Asakura Mikura competes with Yu Saito for RIZIN featherweight gold belt
Asakura Mikura VS Yu Saito
Kawabu Daya VS Yuma Yamahata
Ehata Hidefan VS Yukai Sano
Martial Arts Network News The 25th RIZIN Thor competition has been confirmed and will be held in Osaka, Japan on November 21. The official list of matches has been announced. The finale of the day was the RIZIN featherweight title battle. Asakura Miyashi competed with Yu Saito for RIZIN's first featherweight championship belt.
Asakura Mikura (13-1, 7 K, 1 S, 1 N) is 28 years old this year and is 177cm tall. He started his professional MMA mixed martial arts career in 2012, and lost to Kil Woo Lee for points in the 2017 Luther ROAD FC match, and suffered his first career loss. However, he has maintained an 8-game winning streak since 2018 and just KO Daniel Salas in the second leg of the game in February this year.
Yu Saito (18-4-2, 5 K, 2 S) is 33 years old and tall 173cm. He started his professional MMA career in 2011 and won the Shooto Championship Gold Belt in 2016. Since losing points in May 2019, he has won two consecutive victories in the last September, KO Hiroyuki Takaya in the first leg of September last year, and just played in the first leg of RIZIN Thor event in August this year.
In addition, there were former K-1 WGP champion Kawabe Daya (21-12-1, 6 KO) against DEEP champion Yuma Yamahata that day. There is also 2 meters tall Japanese Taekwondo champion Hidefan Ehata against Yukai Sano.
match table:
RIZIN featherweight championship championship:
Mikuru Asakura vs. Yutaka Saito
bantamweight competition:
Hiromasa Ougikubo vs. Kenta Takizaw
flyweight match:
Tatsuki Saomoto vs. Daichi Kitakata
featherweight competition:
Yojiro Uchimura vs. Kyohei Hagiwara
middleweight match:
Ryuichiro Sumimura vs. Gota Yamashita
kick boxing-83kg match:
Hidenori Ebara vs. Isami Sano
kick boxing-60.5kg match:
Taiga Kawabe vs. Yuma Yamahata
kick boxing-63kg match:
Yuma Yamaguchi vs. Shohei Asahara
kick boxing-53kg match:
Masato Hito vs. Sato Syuto Sato