RIZIN’s Trailer For Its August Cards is Pretty, Pretty Awesome

Following in the footsteps of other major, MMA promotions like the UFC, ONE Championship and KSW, RIZIN has announced it’s returning to action next month.

Not only that, the Japanese promotion has shared out a very cool promo for the events, which are going down on August 9th and 10th.

RIZIN 22 & 23 trailer

On account of the COVID-19 pandemic, RIZIN has not held a card since this past February. But, recently the promotion announced RIZIN 22 and 23 will go down on back-to-back nights in Yokohama, Japan.

You can check out the trailer below (and if you don’t speak Japanese, using the closed captions feature is advised).

Line-ups for the events

The fight that will likely catch the eye of most hardcore fans, is the scrap between Hiromasa Ougikubo (20-4-2) and Kai Asakura (14-2). The two are competing for the bantamweight belt, which was vacated by Manel Kape, on account of his move to the UFC.

Here are the fights that have been announced so far for the August events (line-ups via Cageside Press).

RIZIN 22
Naoki Inoue vs Shooto Watanabe
Tetsuya Seki vs Yojiro Uchimura
Kanna Asakura vs Mizuki Furuse
Yusuke Yachi vs Roberto Satoshi Souza

RIZIN 23
Hiromasa Ougikubo vs Kai Asakura
Seiichirio Ito vs Makoto Takahashi
Yuki Motoya vs Mamoru Uoi
Yutaka Saito vs Kazumasa Majima