Key takeaways
Mikuru Asakura beat Juntarou Ushiku by unanimous decision after three rounds in the main event of RIZIN LANDMARK 5 in YOYOGI at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Yutaka Saito beat Ren Hiramoto after three rounds at featherweight.
Across the eight bouts that produced a result, two ended by knockout, one by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — three stoppages in eight fights. Two of the five decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Shinobu Ota, who stopped Kazuma Kuramoto after 34 seconds, and two of the three finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Claire Lopez's submission of Rena Kubota, 14 minutes and 26 seconds in. End to end, the eight fights filled one hour and 34 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: two of its five results came early, against one of the three above it. Claire Lopez (submission, round three) and Ali Abdulkhalikov (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Four weight classes were used, catchweight most often with three bouts.