Shooto held its third all-female Colors event tonight at Shinjuku FACE in Tokyo, Japan. Shooto: “Colors 3” featured a vacant Shooto Women’s Atomweight Championship bout between Zenny “Lady Gogo” Huang and Aira Koga, who previously fought each other on the inaugural Colors card.

In the co-main event, Shooto Women’s Super Atomweight Champion Ayaka Watanabe clashed with Bo Hyun “The Witch” Park in a non-title strawweight matchup. Undefeated teen prospect Ayane Hirata battled Seo Young Park at atomweight. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for the “Colors 3” card.

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Rizin FF and two-division Deep Jewels champ Seika Izawa next competes on September 29th at Rizin Fighting Federation 48 in Saitama, Japan. Izawa is set to face 2017 Rizin Grand Prix Champion Kanna Asakura in a non-title bout, which will serve as the 26-year-old Asakura’s retirement fight.

Officials announced the matchup during “Super Rizin 3” earlier today. The undefeated Izawa faced another retiring opponent, Miyuu Yamamoto, on New Year’s Eve before most recently winning the Deep Jewels atomweight title. Asakura last fought in April 2023 when she defeated Mei Yamaguchi.

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Rena Kubota overcame some early adversity and made her case for a future title shot with a punishing second-round TKO win tonight at Rizin Fighting Federation: “Super Rizin 3” in Saitama, Japan. Kubota stopped Deep Jewels prospect Kate “Lotus” Oyama in women’s super atomweight action.

Tonight’s victory was Kubota’s third in her past four fights for Rizin, where she has been a top star for close to nine years despite never holding the promotion’s women’s title. She hopes to get a shot at the 108-pound belt, which is currently held by champion Seika Izawa, sometime later this year.

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After competing for more than 15 years, veteran bantamweight and flyweight contender Shizuka Sugiyama at last captured her first major MMA title tonight at Pancrase 346 in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. Sugiyama choked out Honoka Shigeta in the first round to become Flyweight Queen of Pancrase.

Tonight’s championship victory is the culmination of a long MMA journey for Sugiyama, who made her debut at the inaugural Jewels event in November 2008 and later went on to challenge for Deep Jewels titles at both 125 and 135 pounds. She used a ninja choke to take Shigeta’s belt in the brief fight.

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Recent interim strawweight title challenger Machi Fukuda hopes to rebound after back-to-back razor-thin decision defeats when she next competes on September 8th at Deep Jewels 46 in Tokyo, Japan. Fukuda meets France’s Morgane “Souris” Manfredi in one of 11 bouts announced for the card.

In a 49kg super atomweight bout, Namiko “Hime” Kawabata clashes with fellow striker Saki Kitamura. Former Deep Jewels Microweight Champion Aya Murakami takes on Yuko Kiryu at atomweight, and Momoko Yamazaki battles teen prospect Mahina China in a featured microweight matchup.

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Strawweight Queen of Pancrase Champion Haruka “Salt” Hasegawa will make her first title defence on September 29th at Pancrase 347 in Tokyo, Japan. Hasegawa is set to face off against former Pancrase champion and current Shooto titleholder Emi “Kamikaze Angel” Fujino on the card.

Pancrase officials announced the title fight this week along with two more women’s matchups so far. Newly-crowned Atomweight Queen of Pancrase Champion Satomi “Sarami” Takano faces Yerin “Ghost” Hong in non-title action, and former flyweight champ Takayo Hashi meets Fumika Watanabe.

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Invicta Fighting Championships returned to its original home at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas tonight with a card featuring international talent. Invicta FC 55 was headlined by a bantamweight championship bout as defending champion Talita Bernardo faced challenger “Big Bad” Olga Rubin.

In the strawweight co-main event, Kay Hansen returned to Invicta FC for the first time since 2020 when she took on undefeated Sayury Canon. Deep and Deep Jewels Microweight Champion Saori Oshima met Andressa Romero at atomweight. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for Invicta FC 55.

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Rena Kubota will seek her second victory of 2024 when she competes on July 28th at Rizin Fighting Federation: “Super Rizin 3” in Saitama, Japan. Kubota faces off against Deep Jewels prospect Kate “Lotus” Oyama, who makes her promotional debut, in a featured super atomweight matchup.

The bout between Kubota and Oyama was officially announced during Rizin FF 47 today. Kubota has had ups and downs in recent fights, but she has won six of her past eight bouts and remains a top star for Rizin. Oyama is coming off of her biggest victory to date at Deep Jewels 44 in March.

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