Peep Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Kai Asakura 2 beefy fight video to survey Horiguchi accumulate his return from a 15-month layoff to danger Kai Asakura for the bantamweight championship at RIZIN 26 on Dec. 31 in Saitama, Japan.
The 2d assembly between Horiguchi and Asakura got here below outlandish conditions as Horiguchi used to be making a comeback to the ring after never having misplaced his RIZIN title in competition. Nonetheless, has closing fight forward of relinquishing the belt attributable to injury used to be a 67-2d knockout loss to Asakura in a non-title bout at RIZIN 18. Asakura went on to purchase a vacant bantamweight championship in Horiguchi’s absence.
After they met within the main match of RIZIN’s 2020 365 days-dwell hide, it used to be the smaller Horiguchi who got here out on prime after a irritating exiguous while. A high knee from Asakura used to be met with a great-making an are attempting counter blow, leading to a rapidly flurry from Horiguchi that stopped the fight at 2: 48.
With the take, Horiguchi improved his file to 29-3 and now reigns as RIZIN’s bantamweight king as soon as extra.
