After a number of months of uncertainty, Rizin FF Ladies’s Tremendous Atomweight Champion Seika Izawa eventually has her subsequent title challenger. Izawa will face undefeated Highway FC fighter Yu Jin Shin, who’s coming off of an enormous weight miss, at Rizin FF: “Tremendous Rizin 4” on July twenty seventh in Saitama, Japan.
Rizin officers introduced the championship combat immediately following a number of failed makes an attempt to guide a combat between Izawa and Rena Kubota. Additionally confirmed for “Tremendous Rizin 4” is a second girls’s tremendous atomweight matchup between Moeri “Black Diamond” Suda and Noeru “Noel” Narita.
Izawa (15-0-0) has struggled to seek out opponents however has however managed to safe six victories previously two years. She presently holds the Rizin FF tremendous atomweight title in addition to atomweight and strawweight championships for Deep Jewels. Two of her three most up-to-date Rizin FF bouts have been in opposition to retiring fighters, nevertheless, and her New 12 months’s Eve combat in opposition to Lucia Apdelgarim additionally served as a filler matchup whereas Rizin tried to guide Izawa in opposition to Kubota. With that deliberate combat seemingly off the desk now, Rizin as an alternative turned its consideration to a brand new challenger for Izawa, although the choice is a considerably controversial one.
Shin (3-0-0, 1 NC), who additionally has two wins in Highway FC’s modified-rules ARC collection, prevailed in a 121-pound catchweight bout in opposition to Eun Jung Lee at Highway FC 68 in April 2024. She didn’t compete once more till December, when she had been scheduled to face Jeong Eun Park for the vacant Highway FC Ladies’s Atomweight Championship. Nonetheless, when Park was pressured to withdraw, Shin was matched up in opposition to Search engine marketing Younger Park, who had simply gained Shooto’s Infinity League Match two weeks prior. Regardless of the brand new bout being moved as much as 113 kilos, Shin weighed in at 125, which is a full 20 kilos above the unique restrict for the deliberate atomweight title combat. Shin stopped Park within the second spherical, however the combat was declared a No Contest attributable to her weight miss, and he or she might want to get all the way in which all the way down to 108 kilos in opposition to Izawa.
Suda (13-6-0) returns to Rizin with a ton of momentum on her aspect after scoring an enormous victory over former Rizin and Invicta FC champion Ayaka Hamasaki at Deep Jewels 48 in March. The 20-year-old has gained 5 of her previous six fights, with the lone defeat coming through a contentious choice in opposition to Si Yoon Park at Black Fight 10. Suda’s victory over Hamasaki instantly vaulted her from prospect to prime contender, and he or she might earn herself a Rizin title shot with a win subsequent month.
Narita (2-1-0) gained her professional MMA debut in August at age 16 and he or she has established herself as one of many prime younger grapplers in Japan. Her second professional bout led to a call loss to the aforementioned Search engine marketing Younger Park within the second spherical of the Infinity League Match, however Narita closed out 2024 with a powerful win by choking out fellow teen prospect Ayane Hirata at Shooto: “Colours 4.” Now 17, Narita will take a giant step up in competitors to problem Suda in her Rizin debut.
Rizin Combating Federation: “Tremendous Rizin 4” is ready to happen on July twenty seventh at Saitama Tremendous Enviornment in Saitama, Japan.
