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It just seems like yesterday was RIZIN 17. This weekend we have another RIZIN show gracing our FITE TV apps this weekend. RIZIN 18 takes place a the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya and might be seen initially as one of their less important shows. On paper, it reads differently. There are a ...
RIZIN FF has announced four more fights for the RIZIN 18 show in Nagoya. The show is to be headlined by RIZN and Bellator bantamweight Champion Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Kai Asakura in a non-title match. There will be some returning fighters along with some debuts. Kazuma Sone vs. Justin Scoggins Forme...
Haruo Ochi set to defend strawweight championship at DEEP 88 Impact The should-be stacked DEEP 88 Impact x DEEP JEWELS 23 show keeps loading up with the addition of multiple new bouts. This new batch of announcements continues to focus on the DEEP 88 Impact portion of the card. In his first bout ...
Roque Martinez (12-3-2) is preparing for the biggest fight of his career. On September 30th, he fights one of the final bosses of the MMA heavyweight division, Mirko Cro Cop (36-11-2, 1NC). Cro Cop needs no introduction. The Croatian heavyweight has a long list of impressive finishes over the lik...
Women’s MMA has seen quite the evolution over the past two decades. What once took a complete backseat to the men’s sport has evolved into women being featured in the main events of the largest promotions in the world. This is a timeline of women’s MMA history. Early Days July 18, 1995: First-eve...
February 2018 provided a decent number of contenders for a potential Fight of the Month candidate. The first event of the month was CES 48, where we saw the first potential contender as Brian Marino and Jerome Mickle slugged it out in Rhode Island. That same weekend we saw Thiago Santos and Antho...
One of the most respected fighters in the history of combat sports, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipović is back. The 43-year-old legend fighting out of Croatia will return to the ring on December 31 when he takes on another veteran in the form of 47-year-old “TK”, Tsuyoshi Kosaka. Mirko Cro Cop ends retire...
RIZIN is back! At around 1am ET on July 30, RIZIN returns with the first round of their stacked bantamweight grand-prix. In that tournament, we will see elite flyweight Kyoji Horiguchi, Japanese-vet Hideo Tokoro, and former MFC champion Anthony Birchak. RIZIN World Grand-Prix 2017: 1st Round – L...
After recently declining a contract offer from the UFC, #3 ranked flyweight contender in the world Kyoji Horiguchi did not last very long while on the market. After meeting with Scott Coker and Bellator MMA at the Bellator 172 show in San Jose on Saturday, it was confirmed just a couple days late...
RIZIN is back! they return with the 2nd round of their 2016 tournament. The show will feature Mirko Filipović, “King Mo”, Rin Nakai, Andy Souwer, Daron Cruickshank, and the return of Heath Herring among others! Check out the full fight card and event stream below. The fight card will be updated w...
Last night during yet another entertaining Rizin Fighting Federation event, it was all but confirmed that on December 29 we will see a third fight between MMA legends Cro Cop and Wanderlei Silva. December 29 is the date and it will be in the quarter-finals of the openweight grand-prix. Though not...
Bellator MMA announcer Sean Grande may have spilled the news regarding Brennan Ward‘s RIZIN opponent a little early, but we’re happy that he did. Ken Hasegawa vs. Brennan Ward at 178 pounds joins RIZIN card Future Bellator world title challenger at welterweight, and former middleweight title chal...
A huge heavyweight match-up has been announced for RIZIN’s 12/29 event, and it comes in the form of Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. James Thompson. The bout was announced by Nobuyuki Sakakibara on Twitter. Tsuyoshi “TK” Kohsaka vs. James Thompson opens 12/29 RIZIN card Kohsaka (26-18-2) has fought a who’s-w...
The Rizin Fighting Federation light heavyweight Grand-Prix continues to fill up with the confirmation that Goran Reljić will represent KSW as well as Teodoras Aukštuolis representing Bushido Lithuania. Goran Reljić and Teodoras Aukštuolis join RIZIN light heavyweight Grand-Prix It was just last...