Kleber Koike Reclaims Featherweight Title From Chihiro Suzuki In Bloody Brawl: RIZIN 49 Highlights

Kleber Koike Regains RIZIN Featherweight Title Against Chihiro Suzuki In New Year’s Eve Instant Classic

The MMA world crossed into 2025 with a back-and-forth war out of Japan, as Kleber Koike regained the RIZIN Featherweight Championship in a tight decision result over Chihiro Suzuki. The main event, which headlined RIZIN’s annual New Year’s Eve card from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, and actually went past the midnight mark and beyond 2024 locally before the third round started, saw Koike kick off his second reign at featherweight an…

RIZIN Decade Results: Suzuki vs. Koike Featherweight Title Fight

RIZIN 49 occurred at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on December 31, 2024.... The post RIZIN Decade Results: Suzuki vs. Koike Featherweight Title Fight appeared first on FightBook MMA.

Kleber Koike Reclaims Featherweight Title From Chihiro Suzuki In Bloody Brawl: RIZIN 49 Highlights

Kleber Koike reclaimed the RIZIN featherweight championship during the final fight of the promotion’s New Year’s Eve bash inside the legendary Saitama Super Arena in Japan. In June 2023, Koike was stripped of the featherweight crown after he failed to make weight for a title defense against Chihiro Suzuki at RIZIN 43. 18 months later, the two would run it back — this time with Suzuki sitting as the promotion’s reigning featherweight king. It w…