RIZIN flyweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi desires to show that he’s the perfect on this planet.
‘The Storm’ hasn’t been seen within the ring since a bantamweight conflict with Sergio Pettis in June. In a rematch of their Bellator 272 basic which noticed ‘The Phenom’ rating a knockout win, Kyoji Horiguchi dominated. After quarter-hour of motion, he moved his unbeaten streak to 5 by unanimous resolution.
Simply six months after avenging his loss to Pettis, Kyoji Horiguchi is about to return to the RIZIN ring. On the firm’s year-end present subsequent week, the flyweight champion will meet Nkazimulo Zulu. ‘Zulu Boy’ enters the bout using a three-fight successful streak, final scoring a first-round stoppage win over Jo Arai in September.
For Kyoji Horiguchi, the bout might be his first protection of his flyweight gold. Talking in a current interview with MMA Preventing via a translator, ‘The Typoon’ mentioned his return to combating. There, Horiguchi was requested a couple of doable transfer to 135 kilos. Having held bantamweight gold in RIZIN and Bellator, it’s a legitimate query.
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Kyoji Horiguchi opens up on his RIZIN return in opposition to Nkazimulo Zulu
Nevertheless, that’s not what the 34-year-old is specializing in proper now. Heading into his RIZIN return, Kyoji Horiguchi simply desires to show that he’s the perfect 125-pound fighter on the planet. Having been undefeated at flyweight for almost a decade, the Japanese star plans so as to add Zulu to his resume by any means essential.
“I consider that flyweight is my weight class, and I wish to concentrate on that.” Kyoji Horiguchi acknowledged via a translator. “My aim is to develop into the perfect on this planet at flyweight. I’ve type of shifted in direction of flyweight and specializing in there as a substitute of going forwards and backwards between the 2 divisions. As for bantamweight, as soon as I obtain my aim at flyweight, then I can most likely consider transferring up.”
He continued, “However proper now, I’m simply targeted on turning into the perfect at flyweight… For me, so long as it’s beneath the flyweight division, I’m all the time able to tackle anyone. So far as my opponent himself, he’s very athletic, and he’s very explosive, and I believe he’s fighter. My plan is to face him wherever the combat takes me, both on the hanging or on the bottom.” (h/t MMA Preventing)
What do you make of those feedback from the RIZIN flyweight champion? Do you assume Kyoji Horiguchi will beat Nkazimulo Zulu?
