Rizin Fighting Federation 1: Next Event - April 17 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION)New fight announced

FreeWarMachine wrote:I don't think ONE is a direct competitor since they've carved out a nice scene in SE Asia with a little bit of work in the Chinese market. The big thing is their fighters that RIZIN would want. Probably Aoki and Bibiano. Then it's the same problem as KSW where the will share some fighters, but not their big name champions

I agree with but it would be great if rizin establishes it's own rooster of fighters and champion's  and have those fighters fight in the other orgs that are part of the federation .

westcott123 wrote:

FreeWarMachine wrote:I don't think ONE is a direct competitor since they've carved out a nice scene in SE Asia with a little bit of work in the Chinese market. The big thing is their fighters that RIZIN would want. Probably Aoki and Bibiano. Then it's the same problem as KSW where the will share some fighters, but not their big name champions

I agree with but it would be great if rizin establishes it's own rooster of fighters and champion's  and have those fighters fight in the other orgs that are part of the federation .

Same here. I hope it is a mix of building their roster and fighter sharing.

Dide aoki fought isnt he a one chmpion??? If they weren't trying to help they woulda stopped aoki right?

Unless aoki contract allows him to i mean we haven't seen any of the other champs fighting in other orgs.

fka wrote:Dide aoki fought isnt he a one chmpion??? If they weren't trying to help they woulda stopped aoki right?

Aoki may be free to fight outside the org, if his contract is written that way. ONE may not had much a choice. RIZIN did not list ONE FC as a partner so I assume they are not in the Federation...at least as of now. Hopefully in the future they join up with them.

It sounds like WSOF is a possibility to be a RIZIN partner which would be great. WSOF has some solid fighters.

Vadim Nemkov (4-1)
Gabrielle Garcia  (1-0)
Kaido Höövelson  (1-0)
Teodoras Aukštuolis (8-3)
Kron Gracie (2-0)
Jiří Procházka (16-3)
Rena Kubota (1-0)
Hideo Tokoro (33-28)
DJ.taiki (17-9)

^I love how they keep building these rising east euro fighters. The new Vovchanchyn will arrive.

Glad to see these names as the HW tournament guys as well as Kron showed a lot of potential. Hoovelson and Rena also could potentially go far. Good luck to them.

Rocksoldier84 wrote:Glad to see these names as the HW tournament guys as well as Kron showed a lot of potential. Hoovelson and Rena also could potentially go far. Good luck to them.

 I like HW tourneys but it would be great if  they do other  divisions as well .  light weight would be great they got some great guys in that divsion .

Female wrestler Kanako Murata will make her MMA debut at RIZIN.1 on April 17th.

The 22 year old and 156 cm tall Murata’s many Freestyle Wrestling titles include a gold medal at the 2011 Bucharest Junior Wrestling World Championships (55 kg), a bronze medal at the 2010 Budapest Junior Wrestling World Championships (59 kg) and a bronze medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade (55 kg).

^Nice addition to the female roster

The poster for April event in Nagoya is out!

Kingfedor wrote:
The poster for April event in Nagoya is out!

I loved the first couple of Rizin shows and have high hopes for the future, but there really isn't a lot on that poster to get me excited this time. I was hoping for Fedor or Wanderlei. Even Aoki or Kron Gracie.

Kinosis wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:
The poster for April event in Nagoya is out!

I loved the first couple of Rizin shows and have high hopes for the future, but there really isn't a lot on that poster to get me excited this time.  I was hoping for Fedor or Wanderlei.  Even Aoki or Kron Gracie.

They need to built new star (Jiri Prochazka, Teodoras Aukstuolis , Vadim Nemkov , Anatoly Tokov) and will fight Kron

I'm thinking we get

Kron x Souwer
Tokoro x DJ.taiki
Baruto x JLB
Prochazka x Godbeer
RENA x Stephanie Frausto
Nemkov x Aukstuolis
Gabi Garcia x Amanda Lucas or Kyoko Kimura
Saiga x Abel Cullum
Murata x Some Russian Girl

Then Fedor vs Wanderlei is made official for July

I hope they make the Kron/Souwer fight or Aoki/Kron

They should get good opponents for Jiri, Anatoly, Vadim,...

wekka wrote:I'm thinking we get

Kron x Souwer
Tokoro x DJ.taiki
Baruto x JLB
Prochazka x Godbeer
RENA x Stephanie Frausto
Nemkov x Aukstuolis
Gabi Garcia x Amanda Lucas or Kyoko Kimura
Saiga x Abel Cullum
Murata x Some Russian Girl

Then Fedor vs Wanderlei is made official for July

Hope they make some of these.

4月名古屋大会のポスター出来ました！ #rizinff #rizin1
The poster for April event in Nagoya is out! pic.twitter.com/whNPTMX54u

— NOBUYUKI SAKAKIBARA (@nobu_sakakibara) 1. ožujka 2016.

Interesting!

One thing about jmma they know how to make a poster .

^Oh yeah, they always have the best posters.

Fuck yeah. My favorite were the Dream posters. They were so epic

There is a rumor of a RIZIN announcement at 1AM Eastern / 10 Pacific tonight!

Wanderlei Silva Will face Kazushi Sakuraba in a grappling match

Hisaki Kato Was also announced

Kingfedor wrote:
Wanderlei Silva Will face Kazushi Sakuraba in a grappling match

Hisaki Kato Was also announced

So sakuraba is finally going to get revenge submission grappling is saku's domain wand vs hisaki would of been better though .