Naoki Inoue | Photo via RIZIN Naoki Inoue looks to extend his reign as RIZIN bantamweight champion when he faces off with DEEP titleholder Ryuya Fukuda at Super RIZIN 4 , which goes down Sunday morning in Saitama, Japan Plus, Inoue would also introduce him to international viewers as one of the world’s best bantamweights and open doors for bigger challenges out there. Photo via Inoue’s Instagram Naoki Inoue and Merab Dvalishvili training together in 2019 “My dream fight would be fighting the current UFC bantamweight champion,” Inoue told MMA Fighting through a translator. “However, right now the current bantamweight champion is Merab [Dvalishvili] and I used to train him with him, so I don’t really want to call him out because we know each other, we trained together.