Kai Asakura and Kyoji Horiguchi are set to kick off the new year in style.
RIZIN has released its official card for it’s New Year’s Eve show, headlined by Asakura (16-2) defending his bantamweight title against Kyoji Horiguchi (28-3). This will be Horiguchi’s first fight since having to vacate his RIZIN and Bellator titles in late 2019.
Horiguchi actually lost to Asakura by first-round knockout when they fought at RIZIN 18, though it was a non-title bout. Asakura then won three of his next four, including a first-round KO of Hiromasa Ougikubo to claim the RIZIN bantamweight championship.