RIZIN flyweight champion Kyoji Horiguchi desires to show that he’s the perfect on the 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 traditional 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 determination.
Simply six months after avenging his loss to Pettis, Kyoji Horiguchi is ready 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 driving a three-fight successful streak, final scoring a first-round stoppage win over Jo Arai in September.
For Kyoji Horiguchi, the bout will probably be his first protection of his flyweight gold. Talking in a latest interview with MMA Combating by a translator, ‘The Typoon’ mentioned his return to preventing. There, Horiguchi was requested a few attainable transfer to 135 kilos. Having held bantamweight gold in RIZIN and Bellator, it’s a sound query.
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Kyoji Horiguchi opens up on his RIZIN return in opposition to Nkazimulo Zulu
Nonetheless, 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 imagine that flyweight is my weight class, and I wish to deal with that.” Kyoji Horiguchi said by a translator. “My aim is to turn into the perfect on the planet at flyweight. I’ve form of shifted in the 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 in all probability consider transferring up.”
He continued, “However proper now, I’m simply centered on changing into the perfect at flyweight… For me, so long as it’s underneath 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 a very good fighter. My plan is to face him wherever the battle takes me, both on the hanging or on the bottom.” (h/t MMA Combating)
What do you make of those feedback from the RIZIN flyweight champion? Do you suppose Kyoji Horiguchi will beat Nkazimulo Zulu?
