Tape Delay Kickboxing 26: RISE 168 - 2023-05-28
An excellent main event as Tessa De Kom gets a title shot after previously defeating Manazo Kobayashi in December.
Volume 26
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RISE 168 - 2023-05-28
Korakuen Hall, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
RISE QUEEN Fly champion Manazo Kobayashi takes on Tessa De Kom in a rematch of the Christmas Day non-title fight that Tessa won. RISE also begins a four-fighter tournament to crown the first RISE QUEEN Bantam champion. In the semi-final, Koki Osaki and Ryoga Terayama have a rematch of their February RISE 165 main event that ended in a technical majority draw after Terayama’s balls were repeatedly destroyed by low blows.
RISE Basics: Most fights are 3 3-minute rounds with a single 3-minute extra round if it’s a draw. 3 knockdowns in a round is a TKO, or 2 if it’s a tournament fight. Judges are fairly liberal with 10-10 round scoring, so you will often see fights scored 30-30 or 30-29. K-1 Kickboxing rules: knees are legal, elbows are not. Clinch must be broken with an immediate strike or the ref will separate. Title matches are five rounds and use open scoring.
Continuing RISE’s weird style of posting, the fights have commentary but no graphics including on-screen clock. Sorry. Fights highlighted in bold were ones that I found particularly entertaining.
Opening Fights
RINA (0-0-1) vs. MEI (Debut) (108)
Ayaka Nishihara (3-0, 0 KO) vs. Honoka Kobayashi (2-0, 0 KO) (99)
Shuma (3-0, 2 KO) vs. Ryunosuke Ito (2-0, 0 KO) (114)
Main Card
#17 Shun Shiraishi (3-1, 1 KO) vs. Koki Shiratori (4-1, 4 KO) (127)
#6 Miyagin (5-4, 4 KO) vs. MAX Yoshida (0-2) (Heavy)
#5 Taichi Ishikawa (3-1-1, 1 KO) vs. Kosuke Takagi (6-1, 4 KO) (149)
#4 YAYA Weerasakreck (13-3-2, 2 KO) vs. Melty Kira (3-5-2, 0 KO) (115)
#3 Masa Sato (25-19-4, 13 KO) vs. #6 Yutaro Asahi (11-8, 1 KO) (143)
RISE QUEEN Bantam Title Tournament Semi-Final: #6-52 Seina (10-5-2, 2 KO) vs. Yura Kamiya (1-3, 0 KO) (121)
RISE QUEEN Bantam Title Tournament Semi-Final: Yuuka Murakami (8-3, 1 KO) vs. #5-52 KOKOZ (7-6, 0 KO) (121)
Semi-final: #1 Koki Osaki (29-7-1, 18 KO) vs. #2 Ryoga Terayama (9-1-4, 1 KO) (121)
Main Event - RISE QUEEN Fly Title Match: (C) Manazo Kobayashi (17-6-4, 3 KO) vs. #1 Tessa De Kom (15-2-1) (5R 115)