GLORY and RISE teamed up for Glory 106 on March 28 in Japan, delivering a card packed with title fights and tournament action. Here are the full results from the event.
GLORY and RISE brought their cross-promotional showcase to Japan on March 28, with Koki Osaki and Shiro Matsumoto meeting in the main event of Glory 106. By the end of the night, Osaki had defended home turf with a unanimous decision win, while the card also helped shape the picture in multiple lower-weight divisions that American kickboxing fans have started tracking more closely through GLORY’s international expansion.
The event mattered beyond a single headline fight. Osaki’s win over Matsumoto in the RISE bantamweight title bout keeps him firmly in the conversation as one of the standout smaller-weight kickboxers in Asia, while Matsumoto missed a chance to score the kind of result that could have elevated his profile internationally. In the co-main event, Ryujin Nasukawa stopped Kaito Hasegawa by fifth-round TKO to claim the vacant RISE super flyweight title, a performance that should only increase attention around him given the Nasukawa family name and its growing crossover recognition among combat sports fans.
Elsewhere, Haruto Yasumoto beat Takumi Terada by unanimous decision at 59 kilograms. In the GLORY x RISE Last Featherweight Standing quarterfinals, Kento Haraguchi outpointed Hiroki Kasahara, Yura Kono knocked out Sung-hyun Lee in the third round, Petch earned a unanimous decision over Abraham Vidales, and Miguel Trindade got past Berjan Peposhi by unanimous decision after an extra round.
The rest of the main card saw Capitan defeat Taiju Shiratori by decision after an extra round at 66 kilograms, while Kan Nakamura scored a first-round knockout of Phet A Cheer at 61.5 kilograms. That kind of result is the one American audiences tend to notice immediately, and it gives Nakamura momentum coming out of one of the more visible kickboxing collaborations of the year.
With GLORY continuing to use events like this to connect Japanese stars with its broader global audience, the biggest thing to watch now is which of these winners gets pushed into the next meaningful international matchup.
