Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-05-06, great performance by both fighters: the kickboxing match Buakaw Banchamek vs Rukiya Anpo gets three stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Kickboxing Fights of 2023).
Anpo vs Buakaw is scheduled to take place Saturday, May 6th, at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo (Japan), in a 3-round super welterweight (154 lbs, 69.9 kg) bout; it is on the undercard of Kai Asakura vs Yuki Motoya – Rizin 42. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Buakaw Banchamek record
The two time K-1 World MAX champion Buakaw Banchamek entered this fight with a professional kickboxing record of 240-24-13 (73 knockouts).
He lost to Jonay Risco in 2018 (Buakaw Banchamek vs Jonay Risco), but since then he has won eight bouts defeating Chris Ngimbi (Buakaw Banchamek vs Chris Ngimbi) and Dmitry Varats in his last two (Buakaw Banchamek vs Dmitry Varats).
But if you want to watch Buakaw’s best fights, here are three bouts ranked in the top 10 Users’ muay thai Fights of the Year 2015 and 2017:
- Buakaw Banchamek vs Khayal Dzhaniev, also rated with four stars,
- Buakaw Banchamek vs Azize Hlali,
- Buakaw vs Marouan Toutouh.
Buakaw’s next fight: Buakaw Banchamek vs Yasuhiro Kido
Rukiya Anpo record
His opponent, the black belt in karate and 2019 K-1 super-Lw champ Rukiya Anpo, has an official record of 26-8-0 (14 knockouts) and he entered as the No.4 in the welterweight division.
He was defeated by Masaaki Noiri in 2021 but then he has won over Kaito, Playchumpon Sor.Srisomphong and Kosei Yamada.
Fight card
Here is the Rizin 42 full fight card (we are going to update it after the weigh-in):
MAIN CARD
Kai Asakura vs Yuki Motoya
Naoki Inoue vs Juan Archuleta
Roberto Satoshi Souza vs Spike Carlyle
Buakaw Banchamek vs Rukiya Anpo
PRELIMINARY CARD
Kota Miura vs YA-MAN
John Dodson vs Tatsuki Saomoto
Takahiro Ashida vs Kazumasa Majima
Ulka Sasaki vs Boyd Allen
Atsushi Kishimoto vs Viktor Kolesnik
Yuki Ito vs Erson Yamamoto
Takuya Yamamoto vs Takeji Yokoyama
Ramazan Temirov vs Yuta Hamamoto
Yasuhiro Kido vs Sota Kimura
Weigh-in
Watch the video of Rizin 42: Buakaw vs Anpo weigh-in from the official RIZIN FIGHTING FEDERATION Youtube channel!
Full fight video / highlights
Here we are going to post a selection of the best videos about the bout Buakaw Banchamek vs Rukiya Anpo as soon as the match ends. If you have seen the full fight you can rate it at the bottom of this post. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook, etc. and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
SPOILER
Result
Who won Buakaw vs Anpo fight?
Buakaw Banchamek vs Rukiya Anpo ended in a draw via unanimous decision.
