Kate Lotus competes towards Katie Perez at Rizin 53 on Might tenth. When requested if it was thrilling to get a faster turnaround right here and get again out to the ring after the March setback at Rizin 52, Kate Lotus stated [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“I want combating with fast turnarounds. I imply clearly weight chopping is one thing that’s at all times type of an impediment however for this battle we’ve agreed to catch weight. So weight shouldn’t be a problem.”
When requested if after this catchweight contest she was extra excited by pursuing a path towards RFF tremendous atomweight gold, Kate Lotus acknowledged [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“I personally hope so. Like clearly it’s not on the weight class that I need to pursue. However I’d need it to imply one thing or else it gained’t actually serve a function of combating. So I hope {that a} win towards Katie Perez at this class, this weight, will imply one thing for me to maneuver on with my profession for the tremendous atomweight division.”
Although she sustained a loss in Q1 of 2026, Lotus nonetheless went the gap with a tricky particular person in Saori Oshima, who in the end had fought for the Rizin belt earlier than. When requested what sort of classes she took away from such a contest, Kate Lotus quipped [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“I’m not keen on grapplers. I don’t like grapplers, don’t like going through grapplers. Someplace in my thoughts, I used to be combating to not get submitted. Like, I used to be assured that I used to be capable of defend her submissions. However that type of grew to become my focus in the course of the battle, and I noticed that I needed to be extra aggressive. I needed to battle extra in my phrases.”
“So I feel throughout that battle I actually did understand, and the takeaway was that I must instigate my type. I can’t be on the defensive finish. I can’t be combating to not get submitted, regardless that I’m going through a grappler. That’s one superb factor that I realized from that battle, and now I would like to include my type. I’ve to pressure my type on my opponent, regardless of who or what type that’s.”
Bouncing off of the evaluation that she was capable of defend Oshima’s submission makes an attempt to now combating somebody in Katie Perez, who has a little bit of a monitor document for being a submission artist, Kate Lotus quipped [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Yeah, I do consider that my present coaching undoubtedly permits me to maintain in that mentality and that mindset on having the ability to implement what I realized from the Oshima battle.”
Lotus is changing into a surging star for the promotion having taken on some large names as her cache continues to extend and tons of eyeballs tune in to see her compete stay. When responding to this notion of being underneath the highlight from the Japanese fight sports activities scene, Kate Lotus stated [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“So by way of presence and publicity, I don’t really feel like; just lately I don’t suppose nothing has modified an excessive amount of. However once I did really feel a distinction was once I fought Rena as a result of it was an enormous step up for me. I got here from DEEP, got here to Rizin, after which I fought Rena. So I do do not forget that step up was an enormous [one], persons are speaking about it. I had quite a lot of publicity and bought quite a lot of recognition. I do consider that however nonetheless my latest fights have type of at all times been the identical.”
“I don’t actually really feel like; by no means thought that I’m a star and all that. I don’t actually really feel like I’m obligated to be the face of girls’s MMA in Japan. I can’t actually take into consideration that stuff proper now however nonetheless, I do consider that every one that stuff and obligation or no matter it’s, it should come later. The very first thing for me is that I must win. I must win my fights. I must hold profitable my fights and as soon as I develop into the champion or so long as I carry on profitable, all that stuff will come on later.”
“Possibly I will probably be chargeable for being the face of girls’s MMA or the revitalizing of the present state of girls’s MMA, I’m unsure. However for me, I’m not likely eager about that proper now as a result of if I win all my fights, I feel that can all come later. I really feel like I don’t must attempt to present one thing that I’m actually not.”
After providing a distinction that it was extra so commentary on the eye she is organically getting and never orienting the method to a aware try at creating consideration/ producing superstardom, Kate Lotus acknowledged [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Yeah, I would love to maintain issues genuine. I don’t actually need to attempt to be any person who I’m not. If you’re faking issues, it should collapse and while you’re faking issues, folks will discover. So I simply need to be myself, present myself, and be genuine. Whoever acknowledges that and whoever helps that, I need to battle for them. I need to go away outcomes for these individuals who take a look at me and understand who I’m.”
This authenticity resonated after her Rizin Landmark 12 battle the place regardless of securing a hometown win, Lotus solely critiquing herself. When reflecting on the uncooked and weak nature of a second like that, Kate Lotus quipped [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“I wasn’t actually harsh on myself. Clearly there’s an ideal image in combating. There’s at all times that good second that you just’re at all times going after. However there may be additionally actuality, proper. That some actuality that it’s important to face with on a regular basis on a regular basis issues that it’s important to go over. So for me proper now, I’m nonetheless making an attempt to stability issues out and there are particular issues that I need to do however there are particular issues in actuality that I can’t do. So it’s simply that inner battle proper now.”
“So the perfect means of efficiency is a superb, spectacular knockout. That’s what I need to do and that’s what I feel many fighters need to do. I need to end a battle by a knockout however the actuality is that I don’t have what it takes to do it as of proper now. I’m not tremendous gifted. I can’t actually juggle many issues on the identical time and that’s a actuality I’ve to face. So these are the issues which are just like the hole between the perfect state of affairs and the truth. I simply should work with it and I’ve to move in direction of my goal. Work tougher to have the ability to be that very best determine.”
Additionally of notice, Seika Izawa vacated her tremendous atomweight, and the throne is now vacant at 108 kilos. Touching upon that divisionally related, in a broader profession sense, bit of stories associated to Izawa vacating her belt attributable to being pregnant, Kate Lotus stated [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“After I heard that the title grew to become vacant, the very first thing that got here in my thoughts was, man, I’ve it. I’m fortunate. [Seika] Izawa vacating her belt at this timing once I’m working the toughest, it implies that there’s something I’ve to push for. One thing I’ve to work tougher for and that is it. That is the time the place if I can work exhausting, all my efforts will repay. So it was very motivating for me.”
Kate Lotus desires a RENA rematch and touches on a profession 1st occurring at rizin 53
Referencing how her Rizin debut noticed her get too into her head towards Rena Kubota, when requested if a future rematch with RENA would gold any curiosity for her, Kate Lotus acknowledged [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Oh yeah, I undoubtedly need that rematch. I respect Rena a lot. I imply, she has been main the ladies’s MMA scene in Japan earlier than I even began combating. She’s one of many pioneers of girls’s MMA. Having the ability to compete with any person like that and overcoming any person like that, it means quite a bit. That’s undoubtedly one thing that I’m trying ahead to be doing.”
When it comes to what the headlines will learn within the wake of this intriguing contest this weekend, Kate Lotus quipped [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Yeah, I imply this upcoming battle towards Katie Perez, I’ve to win however it’s extra about how I win. That’s one thing that I actually need work on. To ensure I win it in a really convincing means.”
In summation, as she supplied up her parting ideas because the BTB chat was coming to a detailed, Kate Lotus stated [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“That is the primary time of me combating any person apart from a South Korean. So I’ll be going through any person American for the primary time. Clearly she has a bunch of supporters who will probably be supporting her. She has a bunch of people that will probably be in all probability watching the battle. However even to these Katie supporters, I need to present them that there’s a very enjoyable fighter over right here in Japan.”
“I would like them to know who I’m and I need to present that regardless, I can placed on a enjoyable battle. Clearly for all of the followers who look ahead for my battle, sit up for me profitable, I need to placed on a present for them. So I promise you that Might tenth, I’ll placed on a enjoyable battle and I wish to go get that win.”
