Kento Haraguchi

Kento Haraguchi (原口 健飛), Haraguchi Kento; born (9 April 1998) is a Japanese kickboxer and former boxer, currently competing in the super lightweight division of RISE. He is the 2026 GLORY x RISE Last Featherweight Standing Tournament Winner, the former ISKA Oriental Rules World Light Welterweight (-65 kg) champion, the former RISE Lightweight (-62.5 kg) champion and the 2020 RISE Dead or Alive Lightweight (-62.5 kg) tournament winner. Haraguchi began his competitive career in Full Contact karate. He won three titles in elementary school between 2008 and 2011, four in the middle school between 2012 and 2014, as well as the Dageki Kakutougi Japan Cup in the adult featherweight event in his return to the sport in 2017. In between his two karate stints, Haraguchi fought as a professional boxer, but quit the sport after suffering his first loss in the semifinals of the 2016 West Japan Rookie of the Year tournament. As of April 2023, Haraguchi is ranked as the fifth best super featherweight (-66 kg) kickboxer in the world by Combat Press and the sixth best super featherweight (-67.5 kg) by Beyond Kickboxing, having first entered the Combat Press divisional rankings in July 2022 and Beyond Kickboxing rankings in October 2022. He was previously ranked as a top ten super bantamweight (-64 kg) kickboxer by Combat Press between November 2020 and May 2022.