Rizin FF is all set to round off 2020 with a bang as the promotion gets set to host a packed card of fights, including arguably the organization’s biggest title fight of the year, on New Year’s Eve. Rizin FF 26 takes place Dec. 31 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, with 10,000 spectators allowed in the venue for a fight card packed with familiar names from the Japanese promotion. Headlining the card is a rematch for the Rizin FF bantamweight title, as former Rizin FF and Bellator bantamweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi returns to the ring to take on the last man to defeat him, reigning bantamweight champion Kai Asakura. The pair last met in a non-title back in August of 2019, when Asakura (16-2) stunned the champion early before finishing him via TKO in just 68 seconds at Rizin FF 18, and a planned rematch for the bantamweight title at Rizin FF 20 was nixed due to an injury to Horiguchi (28-3), who subsequently relinquished his Rizin FF and Bellator bantamweight titles
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