Group photo of RIZIN press conference
Rena Kubota VS Park Yu
Asaka Sea vs Kenta Takizawa
Hirokasa Ogikubo VS Naoaki Inoue
Roberto de Sousa vs Yusuke Yachi
Hiroshi Saito vs Mirai Asakura
Hamasaki Juka vs Izawa Hoshihana
Hikaru Saito vs Yuta Kubo
The UPCOMING RIZIN Thor 33 TOURNAMENT IN SAITATA, Japan, on December 31, will feature three new matches, including a high-profile women's duel, kickboxing queen Reina Kubota against South Korea's Park Shiyou.
Reina Kubota (12-3, 7 K, 2 S) is 30 years old and 160cm tall. She has a (35-5-1, 11 KO) kickboxing record and is the champion of Rise and SpotBoxing. He began his professional MMA career at the RIZIN Thor tournament in 2015 and has won four consecutive games since being defeated by Lindsey VanZandt in the first set in June 2019, including a successful revenge on TKO in the third set of the second match against Lindhi Vanzant in December 2019, a victory over Emi Tomimatsu in September 2020, and Miyuu Yamamoto in the second set in November this year Yamamoto）。
Park Seok-woo (5-4, 1 K, 0 S) is 30 years old and 157cm tall. He began his professional MMA career in 2017, and after the first two consecutive defeats, he played a wave of 5 consecutive wins, unfortunately suffered another 2 consecutive defeats recently, and was demoted by the first set in June this year, just lost to unbeaten rising star Seika Izawa in October.
The grand finale was the RIZIN Lightweight Championship Tournament, where current champion Roberto de Sousa (12-1, 4 K, 8 S) played a second game against challenger Yusuke Yachi (23-11, 6 K, 2 S). There were also four finalists of the RIZIN Grand Prix: former RIZIN champion Asaka Kai (18-3, 11 K, 3 S) against rookie Kenta Takizawa (13-7, 9 K, 0 S), former UFC player 24-year-old Naoki Inoue (17-2, 1 K, 10 S) vs. Shudou champion Hiroshima Osobo (23-5-2, 1 K, 6 S). There were also two former RIZIN featherweight champions in a double match, with Hiroshi Saito (20-5-2, 5 K, 2 S) against Mirai Asakura (15-3, 8 K, 1 S, 1 N). Current RIZIN women's super atomicweight champion Juka Hamazaki (23-3, 3 K, 10 S) played an untitled super battle against 24-year-old unbeaten rising star Hoshika Izawa (4-0, K, 1 S). Former K-1 WGP subweight (67.5kg) champion Yuta Kubo (49-10-1, 29 KO) played a special MMA rule match against 94 kg Mitsuru Saito (4-9-1, 2 K, 2 S).
Match Match Chart:
RIZIN Lightweight Championship Tournament:
Roberto de Souza (#c) vs. Yusuke Yachi
RIZIN Grand Prix:
Kai Asakura vs. Kenta Takizawa
Hiromasa Ougikubo vs. Naoki Inoue
RIZIN Grand Prix - Reserve:
Yuki Motoya vs. Kintaro (Yuto Hokamura)
Featherweight Competition:
Yutaka Saito vs. Mirai Asakura (Mikuru Asakura)
Women's Superatomic Competition:
Ayaka Hamasaki vs. Seika Izawa
Kyohei Hagiwara vs. Hiroaki Suzuki
Lightweight Competition:
Koji Takeda vs. Noah Bey
Heavyweight Competition:
Shoma Shibisai vs. Hideki Sekine
90kg Special Rules:
Yuta Kubo vs. Hikaru Saito (Atsushi Saito)
Women's 60kg Competition:
Rena Kubota vs. Si Woo Park
Hatchweight Competition:
Kazuma Sone vs. Shinobu Ota
Kota Miura vs. YUSHI