Rizin FF

Something is set to happen this weekend that hasn't happened in more than a decade: competing at RIZIN 44 against Japanese heavyweight Tsuyoshi Sudario, Todd Duffee is fighting twice in a calendar year. After years of struggles with injury and...

Japan's RIZIN Fighting Federation on Friday announced the addition of a number of new bouts to its October card in Fukuoka. Featuring the promotion's first tournament featuring female fighters, the World Grand Prix 2017 Autumn card will also feature...

Japan's RIZIN FF kicked off 2019 with RIZIN 15, which crowned Jiří Procházka as light heavyweight champ, and saw Kyoji Horiguchi continue to excel outside the UFC. RIZIN 15 went down over the weekend (Sunday, to be exact) in Yokohama,...

Japan's RIZIN Fighting Federation returns to action Saturday (bright and early for Western MMA fans) with their first card of the year, RIZIN 21. Mikuru Asakura, brother of promotional darling Kai Asakura, features in the main event, while heavyweight...

RIZIN 33, the final card of the year for the Japanese fighting outfit, continues to grow. Promotion officials announced additional bouts for the event on Thursday, and revealed the opponent for lightweight champ Roberto Satoshi Souza, who had previously been...

Former Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Juan Archuleta has been granted leave to hunt for a title in Japanese promotion RIZIN. Archuleta will face UFC and RIZIN veteran Naoki Inoue at RIZIN 42 on May 6, 2023, promotion officials announced Monday. "The...

RIZIN FF is back to close out 2017 with the first of two year-end cards airing early Friday morning for those of us in the West! Once again, RIZIN will hold two New Year's Eve events spaced over two days...

Kyoji Horiguchi and Takeya Mizugaki are among the names announced for August's RIZIN 18 card. The first batch of fights for August's RIZIN 18 were announced Monday by Japan's RIZIN Fighting Federation. And the promotion is wasting no time getting...

RIZIN's penultimate card of 2020 took place Saturday, with RIZIN 25 going down in Osaka, Japan. Atop the card, the crowning of the promotion's inaugural featherweight title in a fight between rising star Mikuru Asakura, and Shooto vet Yutaka...

RIZIN 36 will head to the island of Okinawa in Japan this July. In a press release distributed on Friday, RIZIN Fighting Federation officials announced their next event, the promotion's seventh of 2022. The show will take place on July...