Rizin FF

RIZIN Fighting Federation returned to action on Saturday, heading to the southern Honshu city of Osaka for RIZIN 25. Atop the card, a battle for the promotion's inaugural featherweight title. That would see Mikuru Asakura, one of the promotion's...

Japan's RIZIN Fighting Federation was back in action Sunday, with young star Tenshin Nasukawa (37-0 Kickboxing, 4-0 MMA) once against topping the bill. The agile and exhilarating kickboxer was getting one of the toughest tests of his undefeated career...

PRIDE never die. Well, PRIDE rules never die, anyway. At least not at RIZIN 23, where budding star Kai Asakura soccer kicked his way to gold. Fighting for the title vacated by Manel Kape after he jumped ship to the...

RIZIN Fighting Federation returned to action Sunday, with RIZIN 22, the first of two back-to-back cards, going down in Yokohama, Japan. Among the big winners on the night, Roberto de Souza, a danger on the mat thanks to his BJJ...

RIZIN 21 didn't have the star power of some past RIZIN FF events. No Tenshin. No Kyoji Horiguchi. No Fedor. But it did offer something of a spirited affair, one that moved at a better clip compared to some...

Japan's RIZIN Fighting Federation hosted its first card of 2020 with RIZIN 21 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka on Saturday night. The Japanese promotion was without some of its biggest stars, including Tenshin Nasukawa and Kyoji Horiguchi, but sitting atop the...

New Year's Eve brought with it the annual year-end show from RIZIN FF, and this year's entry, RIZIN 20, was a big one. RIZIN Fighting Federation rang in the New Year in the traditional way, with a New Year's Eve...

Bellator Japan was a bit of a tricky one to schedule. Due to the 14-hour time difference between Japan and the East Coast in North America, the event lacked any preliminary card fights. Instead, Bellator went the post-lim route,...

RIZIN Fighting Federation returned on Friday, October 12, 2019 for RIZIN 19: Lightweight Grand Prix First Round. Check out the results below. RIZIN 19: Lightweight Grand Prix First Round was live from the Edion Arena in Osaka, Japan on Saturday. In...

RIZIN 18: Horiguchi vs. Asakura was live on Sunday, August 18, 2019 from Nagoya, Japan. The results are below. RIZIN 18: Horiguchi vs. Asakura live from the Dolphins Arena in Nagoya, Japan. The event was broadcast live on FITE TV.  In...