Beynoa, the 31-year-old American striker known as "Black Panther", is 6-4 in MMA as of 8 September 2026 and went 18-5 (9 KO) in kickboxing as the second RISE welterweight champion. He opens Super RIZIN.5 at Kyocera Dome Osaka on 10 September 2026 against Hide Mason Usami under RIZIN open-finger-glove kickboxing rules at a 71.0 kg contract weight.
Hide Mason Usami, 25, of team VASILEUS is the 4th RISE Welterweight Champion, with a kickboxing record of 9-0-2 (5 KOs) in 11 bouts as of 8 September 2026. He faces Beynoa at Super RIZIN.5 on 10 September 2026 at Kyocera Dome Osaka, at a 71.0kg catchweight under RIZIN kickboxing rules (open-finger gloves, 3min x 3R).
Natasha Kuziutina, the Rio 2016 Olympic judo bronze medalist at -52kg, is 10-1 in professional MMA as of 8 September 2026. She faces RENA at Super RIZIN.5 in Kyocera Dome Osaka on 10 September at 49.0kg — a tournament eliminator, not a title fight, according to RIZIN.
RENA (Rena Kubota) is a 35-year-old striker out of Caesar Gym with a 15-6-0 professional MMA record as of 8 September 2026. On 10 September 2026 she faces Rio 2016 judo bronze medallist Natasha Kuziutina in bout two of Super RIZIN.5 at Kyocera Dome Osaka, at a 49.0 kg contract weight under RIZIN MMA rules.
Ryo Takagi is a Japanese featherweight (66.0 kg) with an 11-3 professional MMA record — 8 wins by KO/TKO, as of September 8, 2026 — and three straight RIZIN wins. He meets Vugar Karamov in the third bout of Super RIZIN.5 at Kyocera Dome Osaka on September 10, 2026. Born September 12, 1999 in Chiba Prefecture, he is 26.
Vugar Karamov is a 34-year-old MMA fighter from Baku, Azerbaijan with a 21-7 record as of September 8, 2026. The former 4th RIZIN featherweight champion, who took the belt by submitting Mikuru Asakura in 2023, faces Ryo Takagi at 66.0kg on the September 10 Super RIZIN.5 card at Kyocera Dome Osaka.
YA-MAN (Ren Sugiyama, 30) is 3-2 in MMA — all three wins by KO/TKO — as of Sept 8, 2026, and faces Yutaka Saito at Super RIZIN.5 on Sept 10 at Kyocera Dome Osaka, an MMA featherweight bout at 66.0 kg over three five-minute rounds. He is the inaugural RISE Open Finger Glove -65 kg champion and returns from a layoff dating to July 2025.
Karshyga Dautbek is a 32-year-old featherweight from Shymkent, Kazakhstan with a 19-3 record and 1 no contest as of September 8, 2026, 15 of those wins by KO/TKO. He faces Ren Hiramoto at a 66.0kg contract weight at Super RIZIN.5 on September 10, 2026 at Kyocera Dome Osaka, riding an 11-fight winning streak since March 2019.
Shunta Nomura is a 28-year-old Japanese lightweight who is 10-2 (4 KO/TKO, 6 decisions) as of September 8, 2026 and holds the DEEP lightweight belt as the promotion's 13th champion. He returns from roughly 13 months out to meet former RIZIN champion Roberto Satoshi Souza in a non-title 71.0 kg bout at Super RIZIN.5, Kyocera Dome Osaka, on September 10, 2026.
Rei Tsuruya is 12-1 (6 submissions). He submitted Kevin Borjas at 4:14 of round one at UFC Shanghai on 29 August 2026 — his second first-round submission in three months. He is 24.
"The Kung Fu Kid" is 24-9-1 and ranked No. 6 at UFC bantamweight. He debuted in the Octagon at 19 and knocked out Umar Nurmagomedov at 1:48 of round two in the UFC Shanghai main event on home soil on August 29, 2026.
A 20-2 Russian bantamweight ranked No. 3 by the UFC. He was knocked out by Song Yadong at 1:48 of round two in the UFC Shanghai main event on August 29, 2026 — his second defeat, after a January 2025 title challenge.
Dagestani flyweight, 6-2, a 2025 RIZIN Flyweight GP semifinalist. Returning after about 11 months at RIZIN.54 on 11 August 2026, he was stopped by Yuki Ito in round two of bout 6.
Uzbek bantamweight, 6-3 with all six wins by KO/TKO. At RIZIN.54 on 11 August 2026 he was submitted by Joji Goto with a rear-naked choke at 3:41 of round one. His older brother is UFC flyweight Ramazan Temirov.
Chinese featherweight, 17-8, nicknamed 'the Chinese Takanori Gomi.' In his second RIZIN appearance he stopped Arata Mizuno at 4:27 of round one in bout 1 of RIZIN.54 (11 August 2026).
Bantamweight, 20-9. He challenged for the RIZIN title in April 2026; in his first fight back he submitted Azizbek Temirov at 3:41 of round one in bout 4 of RIZIN.54 (11 August 2026).
DEEP interim featherweight champion, 9-1. The 183cm southpaw makes his RIZIN debut against Kaiwen Li in bout 1 of RIZIN.54 on August 11, 2026.
Ryoma Shishimoto, who fights as Jolie, is 4-1 in pro MMA with every win a finish (2 KO/TKO, 2 submissions). He was knocked out by Joe Hiramoto at 1:36 of round one at 57.0kg at RIZIN.54 on 11 August 2026 — his first defeat.
Issa Hosokawa is the 2nd BreakingDown lightweight champion. His pro MMA record stands at 0-1: he lost his professional MMA debut to Naoki Tanaka at RIZIN.54 on 11 August 2026 (TKO, doctor's stoppage, round two).
Naoki Tanaka, the 7th RISE lightweight champion turned MMA fighter, is 4-2 with all four wins by finish. He beat Issa Hosokawa at a 69kg catchweight at RIZIN.54 on 11 August 2026 (TKO, doctor's stoppage, round two).
