＼ITS FIGHT DAY🔥/／
🌇 #RIZIN42 🌇▶︎5.6(Sat) 12:00am CT~ Event Start◀︎
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Former Rizin Fighting Federation bantamweight champion Kai Asakura will return to active mixed martial arts duty for the first time in more than a year when he confronts Yuki Motoya in the Rizin 42 headliner on Saturday at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Naoki Inoue carries an 18-3 record into his bantamweight co-main event opposite onetime Bellator MMA titleholder Juan Archuleta.
Rizin 42—which streams to FITE.tv pay-per-view ($29.99) at 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT—also features a lightweight tilt pairing Roberto Satoshi de Souza with Spike Carlyle, a flyweight affair pitting John Dodson against Tatsuki Saomoto and a featherweight scrap matching Takahiro Ashida with Kazumasa Majima.
A closer look at the Rizin 42 particulars:
THE LINEUP
135: Kai Asakura vs. Yuki Motoya135: Naoki Inoue vs. Juan Archuleta
155: Roberto Satoshi de Souza vs. Spike Carlyle
155: Buakaw Banchamek vs. Rukiya Anpo (KB)
145: Kota Miura vs. Ren Sugiyama (SR)
125: John Dodson vs. Tatsuki Saomoto
145: Takahiro Ashida vs. Kazumasa Majima
145: Yuta Sasaki vs. Boyd Allen
155: Atsushi Kishimoto vs. Viktor Kolesnik
125: Yuki Ito vs. Erson Yamamoto
145: Takuya Yamamoto vs. Takeji Yokoyama
125: Yuta Hamamoto vs. Ramazan Temirov
152: Yasuhiro Kido vs. Sota Kimura (KB)