Key takeaways
Kyoji Horiguchi beat Makoto Shinryu by submission at 3:57 of round two in the main event of RIZIN 45 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama. In the co-main event, Kai Asakura beat Juan Archuleta by knockout at 3:22 of round two at flyweight.
Across the 17 bouts that produced a result, seven ended by knockout, five by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — twelve stoppages in 17 fights. Two of the five decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Igor Tanabe, who stopped Shinsho Anzai at 1:35 of round one, and three of the twelve finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Kleber Koike's submission of Yutaka Saito, 11 minutes and 23 seconds in. End to end, the 17 fights filled two hours and 29 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: seven of its nine results came early, against five of the eight above it. Shinobu Ota (knockout, round one), Koji Tanaka (knockout, round two) and Igor Tanabe (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
One ranked fighters appeared.
Eight weight classes were used, catchweight most often with four bouts.
