Key takeaways
Chihiro Suzuki beat Masanori Kanehara by knockout at 4:23 of round one in the main event of Rizin 46 at the Tokyo Ariake Arena in Tokyo. In the co-main event, Shinobu Ota beat Juntarou Ushiku by unanimous decision after three rounds at bantamweight.
Across the ten bouts that produced a result, five ended by knockout, one by submission and four on the judges' scorecards — six stoppages in ten fights. One of the four decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Tatsuki Shinotsuka, who stopped Justyn Martinez at 1:20 of round one, and four of the six finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Ilkhom Nazimov's knockout of Sora Yamamoto, 8 minutes and 40 seconds in. End to end, the ten fights filled one hour and 28 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: one of its one results came early, against five of the nine above it. Tatsuki Shinotsuka (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Three weight classes were used, featherweight most often with five bouts.