Rizin Fighting Federation 1 - Rizing Fighting 3 Days World Grand Prix. Rizin Fighting Federation has two inaugural events, both to be held in Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan on December 29 and 31 2015. Rizin FF will be broadcast in the North America by Spike TV. Other official partnering broadcasters will be Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. and Fuji Television Network. Both events will host a heavyweight Rizin FF tournament. Quarter finals will take place on December 29 and the semi-finals and the final on December 31.
Official Fight Card
SARABA (Farewell) Fiesta - Dec 29, 2015
Fight card
Main event
Shinya Aoki vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
Satoshi Ishii vs. Jiri Prochazka Heavyweight tournament opening round
Vadim Nemkov vs. Goran Reljic Heavyweight tournament opening round
Teodoras Aukstuolis vs. Bruno Cappelozza Heavyweight tournament opening round
Muhammed Lawal vs. Brett McDermott Heavyweight tournament opening round
Valentin Molfovsky vs. Yuta Uchida Heavyweight tournament reserve fight
DJ. taiki vs. Hiroyuki Takaya
Hideo Tokoro vs. Kizaemon Saiga
A.J. Matthews vs. Anatoly Tokov
Kazauyuki Miyata vs. Hinata Watanabe (Rizin Mix Rules)
Kawabe Hiroya vs. Akiyo Nishiura (K-1 Rules)
Yuki Motoya vs. Felipe Efrain
Carlos Toyota vs. Kirill Sidelnikov
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. James Thompson
IZA (Takeoff) Saltation - Dec 31, 2015
Fight card
Main event
Opponent TBA vs. Opponent TBA Heavyweight tournament final
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jaideep Singh
Kron Gracie vs. Asen Yamamoto
Jermoe Le Banner vs. Kaido Baruto Hoovelson
Andy Souwer vs. Yuichiro Nagashima
Akebono Taro vs. Bob Sapp (ShootBoxing Rules)
Gabi Garcia vs. Lei'D Tapa
Soo Chul Kim vs. Maike Linhares
Yamato Takeru vs. Yang Ming (K-1)
Ken Hasegawa vs. Brennan Ward
Opponent TBA vs. Opponent TBA Heavyweight tournament semi-final
Opponent TBA vs. Opponent TBA Heavyweight tournament semi-final
Rena Kubota vs. Jlena Valentino
Background
Rizin Fighting Federation MMA is a Japanese mixed martial arts organization created in 2015 by the former Pride Fighting Championship president Nobuyuki Sakakibara.
Rizin Fighting Federation has two inaugural events, both to be held in Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan on December 29 and 31 2015.
The most notable fighter under contract with Rizin FF is the former Pride Heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko who is going to return in the IZA Saltation event on December 31, 2015 after three and half years of retirement.
Rizin FF will be broadcast in the North America by Spike TV which is already the broadcaster of Bellator MMA. Other official partnering broadcasters will be Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. and Fuji Television Network.
Partner organizations Bellator MMA, BAMMA, KSW & Jungle Fight are going to provide their fighters for the NYE 3 day events from 29 to 31 December 2015.
Official Site: http://www.rizinff.com/en/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizin_Fighting_Federation
Dec 25 - Updated fight cards
