今日の会見で追加のワンマッチも4試合発表させていただきました！
どのカードも、男祭りに相応しいド派手な闘いが繰り広げられると思いますよ！
何れにしても今週末のRISEさんの大会とRIZIN香川大会の試合の結果も踏まえて、未来の相手と、更なる追加の対戦カードをマッチアップします！…
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pic.twitter.com/Non1oW40Qs— 榊󠄀原信行 Nobuyuki Sakakibara (@nobu_sakakibara)
March 26, 2025
Several new bouts have been announced for
Rizin Fighting Federation’s upcoming event on May 4.
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At flyweight, current BKFC champ and former
UFC title challenger John Dodson
will lock horns with Takaki
Soya, while outspoken Bellator
MMA veteran Danny
Sabatello will face Shinobu Ota
at bantamweight.
Rizin “Otoko Matsuri” takes place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo and
features a featherweight title tilt pitting Kleber
Koike Erbst against Rajababil Shaidullaev. The event will also
include a heavyweight grand prix.
A handful of other bouts have been confirmed for the card: Hiroya
Kondo vs. Tatsuki
Shinotsuka at flyweight; Erson
Yamamoto vs. Daichi
Tomizawa at flyweight and Joe
Hiramoto vs. Toki Tamaru
at flyweight.
Dodson will be competing in MMA for the first time since December
2023, when he suffered a unanimous decision loss to Hiromasa
Ougikubo at Rizin 45. More recently “The Magician” battled
Dagoberto Aguero to a draw in a title bout at BKFC 59 before
outpointing Soya in a bare knuckle bout at Super Rizin 3 last
July.
Soya has lost his last two MMA bouts, including a first-round
knockout loss to Ramazonbek
Temirov at Rizin 44 in September 2023.
Sabatello has been victorious in just one of his last five fights.
“The Italian Gangster” last appeared under the PFL banner, where he
battled Lazaro Dayton to a majority draw last August.
Ota, meanwhile, had a three-bout winning streak snapped in his last
outing, when he suffered a third-round submission loss to Yuki Motoya
at Rizin 48.