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🇯🇵 Mikuru Asakura vs Vugar Keramov 🇦🇿
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July 28, 2023
Rizin Fighting Federation is putting on its second Super Rizin
event following its co-promotion with Bellator
MMA.
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Three title fights for Super
Rizin 2 are now official following the weigh-ins. Headlining
the event is a fight for the vacant featherweight championship
between Mikuru
Asakura and Vugar
Karamov. The stacked event also features a vacant bantamweight
title fight between Juan
Archuleta and Hiromasa
Ougikubo and a women’s atomweight title defense as champion
Seika
Izawa takes on challenger Claire
Lopez.
Asakura (17-3) is currently on a roll since being submitted by
Kleber
Koike Erbst in 2021. Three straight unanimous decision
victories have followed. The fan-favorite weighed 145.5 pounds for
the vacant title fight. Meanwhile, Karamov (18-4) is also on a
three-fight win streak and has proven himself a submission threat. “Vugi” stepped on the scale at 145 pounds.
Super Rizin will air live on Fite TV on Sunday starting at 3 a.m.
ET/12 a.m. PT.
Super Rizin 2 Weigh-in Results:
Mikuru
Asakura (145.5) vs. Vugar
Karamov (145)
Juan
Archuleta (133.1) vs. Hiromasa
Ougikubo (134.1)
Seika
Izawa (107.1) vs. Claire
Lopez (107.8)
Patricio
Freire (151) vs. Chihiro
Suzuki (154.3)
Tofiq
Musayev (155.5) vs. Akira Okada
(156)
Kenta
Takizawa (134.2) vs. Shinobu Ota
(134.4)
Daichi
Abe (184.7) vs. Igor Tanabe
(184.4)
Yuki
Ito (127.5) vs. Hiroya
Kondo (127.2)