Super Rizin 2: Rizin X Bellator will be a Combat sport event held by Rizin Fighting Federation and Bellator MMA on July 30, 2023 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Fight Card
Part 2: Super Rizin 2 (FiteTV PPV)
Featherweight 66 kg Japan Mikuru Asakura vs. Azerbaijan Vugar Keramov Vacant Rizin Featherweight Championship
Bantamweight 61 kg United States Juan Archuleta vs. Japan Hiromasa Ougikubo Vacant Rizin Bantamweight Championship
Women's Super Atomweight 49 kg Japan Seika Izawa (c) vs. France Claire Lopez Rizin Women's Super Atomweight Championship
Intermission
Lightweight 71 kg Azerbaijan Tofiq Musayev vs. Japan Akira Okada
Bantamweight 61 kg Japan Kenta Takizawa vs. Japan Shinobu Ota
Middleweight 84 kg Japan Daichi Abe vs. Brazil Igor Tanabe
Catchweight 58 kg Japan Yuki Ito vs. Japan Hiroya Kondo
Part 1: Bellator MMA x Rizin 2 (Showtime)
Lightweight Brazil Patricky Pitbull vs. United States A. J. McKee Bellator Lightweight World Grand Prix Quarter-Final
Flyweight Japan Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Japan Makoto Takahashi Inaugural Bellator Flyweight World Championship
Women's Flyweight Japan Kana Watanabe vs. United States Veta Arteaga
Bantamweight Russia Magomed Magomedov vs. United States Danny Sabatello
Welterweight Russia Andrey Koreshkov vs. United States Lorenz Larkin
Background
As with the previous Super Rizin & Rizin 38 and Rizin 40 & Rizin vs Bellator events in 2022, Super Rizin 2 will be spilt between two cards. Matches on the Bellator card will be fought inside a cage, while Super Rizin 2 will take place in the traditional Rizin ring.
Outside of Japan, the Bellator card will air live on Showtime in the United States, while Super Rizin 2 will air via PPV on FITE.
The event was originally supposed to be headlined by a Rizin Bantamweight Championship bout between former champion Kai Asakura and former Bellator MMA Bantamweight champion Juan Archuleta. On July 18, 2023 it was announced that Asakura withdrew from the event and would be replaced by Hiromasa Ougikubo.
