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Polyana Viana and Jinh Yu Frey will be competing to put themselves back into the win column on Saturday when they meet at UFC Fight Night 214. The two strawweights both found themselves going into their last bouts on two-fight win streaks but fell short, Viana against Tabatha Ricci and Frey against Vanessa Demopoulos. However,…
Jake “White Kong” Hadley is a 26-year-old flyweight with an 8-1 professional record. He earned a contract with the UFC following a second-round submission win on Dana White’s Contender Series. His skill set and arrogant attitude made him a polarizing prospect. Hadley was humbled in his debut, losing a well-fought unanimous decision in May. Carlos…
RIZIN Fighting Federation’s final event for 2020 is now underway at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The RIZIN 26 fight card consists of 16 fights including a RIZIN Bantamweight Championship featuring Kai Asakura and Kyoji Horiguchi. Before then, Ayaka Hamasaki and Miyuu Yamamoto will battle for the vacant RIZIN Super Atomweight Championship. Read…
RIZIN Fighting Federation lightweight champion Tofiq Musayev (18-3) and former Absolute Championship Berkut (ACB) lightweight titlist Eduard Vartanyan (20-4), two of the world’s top international mixed martial artists, find themselves on opposite sides of a major geopolitical conflict between their native countries, Azerbaijan and Armenia, respectively. The countries, which share a border in their place…
The return of RIZIN is just days away, and the bout order for RIZIN 22 in Yokohama has been revealed. In the main event, as hinted at previously, Yusuke Yachi will face Roberto de Souza in an important lightweight bout to close the night. The night’s co-headliner will see former champion Ayaka Hamasaki face DEEP…
The return of RIZIN Fighting Federation is upon us! The promotion is coming back with a rare summer double-header as RIZIN 22 and RIZIN 23 will take place on back-to-back nights in August – August 9 and August 10 to be exact. The main event will feature two of the promotion’s top lightweights in action….
RIZIN Fighting Federation, much like almost every other sports organization worldwide, has been staying away from hosting live events during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the last time RIZIN held an event was back in late February when they ran RIZIN 21 live from the Hamamatsu Arena. On that night, budding superstar Mikuru Asakura…
Manel Kape (15-4) will look to make his first bantamweight title defense against Hiromasa Ogikubo (20-4-2), as previously reported. And now, we have a target date for the inevitable title clash. Following this morning’s RIZIN 21 fight card in Hamamatsu, RIZIN boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara spoke to on-site media and revealed that the current plan for…
RIZIN 21 just concluded a mere moments ago, and the main event saw fan-favorite superstar Mikuru Asakura (13-1, 1NC) cap-off the night with a second-round knockout win over Mexico’s Daniel Salas. Following the win, Asakura took to the mic to leave the Hamamatsu Arena crowd with the night’s final comments. Mid-interview, however, RIZIN boss Nobuyuki…
The Azerbaijani takeover is well underway after the incredible success of Tofiq Musayev (18-3) in Japan last year. RIZIN has signed another Azerbaijani fighter in the form of Vugar Keramov (14-3), a teammate of Musayev. The signing was announced by Orion Fight Club’s Ruslan Efendiyev on his Instagram. As of late, “Vugi” has been competing…
