ONE SAMURAI 3 is done shopping for fights, and Yokohama just got three more reasons to keep the coffee strong on September 12. After already building momentum with Ryuya Okuwaki vs. Chokdee Maxjandee, the card now has Seiichiro Ito vs. Kazusa Kurobe in strawweight MMA, Asahi Shinagawa vs. Tuakiao in strawweight Muay Thai, and Aiji vs. Yuki Tanaka in featherweight kickboxing.
That is a tidy little combat-sports sampler plate. ONE has MMA, Muay Thai, and kickboxing all jammed into the Yokohama Buntai lineup, which fits the promotion’s usual chaos menu and gives the Japan card a more complete feel than a one-lane showcase. The event lands Saturday, September 12 in Yokohama, Japan.
ONE SAMURAI 3 Gets MMA, Muay Thai And Kickboxing Additions
Ito is the most seasoned name in the new batch. The 32-year-old Reversal Gym Yokohama Groundslam fighter is a former Pancrase flyweight champion with an 18-5 record, and this is not some soft re-entry spot. He dropped a razor-close split decision to Tatsumitsu Wada at ONE SAMURAI 1 in April, so now he gets another crack at grabbing his first ONE win.
Kurobe, 24, comes in from Tribe Tokyo MMA at 7-2 and makes his promotional debut against a veteran who has already been through the bigger-room nerves. That is a mean welcome mat, but if Kurobe wants the division to learn his name quickly, beating Ito would do it faster than any polite introductory package ever could.
Here is the Ito feature ONE used while building the card:
The Muay Thai addition has a hometown hook. Shinagawa is a 24-year-old WBC Muay Thai world champion from EIWA Sports Gym, carries a 35-12 record with 26 finishes, and has already picked up three ONE victories. His most recent outing was a second-round TKO of Salvador Velazquez Villarello, so this is not just a local fighter getting a courtesy spot.
Tuakiao, a 29-year-old Thai debutant, gets the fun assignment of walking into Yokohama and trying to spoil the whole room. That is the kind of fight-booking mischief fans should appreciate, especially on a card that also keeps feeding ONE’s deeper striking pipeline alongside recent names like Yonis Anane.
Watch Shinagawa in action below:
The third addition keeps the all-Japanese energy rolling. Aiji is only 20, trains out of Shinkoh Muaythai Gym, and brings a 7-3 striking record into his ONE debut. Across from him is 22-year-old Yuki Tanaka of Target Shibuya, who enters with nine career wins and the same chance to turn a first ONE appearance into an instant business card.
ONE has been leaning hard into Japan with cards like ONE SAMURAI 4, and this lineup keeps that lane busy. No title is hanging over these three new bouts, but the stakes are still obvious. Ito needs the first ONE win, Shinagawa gets the homecoming pressure cooker, and Aiji and Tanaka get the prospect-on-prospect banger where somebody leaves with a much louder name.
Here is the Aiji post tied to the matchup:
It also gives fans another Japan-focused card to track after Takeru Segawa’s ONE Samurai title moment reminded everybody how wild the Japanese kickboxing scene can get when ONE points the lights at it. September 12 now has a little bit of everything, which is usually when the weird stuff starts happening.
