Newly crowned RIZIN Fighting Federation featherweight champion Chihiro Suzuki will make the first defense of his title against Masanori Kanehara next May. The fight, announced during Sunday's RIZIN 45 broadcast, will take place at RIZIN 47. No other fights have...

Closing out 2023 for the MMA world, RIZIN 45 went down on New Year's Eve (local time in Japan) at the Saitama Super Arena. The promotion's annual New Year's Eve super-show was headlined by a flyweight title fight, as Kyoji...

Juan Archuleta has been stripped of his bantamweight championship after missing weight ahead of RIZIN 45. RIZIN officials announced the news following Saturday's official weigh-in. Archuleta missed the mark by nearly six pounds (63.80kg), leaving only opponent Kai Asakura eligible...

39 and feeling fine is one way to describe flyweight John Dodson these days. The former two-time UFC title challenger sits on a three-fight win streak in MMA as he heads into RIZIN 45, where he's been paired up with...

Miyuu Yamamoto has had a good long while to wrap her head around her upcoming retirement from MMA, having announced her final fight back in March. That fight finally arrives at RIZIN 45 on New Year's Eve, where the 49-year...

RIZIN Fighting Federation's annual New Year's Eve show, RIZIN 45, has had multiple fights announced, including the retirement bout for Miyuu Yamamoto. Yamamoto, 49, previously fought for the promotion's super atomweight title, coming up short against Ayaka Hamasaki in 2020....

RIZIN Fighting Federation made a historic trip outside Japan on Saturday, November 4, 2023 to head to Azerbaijan for RIZIN Landmark 7. The main event of the promotion's monumental first show in the country featured Azerbaijan's own Vugar Karamov, the...

Rizin Bantamweight champion Juan Archuleta is set to make his first title defense come New Year’s Eve, where he’ll met by Kai Asakura at Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan. This isn’t the first time “The Spaniard” has been matched...

With his win at Super RIZIN 2 back in July, Juan Archuleta not only captured the promotion's bantamweight crown but made a little more history in the process. That history? Becoming just the second American champ in a major Japanese...

RIZIN Fighting Federation was back in action for the second week in a row on Sunday, touching down in Nagoya, Japan for RIZIN Landmark 6. Headlined by a pair of veterans in Hideo Tokoro and Alan Yamaniha competing at bantamweight,...