Floyd Mayweather and Mikuru Asakawa Face Off in ABEMA's Complete Live Coverage of SUPER RIZIN & RIZIN.38 Matches Starting Sunday, September 25

ABEMA will air live coverage of all matches at SUPER RIZIN and at RIZIN.38 presented by Shonan Beauty Clinic (RIZIN.38 below), martial arts events at the Saitama Super Arena, beginning at 12 p.m. on Sunday, September 25, 2022. PPV tickets will be available for purchase both in Japan and overseas.

World-renowned legendary boxer Floyd Mayweather will take on Japan's top mixed martial arts fighter, Mikuru Asakawa, in a faceoff with RIZIN's Standing Bout rules. The event is packed with this and many more irresistible matchups for martial arts fans.

RIZIN is a mixed martial sports competition that incorporates rules from kickboxing, boxing, grappling, and other sports and is considered as the top fight event in Japan that has produced a stream of top fighters. The tournament has recently made a big push to showcase women's events, as well. SUPER RIZIN and RIZIN.38 are two of the biggest fight events in the second half of 2022.

ABEMA was established with funding by CyberAgent, one of Japan's leading internet companies, and major Japanese television broadcaster TV Asahi. Ever since the service's 2016 launch, ABEMA has been airing a variety of domestic and international sports competitions. ABEMA sold over 500,000 PPV tickets this June for the PPV broadcast of Yogibo presents THE MATCH 2022, a fight between Tenshin Nasukawa and Takeru Segawa that generated huge buzz.
*https://www.cyberagent.co.jp/en/news/detail/id=27733

ABEMA plans to continue delivering a wide range of major and minor sports, including: free live broadcasts of all 64 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 matches, the PGA Championship (one of four major events for men's golf), the U.S. Women's Open presented by ProMedica, games from the 2022 Major League Baseball season, and the JPSA Japan Pro Surfing Tour 2022. By airing and streaming a variety of sports content, ABEMA will keep giving viewers the allure and emotion of sports.