RIZIN lightweight Roberto Satoshi thinks it’s time to move on and crown a new 155-pound king.
The company’s lightweight belt was captured by Tofiq Musayev in December 2019, when he defeated Bellator star Patricky Freire in the RIZIN grand prix final. A global pandemic was followed by a conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, forcing Musayev to join the Azerbaijani army and remain sidelined from the MMA world.
Satoshi is now scheduled to face longtime MMA veteran Kazuki Tokudome in the co-main event of Sunday’s RIZIN 27 in Nagoya, Japan, and told MMA Fighting he was in talks with the promotion about a fight with Musayev in December.