K-1 World GP 2022 Japan (also known as 3rd Super Bantamweight Championship Tournament) will be a kickboxing event held by K-1, which will be held on February 27, 2022, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Fight Card
Main Card
Exhibition Japan Takeru Segawa vs. Japan Taito Gunji
Catchweight 61 kg Japan Hirotaka Urabe vs. Japan Kotaro Shimano
Super featherweight 60 kg Japan Ryusei Ashizawa vs. Japan Narufumi Nishimoto
Minimumweight 48 kg Japan Miho Takanashi vs. Japan Yuka
Women's Flyweight 52 kg Japan Kana Morimoto vs. Japan Ran
Super Lightweight 65 kg Japan Taio Asahisa vs. Japan Yuki Yoza
Lightweight 62.5 kg Japan Shuji Kawarada vs. Japan Yuto Shinohara
Lightweight 62.5 kg Japan Satomi Yuzuki vs. Japan Ryuka
Featherweight 57.5 kg Japan Kaito Ozawa vs. Japan Shuhei Kumura
Catchweight 73 kg Brazil Danilo Zanolini vs. Japan Katsuya Jinbo
Super Welterweight 70 kg Nepal Abiral Ghimire vs. Japan Daiki Matsushita
Welterweight 67.5 kg Japan Kota Nakano vs. Japan Kazuki Yamagiwa
Super Lightweight 65 kg Japan Daizo Sasaki vs. Brazil Vitor Tofanelli
Super Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinals
Super Bantamweight 55 kg Japan Riamu Sera vs. Japan Ikko
Super Bantamweight 55 kg Japan Akihiro Kaneko vs. Japan Yuto Kuroda
Super Bantamweight 55 kg Japan Masashi Kumura vs. Japan Momotaro Kiyama
Super Bantamweight 55 kg Japan Junki Sasaki vs. Japan Sho Uchida
Preliminary Card
Catchweight 52 kg Japan Rui Okubo vs. Japan Shohei Nishibayashi
Featherweight 57.5 kg Japan Sota Amano vs. Japan Satoshi Tanaka
Super featherweight 60 kg Japan Haru Furumiya vs. Japan Taihei Shimomura
Background
A K-1 Women's Flyweight Championship bout between reigning champion Kana Morimoto and title challenger Kotomi was expected to take place at the event. Kotomi later withdrew, and was replace by Ran, who faced Morimoto in a non-title bout.
K-1 Lightweight Champion Taio Asahisa was scheduled to face Yuki Yoza in a non-title bout.
A Super Bantamweight World Grand Prix is expected to take place during the event. The tournament was organized to fill the vacant K-1 Super Bantamweight title.
Reigning Krush Super Lightweight champion Daizo Sasaki was scheduled to face Vitor Toffanelli.