A bantamweight showdown pitting former featherweight champion
Juntaro
Ushiku
against Olympic silver medalist Shinobu Ota
is one of seven new contests addded to the Rizin
Fighting Federation 46
card.

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The Japanese promotion recently announced the bouts. The other six
matchups are as follows: Taichi
Nakajima
vs. Soo Chul
Kim
at bantamweight; Makoto
Takahashi
vs. Jung Hyun
Lee
at flyweight; Kazuma
Kuramoto
vs. Ji Yong
Yang
at bantamweight; Yoshiki
Nakahara
vs. Viktor
Kolesnik
at featherweight; Sora Yamamto vs. Ilhom
Nazimov
at featherweight and Ryo Takagi
vs. Taisei
Nishitani
at featherweight.

Rizin 46 takes place on April 29 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo and is
headlined by a featherweight championship tilt between Chihiro
Suzuki
and Masanori
Kanehara
.

Ushiku snapped a two-fight skid in his last outing, when he took a
unanimous decision over Kyohei
Hagiwara
at Rizin 44 this past September. The 29-year-old
American Top Team representative owns a 21-8 career mark that
includes stints in Deep and Pancrase.

Ota, who medaled in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2016 Olympic
Games, has compiled a 5-3 mark while competing exclusively under
the Rizin banner. He is coming off a first-round knockout of
Ryusei
Ashizawa
at Rizin 45 on New Year’s Eve.

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