ONE SAMURAI 4, Rkena vs PFL results: Haggerty, Abramishvili win

Two cards on Saturday morning, two very different moods. Tokyo was a title show that mostly went the way the money said, with one champion finally finding the finish he had been missing. Tbilisi was a home crowd watching its fighters strangle, armbar and elbow their way through a 15-fight card, and only five of those fights needed judges. Both cards were good. One of them was a lot more fun.

I will admit a rooting interest in the second one. I will also admit, further down, that my picks for the first one were not great.

ONE SAMURAI 4: Haggerty finally gets one out of there

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Jonathan Haggerty kept the bantamweight kickboxing title at ONE SAMURAI 4 in Ariake Arena by stopping Hiroki Akimoto at 0:42 of the third round. That is the number that matters, because Akimoto does not get stopped. In 13 previous ONE appearances in our records, every single Akimoto fight went to the scorecards, wins and losses alike, including both of his five-round title fights in 2022. Haggerty is the first man in that run to take the decision away from the judges.

It also ends a quiet stretch for Haggerty. Since Superlek knocked him out in the first round in September 2024, he had gone the full five twice in this title, against Wei Rui and against Yuki Yoza. His last stoppage before Saturday was the TKO of Felipe Lobo in February 2024. He is now 4-0 in bantamweight kickboxing title bouts in our records, starting with the November 2023 knockout of Fabricio Andrade, and 11-3 in ONE overall. The sportsbook consensus closed him at -378, roughly 75 percent once the margin is stripped. I picked him by decision. Half right.

Nadaka kept the atomweight Muay Thai title by TKO of Rifdean Masdor at 1:00 of round 2. Nadaka had also fought on September 12, a kickboxing decision over Har Ling Om, so this was a title defense five weeks later. He is 7-0 in ONE in our records, and this was the first of his three title bouts that did not go five rounds. Masdor came in on five straight wins, three of them first-round knockouts, and was priced like a man who did not belong: +785 at the close against Nadaka's -1347. The market was right about the winner. I picked Nadaka by decision, which was wrong about how.

The card lost three bouts on the way to fight week: Superlek against Jonathan Di Bella for the flyweight kickboxing title fell off in August, and so did Marat Grigorian against Luo Chao and Rukiya Anpo against Bogdan Shumarov. Tokyo still got ten fights, and six of them ended early if you count the submission grappling match at the bottom of the card.

The picks I got wrong, and the three underdogs

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In our predictions piece on Thursday, I wrote that the market was reading something in Nabil Anane that his last two results did not show, and that I was not sure I saw it. I picked Yoza. Anane won a unanimous decision, and I would like that sentence back. Anane closed at -148 against Yoza's +121, which means this was not an upset at all; it was the favorite winning a fight I talked myself out of. Anane had lost two straight, both in Muay Thai, and he came back to kickboxing and beat the man who went five rounds with Haggerty in April.

The one I did get right was Masaaki Noiri over Mohammad Siasarani. The line flipped during the week, from Siasarani as a slight favorite at the open to Noiri at -138 at the close, and Noiri took a split decision. It ended a six-fight win streak for Siasarani that ran back to April 2025, and it is Noiri's second straight win since his five-round loss to Superbon in a unification bout last November. A split is a split, and I will not pretend I saw it clearly. But the line moved toward him for a reason.

Closing favorites went 7-3 in Tokyo. The three underdogs who won:

• Itsuki Hirata (+141) took a unanimous decision over Jihin Radzuan in the card's MMA atomweight bout. The market moved away from her all week, from roughly even at the open to +141 at the close, and she won anyway. That is two straight wins for Hirata after the April submission of Ritu Phogat, and two straight losses for Radzuan.
• Sinsamut Klinmee (+132) knocked out Shintaro Matsukura at 1:18 of round 2, snapping a two-fight losing streak.
• Shoma Okumura (+117) outpointed Toki Tamaru at strawweight.

Further down, Kota Abe stopped Shozo Isojima at 1:37 of the first, Ryoto Nishiyama knocked out Yu Takeuchi at 1:00 of the first for his second straight first-round knockout, and Masaki Takeura submitted 49-year-old Yoshinari Fukushima in the first round of the grappling match.

Rkena vs PFL: the armbar, and the home side

Nikoloz Abramishvili submitted Aaron McKenzie with an armbar at 3:29 of round 2 in the Rkena vs PFL main event at the Tbilisi Sport Palace, a five-round fight at 165 pounds. McKenzie came in 12-2-1 and had not lost an MMA fight since a split decision in Bellator in February 2020, five straight wins since. Abramishvili came in 9-3, having lost twice in a row in 2024 and 2025, and has now won three straight, all under the Rkena banner. The win over McKenzie is easily the best of the three.

The co-main changed late. Bakhtiyar Nesipbek, originally booked against Seyedali Asli, ended up facing Abdul Kamara after Kamara's bout with Bekzat Almakhan fell through, and knocked him out 30 seconds into round 2. Kamara had come in 11-2.

The result that will travel furthest is Ibragim Ibragimov submitting Nika Kupravishvili with a rear-naked choke at 3:44 of the second. Ibragimov came in 10-0, with four PFL wins in our records, three of them decisions. He leaves 11-0 and with a submission over a Georgian in Georgia, which is not nothing.

I cannot tell you from our data which corner was officially wearing which team's colors, so there is no Rkena-against-PFL scoreboard here. What I can tell you: four fighters on the card have PFL bouts in our records (Ibragimov, Tracy Reeder, Pedro Carvalho and David Mora), and they went 2-2. The home side did better. Georgian fighters went 8-2 on the night; the only two losses were Kupravishvili to Ibragimov and Manuchar Kvashilava to Seyedali Asli.

Tbilisi by the numbers

Ten of the 15 bouts ended inside the distance. Seven were submissions, five of them rear-naked chokes. Seven of the finishes came in the first round, the fastest being Sandro Tevzadze choking out Rob Cunningham at 0:36.

Eleven fighters walked in unbeaten. Seven walked out that way: Ibragimov, Elene Loladze (now 5-0, arm-triangle at 2:28 of round 1), Giorgi Poladishvili (5-0, elbows at 4:12 of round 1), Tevzadze (4-0), Joshua Adeboye (3-0), Zurab Ivaniadze (3-0) and Gimbat Magomedov (2-0). Ivaniadze took the zero from a 5-0 Mücahit Aydin over three rounds; Mora did the same to a 4-0 Alim Nabiev by majority decision.

If you missed either show, our earlier guides to ONE SAMURAI 4 and Rkena vs PFL cover how each was broadcast.

Which leaves Haggerty with an awkward question. He has beaten the last two men to challenge for this belt, and finished a former champion who had heard the judges read a verdict in all 13 of his previous ONE fights. The man who last beat him, Superlek, was booked on this same card for a different title and never made it. Is there anyone left in the division worth his time, or is the only fight that matters the one that knocked him out two years ago?