✈️#RIZIN43✈️
📝#FIGHTORDER👑 RIZIN Featherweight Championship Match 👑@KoikeKleber 🆚 Chihiro Suzuki
📡 PPV available on @FiteTV [ https://t.co/538zJfYlrK ]
📅6/24 (Sat) 12:00am CT start~
*Opening fight starts at 10:30pm CT Friday evening
🏟 Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena pic.twitter.com/t3wcdRazrI— RIZIN FF English (@rizin_English) June 19, 2023
Kleber Koike Erbst will defend the Rizin Fighting Federation featherweight championship against Chihiro Suzuki in the Rizin 43 main event on Saturday at the Makomanai Ice Arena in Sapporo, Japan. Meanwhile, former Pacific Xtreme Combat titleholder Yusuke Yachi takes on Hawaiian journeyman Zach Zane in the lightweight co-headliner.
Rizin 43—which streams to FITE.tv pay-per-view ($19.99) at 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT—also features a heavyweight clash pairing Hideko Sekine with Mikio Ueda, a featherweight tilt pitting Hiroaki Suzuki against Taisei Nishitani and a kickboxing match slotting Genji Umeno opposite Hiroki Suzuki at 138 pounds.
A closer look at the Rizin 43 particulars:
THE LINEUP
145: Kleber Koike Erbst vs. Chihiro Suzuki155: Yusuke Yachi vs. Zach Zane
265: Hideki Sekine vs. Mikio Ueda
145: Hiroaki Suzuki vs. Taisei Nishitani
138: Genji Umeno vs. Hiroki Suzuki (KB)
161: Minoru Kimura vs. Daryl Lokoku (KB)
145: Yuta Kubo vs. Takeaki Kinoshita
115: Saori Oshima vs. Haruka Hasegawa
145: Suguru Nii vs. Tateo Iida
145: Tetsuya Seki vs. Kisugi Endo
135: Trent Girdham vs. Joji Goto
135: Marina Kumagai vs. Aoi Kuriyama
127: Kensei Yamakawa vs. Ryoga Hirano (KB)
155: Toshiki Watanabe vs. Kento Azumi
121: Daiki Maruyama vs. Suguru Hayasaka
136: Aito Tanimura vs. Ryuya Koide (KB)
128: Shoki Hoshikubo vs. Kazuyuki Furukawa (KB)