In the RIZIN Thor 33 tournament that ended in Saitama, Japan, on December 31, the undefeated "fighting prodigy" Nasukawa and the former PRIDE lightweight champion Takanori Gomi in the "Special Boxing Rules" match.
The 43-year-old fighting legend Takanori Gomi won the PRIDE Lightweight Championship Gold Belt in 2005 and successfully defended the title once in 2006. He signed for UFC events in 2010 until he left the octagon in 2017.
The 23-year-old Nasugawa Tenshin is known as the "Fighting Prodigy" and maintains an unbeaten record in both kickboxing and MMA matches.
On the same day of New Year's Eve on December 31, 2018, Nasugawa Tenshin and Mayweather held a boxing exhibition match in which Mayweather KO Nasugawa Tenshin won, but this brought Nasugawa Tenshin to the world's attention.
Before the race, he weighed 75.3 kg of Gomi Takanori and 62 kg of Nasugawa Tenshin, but it did not affect the excitement of the race in the slightest.
In this 3-minute, 2-round "Special Boxing Rules" exhibition match, although the weight was not dominant, Nasugawa Tenshin took advantage of his obvious speed advantage to attack at the beginning.
His rapid thrusts were fired at the head and torso of The Five Tastes, hitting his opponents frequently.
Although it is relatively passive, the Five Taste Longdian is by no means an idle person, and after stabilizing his position, he constantly uses the front and back control distance to start launching a fierce counterattack, and the blowing punch also hits.
In the second round, in the face of Nasugawa Tenshin's rapid attack, Gomi Takanori began to attack the opponent with his backhand, and one of the fast combinations hit Nasugawa Tenshin hard.
Before Nasugawa Tenshin could adjust over, Gomi Takanori combined his fists again to suppress Nasugawa Tenshin in the corner of the rope, and Nasugawa Tenshin was somewhat passive.
Next, he made a slight adjustment and immediately used his speed advantage to continue to launch a counterattack, and The Five Tastes Longdian resolutely implemented his own heavy blow playing style, and the two sides came and went until the end of the special exhibition match, and finally the game ended in a draw.
In June 2022, Nasugawa Tenshin will compete with another leading Figure in Japanese kickboxing, Krush Champion and K-1's third-tier champion Takeru Segawa, in a japanese martial arts century battle with kickboxing rules, in which two talented Japanese boxers will duel between two talented Japanese boxers. Nasugawa Tenshin will then continue his career in professional boxing.