Hiroba Minowa vs. Yuta Miyazawa, plus more added to ONE SAMURAI 3

A four-fight profitable resume now meets a champion’s pedigree when two contrasting profession paths collide at ONE SAMURAI 3.

Hiroba Minowa meets Yuta Miyazawa in a strawweight MMA showdown when ONE SAMURAI 3 streams reside from Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday, September 12.

Minowa has gained 4 straight since establishing himself within the division, a stretch that features a cut up resolution over former ONE Strawweight MMA World Champion Alex Silva and a ninth-career submission end of beforehand undefeated Karen Ghazaryan this previous April, a efficiency that earned him a US$50,000 bonus.

Miyazawa arrives with a 17-fight profitable ledger and a Pancrase Strawweight Championship captured this previous March, extending his private streak to a few heading into his ONE Championship debut.

The matchup provides one other entry to a resume already thick with numbers. Since making his promotional debut in 2020, Minowa has repeatedly been booked in opposition to top-five opposition, a run that features two former ONE Strawweight MMA World Champions amongst his checklist of opponents.

Hiroba Minowa’s document meets a recent take a look at

Hiroba Minowa’s grappling pedigree makes this matchup a compelling puzzle, since Miyazawa’s wins come from his fingers slightly than takedown protection, and his 17 skilled victories carry actual knockout energy right into a division the place grappling has typically determined the largest nights. Minowa will look to check that hole early, given 4 of his ONE Championship wins have come by means of resolution or submission slightly than knockout.

Elsewhere on the cardboard, Kosei Yoshida’s 9-1 document and four-fight win streak run into Zhao Zhengdong’s unbeaten 3-0 promotional slate in a flyweight kickboxing pairing that provides one other compelling quantity to the night time. Zhao’s total mark of 29-5 stands because the extra battle-tested résumé between the 2, whilst Yoshida chases his tenth profession victory on house soil in entrance of a crowd inside Yokohama Buntai that will likely be watching his first battle again from a call setback.

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