FF victories over Claire Lopez and the aforementioned Yamamoto have been sandwiched in between dominant Deep Jewels wins over Suwanan “Amp The Rocket” Boonsorn and Si Yoon Park; the latter of which earned Izawa her third simultaneous championship belt. The gifted grappler now holds atomweight and strawweight titles for Deep Jewels along with her Rizin FF Girls’s Tremendous Atomweight Championship, which is not going to be on the road within the September bout.
Asakura (20-7-0) received the Rizin FF Girls’s Tremendous Atomweight Grand Prix in 2017 on the younger age of 20 and later went on to twice problem for the promotion’s girls’s tremendous atomweight title. She was bested on each events by Ayaka Hamasaki, and encountered ups and downs in 4 fights for the reason that Hamasaki rematch. In her most up-to-date combat, Asakura edged out Yamaguchi by way of an in depth determination, however she has centered extra on cornering teammates since then and quietly made plans to retire. That retirement will take impact after her last combat for Rizin towards Izawa.
Rizin Preventing Federation 48 is about for September twenty ninth at Saitama Tremendous Area in Saitama, Japan.
