Rizin FF

In a bit of quirky matchmaking, Japan's Kyoji Horiguchi, RIZIN's reigning bantamweight champion, represented Bellator during Saturday's Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN cross-promotion. Make that former bantamweight champ — ahead of the fight, Horiguchi vacated his title, opting to focus...

Going to bed late? Staying up early? For those of us in the west, RIZIN 12 was a great way to either finish the night, or start the morning, as the case may be, featuring names like Yusuke Yachi,...

RIZIN FF 17: Yachi vs. Asakura was live just outside Tokyo, Japan on July 28, 2019. The live results are below. RIZIN FF 17: Yachi vs. Asakura, live from the Saitama Super Arena just outside Tokyo, Japan went down Sunday....

RIZIN FF returned to action on Sunday in Fukuoka, Japan, offering up their Autumn 2017 card. The second half of their World Grand Prix 2017 Opening Round, featuring a women's atomweight and man's bantamweight tournament, there was plenty of...

The final major MMA event of 2021 arrived on Friday, with RIZIN 33 marking the promotion's annual New Year's Eve show. While previous years saw major names from around the globe competing, pandemic-related travel restrictions in Japan meant that the...

RIZIN Fighting Federation hosted its first event of 2020 on Sunday. Going down in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, the RIZIN 27 card was topped by a title fight rematch between super atomweight champ Ayaka Hamasaki and Kanna Asakura. The pair had...

RIZIN Fighting Federation was back in action Sunday, with an event that could only possibly have been put together in Japan. The first of two events to feature the opening round of the bantamweight grand prix, RIZIN 28 also saw...

RIZIN Landmark 9 took place on Saturday, March 23, 2024 in Kobe, Japan, with a couple of familiar faces topping the card in a lightweight affair. That main event saw lightweight champ Roberto "Satoshi" de Souza return, in a non-title...

Former Invicta FC atomweight champion Ayaka Hamasaki continued to find success in her native Japan at RIZIN 27. Hamasaki, in her second reign as RIZIN Fighting Federation's super atomweight champ, topped Sunday's RIZIN 27 card in Nagoya, Japan, securing her...

RIZIN Landmark Vol. 3 took place on May 5, 2022 at an undisclosed location in Japan, with a standout name in the card's main event. While featuring just a handful of fights, as with previous Landmark cards (they like keep...