Rizin Fighting Federation has had to invoke an infrequently
used rule ahead of Rizin
42.
There was little drama on the scale as most of the fighters ahead
of the show made weight, including main eventers Kai Asakura
and Yuki
Motoya for their bantamweight clash. However, Takuya
Yamamoto failed to make weight for his featherweight match
against Takeji
Yokoyama. Yamamoto came in at 147.5 pounds, and as a result, he
has received a red card penalty under the “no contest rule,” which
means he is penalized 50% of his points should his match go to
decision, he will be ineligible to win the fight, and it will be
declared a no contest if he prevails.
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As for the main event, former champ Asakura hit the scales at 134.2
pounds. The 19-4 fighter is looking to bounce back from a defeat to
Hiromasa
Ougikubo, which snapped a three-fight win streak. Meanwhile,
Motoya (33-9, 1 NC) has won his last five fights, and checked in at
134.4 pounds.
Rizin 42 will air live on Fite.TV starting at 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT
on Saturday morning.
Rizin 42 Weigh-in Results:
Kai
Asakura (134.2) vs. Yuki Motoya
(134.4)
Naoki
Inoue (134.2) vs. Juan
Archuleta (132.6)
Roberto
Satoshi de Souza (155.9) vs. Spike
Carlyle (156.5)
Kota
Miura (144.8) vs. Ren
Sugiyama (145.3)
John
Dodson (125.4) vs. Tatsuki
Saomoto (125.6)
Takahiro
Ashida (145.1) vs. Kazumasa
Majima (145.3)
Yuta
Sasaki (145.1) vs. Boyd Allen
(145.1)
Atsushi
Kishimoto (156.3) vs. Viktor
Kolesnik (155.6)
Yuki
Ito (125.2) vs. Erson
Yamamoto (125.3)
Takuya
Yamamoto (147.5)* vs. Takeji
Yokoyama (145)
Ramazan
Temirov (126.3) vs. Yuta
Hamamoto (126.6)
* Yamamoto missed weight and has received a red card. If
Yamamoto wins, it will be ruled a no contest.