Rizin 39: Ushiku vs. Koike Erbst will be a Combat sport event held by Rizin Fighting Federation which is scheduled to take place on October 23, 2022, at the Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall A in Fukuoka, Japan.
Fight Card
Main Card
Featherweight 66 kg Japan Juntaro Ushiku (c) vs. Japan Kleber Koike Erbst Featherweight Championship
Heavyweight 120 kg Japan Tsuyoshi Sudario vs. Romania Janos Csukas
Lightweight 71 kg Japan Yusuke Yachi vs. South Africa Boyd Allen
Lightweight 71 kg Japan Koji Takeda vs. United States Zach Zane
Preliminary Card
Catchweight 75 kg Japan Shinji Sasaki vs. Japan Sho Patrick Usami
Welterweight 77 kg Japan Daichi Abe vs. Japan Yukinari Tamura
Bantamweight 61 kg Japan Genji Umeno vs. Australia Trent Girdham Kickboxing
Featherweight 66 kg Japan Takahiro Ashida vs. Japan Hirotaka Nakada
Featherweight 66 kg Japan Yoshiki Nakahara vs. Japan Akira Haraguchi
Bantamweight 61 kg Japan Motonobu Tezuka vs. Azerbaijan Mehman Mamedov
Catchweight 57.5 kg Japan Shogo Kuriaki vs. Japan Kakeru Kickboxing
Catchweight 63 kg Japan REITO BRAVELY vs. Japan Koichiro Seki Kickboxing
Background
The main event is the featherweight title match between Champion Ushiku and Challenger Kleber.
The main feature of the Fukuoka tournament, which will be the first in about four years, is the title match between the current featherweight champion Juntaro Ushiku, who will be defending his second title, and Kleber Koike, who will challenge him in his first title fight.
About a year has passed since Ushiku won the belt held by Yutaka Saito in his first RIZIN competition at the Yokohama tournament last October, and won it with a TKO victory. This time, in Fukuoka, he will meet Kleber Koike, the jiu-jitsu demon god who won all his fights in RIZIN.
Whether the champion, Ushiku, will make a second defense, or whether Kleber will shine as the new champion, is a the question!
The co-main event will be Tsuyoshi Sudario, who is currently on a two-game winning streak versus Janos Csukas of Hungary, who boasts a record of 7 wins from 7 professional matches and a finish rate of 100%.
