RIZIN 26 primer: Best pre-fight quotes, weigh-in results
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Esther Lin, MMA Fighting
The final major MMA show of the year is just hours away, and the fighters are locked in.
RIZIN 26 bantamweight championship headliners Kai Asakura and Kyoji Horiguchi successfully made weight Wednesday, with Asakura at 60.75 kg. and Horiguchi at 60.8 kg. This is Asakura’s first defense after winning a vacant title at RIZIN 23 in August, while Horiguchi seeks to reclaim the belt that he relinquished due to injury in 2019.
All the prominent RIZIN 26 names were on point including kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa, vacant atomweight title contenders Ayaka Hamasaki and Miyuu Yamamoto, 24-year veteran Ikuhisa Minowa a.k.a. “Minowaman,” and MMA legend Takanori Gomi.