RIZIN 11 - Sataima - July 29 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION)

Rizin 11
July 29, 2018
Sataima Super Arena
Sataima, Japan

Main Card:
Kanna Asakura (12-2)        vs.               (6-1) Rena Kubota  
Main Event | Women's Super Atomweight | 108 lbs (49 kg)

Kyoji Horiguchi (24-2)       vs.      (17-3) Hiromasa Ogikubo 
Co-Main Event | Bantamweight | 135 lbs (60 kg)

Bruno Cappelozza (20-3)   vs.             (10-4) Jiří Procházka   
Main Card | Light Heavyweight | 205 lbs (93 kg)

Takanori Gomi (35-15)       vs.        (32-20) Melvin Guillard   
Main Card | Catchweight | 161 lbs (73 kg)

Satoru Kitaoka (41-16)      vs.         (22-12) Diego Brandão   
Main Card | Lightweight | 155 lbs (70 kg)

Shoma Shibisai (4-1)          vs.  (1-0) Unurjargal Boldpurev   
Main Card | Openweight

Rin Nakai (20-2)                 vs.    (16-5) Shizuka Sugiyama   
Main Card | Women's Flyweight | 125 lbs (57 kg)

Saori Ishioka (15-11)         vs.        (1-3) Miyuu Yamamoto   
Main Card | Women's Super Atomweight | 108 lbs (49 kg)

Tadaaki Yamamoto (15-10) vs.(5-1) Topnoi Thanongsaklek   
Main Card | Catchweight | 130 lbs (59 kg)

Daron Cruickshank (20-10)  vs.               (9-5) Tom Santos   
Main Card | Lightweight | 155 lbs (70 kg)

Already can't wait for Rizin to return. I love staying up watching the event live throughout the night. They have events in July, August, and September so soon they have an event each month.

This is like the pride days dse didn't do too many pride shows throughout the years when they did they made it count and it made you look forward to it. Though I still do hope they do more events 6-8 a year. Now if when Rizin does start crowning weight class champions who would be the favorites to hold the belts?
A few kyoji horiguchi, bantam weight
yuske yachi, light weight
jiri prochazka, middle weight (it flows better than light heavyweight)
ayaka Hamasaki, atom weight

westcott123 wrote:This is like the pride days dse didn't do too many pride shows throughout the years when they did they made it count and it made you look forward to it. Though I still do hope they do  more events 6-8  a year. Now if when Rizin does start crowning weight class champions who would be the favorites to hold the belts?
A few kyoji horiguchi, bantam weight
yuske yachi, light weight
jiri prochazka, middle weight (it flows better than light heavyweight)
ayaka Hamasaki, atom weight

Yup, I like your list: Koyji (BW), Yachi (LW), Jiri (LHW). Now they need a solid HW division. It kind of sucks they lost Amir.

https://mmajunkie.com/2018/05/rizin-ff-11-gets-kyoji-horiguchi-vs-hiromasa-ogikubo-2-mirko-cro-cop

Mirko is on the July card no opponent has been named yet

As for the division I would still say lhw should be called mw either way.

http://mmasucka.com/2018/05/15/kyoji-horiguchi-vs-hiromasa-ogikubo-ii-mirko-cro-cop-amongst-first-rizin-11-additions/
Link to another site

westcott123 wrote:https://mmajunkie.com/2018/05/rizin-ff-11-gets-kyoji-horiguchi-vs-hiromasa-ogikubo-2-mirko-cro-cop

Mirko is on the July card no opponent has been named yet

As for the division I would still say lhw should be called mw either way.

http://mmasucka.com/2018/05/15/kyoji-horiguchi-vs-hiromasa-ogikubo-ii-mirko-cro-cop-amongst-first-rizin-11-additions/
Link to another site

That is great to see Mirko will be on it. I will be watching live again. I love watching JMMA with an all nighter.

After a successful kickoff into the year of 2018, RIZIN Fighting Federation will be holding their second
event, also the first event of 3 back to back events. RIZIN. 11 on July 29th, RIZIN. 12 on August 12th and
RIZIN. 13 on September 30th
.

TOKYO – On May 16th, RIZIN FF announced their first fight for their upcoming summer event. The
rematch between Kyoji Horiguchi and Hiromasa Ogikubo will take place during RIZIN.11 on July 29th
2018 at the Saitama Super Arena. The fight between World Champion and
RIZIN Bantamweight GP king Kyoji Horiguchi (24-2) will be facing Hiromasa Ogikubo (17-3-2) in a 60kg
bout scheduled under the RIZIN rules 10 minute x 5 minute round with elbow strikes above the neck.
Horiguchi is currently on a 9 fight winning streak, freshly coming off of a 9 second KO win against the
very game Ian McCall. The ATT product finished all 4 opponents to win the Bantamweight GP in 2017,
and has a perfect 6-0 record ever since joining the RIZIN roster. Hiromasa Ogikubo has made his name
known to the western audience after being selected as the TUF 24 cast member. “Hiro” made it to the
finals on the US based reality show, but lost a very close decision to the season winner Tim Elliot. The
Chiba native is currently riding a 7 fight winning streak (excluding the TUF exhibition bouts) and hasn’t
lost since March 16th, 2013 where he lost his Shooto world title to his upcoming opponent Kyoji
Horiguchi.

Hiromasa Ogikubo was the reigning Shooto Feather weight (Current Bantamweight) Champion when
Kyoji Horiguchi was still a hot prospect. They fought for the world title on March 16, 2018. Horiguchi
ended the fight by submitting the superior grappler in 1:35 of round 2. After capturing the prestigious
title, Horiguchi had one fight in VTJ and signed with the UFC. Ogikubo on the other hand, moved down
to Flyweight and won the VTJ Flyweight tournament by defeating Takeshi Kasugai (14-2-1), Kana Hyatt
(13-12) and Czar Sklavos (10-3). The Paraestra Matsudo product later became the 2nd fighter to win
Shooto world titles in 2 divisions after submitting Masaaki Sugawara (18-0) to win the Shooto
Bantamweight (Current Flyweight) title, which earned him a spot on The Ultimate Fighter season 24
show where he made his name known to the global audience. Despite being a runner up, “Hiro” did not
receive a UFC contract and has been eagerly waiting for his time to face top competition.

Horiguchi quotes
“I have been cheering for him when he was on the TUF show. We would eventually be rivals, but when
you are competing in a US ran company, it’s hard not to root for fighters from the same country. It’s like
we are in it together.”

“Fighting an MMA fight in July before I make my kickboxing debut in September won’t affect my training
at all. I train all aspects of the fight for MMA fights, kickboxing is included.”
“I think rematches are good. I knew that I would be facing some of the fighters I have beat, when I
decided to come back to Japan, but I think rematches are good. We get to face each other and see how
we have developed as a fighter.”

Ogikubo quotes
“I have never forgotten about that moment I lost to Horiguchi for the past 5 years. Everything I have
done in the past is to avenge my loss against him.”
“Every time Horiguchi fights I hope for his loss. Just an honest opinion.”
“Horiguchi always fights with a calm mentality and never changes his facial expression. I want to make
him panic and expose his frantic face to the world before I make him tap.”
“As a fighter growing up watching PRIDE and the golden era of Japanese MMA, I am very happy to be
able to take part in RIZIN, and help make Japanese MMA great once again.”
“I have grown tremendously in the past 5 years, have put plenty of experience under my belt. I couldn’t
have asked for a greater opportunity to fight in such a big platform.”

Confirmed fights
Kyoji Horiguchi vs Hiromasa Ogikubo
Mirko Crocop vs TBD
Tenshin Nasukawa vs TBD

Doors open at 1:30PM with Opening Ceremony at3:00PM on Sunday July 29th at the Saitama Super
Arena. International tickets can be purchased at www.stubhub.com.

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http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/in-two-years-rizin-ff-will-be-the-premier-mma-organisation.3480689/

What are people view on this? Is it possible? Will it happen or is this grasping straws?

westcott123 wrote:http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/in-two-years-rizin-ff-will-be-the-premier-mma-organisation.3480689/

What are people view on this? Is it possible? Will it happen or is this grasping straws?

I hope so and I hope we have at least two major orgs. again, possibly with Bellator as a third. I have really been enjoying Bellator lately. I've always been a fan but now more than ever.

Same here.

A Rizin Open Weight Grand Prix would take them to the next level. I would like to see an opening round that looks something like this..

Vitaly Minakov vs Matt Mitrione
Roy Nelson vs Karol Bedorf
Fedor Emelianenko vs Pudzilla
Rampage vs Sergei Kharitonov
Brandon Vera vs Cro Cop
Philip De Fries vs Ryan Bader
Frank Mir vs Jiri Prochazka
Aleks Emelianenko vs Chael Sonnen

Aleks vs Fedor will not happen but I want to see at least one of them in the GP.

God of Thunder wrote:A Rizin Open Weight Grand Prix would take them to the next level. I would like to see an opening round that looks something like this..

Vitaly Minakov vs Matt Mitrione
Roy Nelson vs Karol Bedorf
Fedor Emelianenko vs Pudzilla
Rampage vs Sergei Kharitonov
Brandon Vera vs Cro Cop
Philip De Fries vs Ryan Bader
Frank Mir vs Jiri Prochazka
Aleks Emelianenko vs Chael Sonnen

Aleks vs Fedor will not happen but I want to see at least one of them in the GP.

That would be an amazing GP. That would definitely be the next level.

I would love to see that with Rizin it would be great for them if they can also break into the Chinese market as well that would be a great market for them . I digress Rizin in the west will be only fringe at best it won't be as big in the west as say the ufc and Bellator those soccer kicks and stomps would turn the average fan off even some say pride was "fake" irony there. In Asia I believe Rizin can become a major player in that part of the world.

westcott123 wrote:I would love to see that with Rizin it would be great for them if they can also break into the Chinese market as well that would be a great market for them . I digress Rizin in the west will be only fringe at best it won't be as big in the west as say the ufc and Bellator those soccer kicks and stomps would turn the average fan off even some say pride was "fake"  irony there. In Asia I believe Rizin can become a major player in that part of the world.

Yeah, I prefer to see Rizin focus on Asia as well. China would be good, I agree. That way they can use their rules wherever they go.

^^ I'm in agreement that way they can tell people who complain about the Rizin ff rules to fuck off

That is the great thing about Rizin hell pride fc is that they don't need to obey the unified rules of the west.

westcott123 wrote:^^ I'm in agreement that way they can tell people who complain about the Rizin ff rules to fuck off

Yeah, that sounds good to me.

westcott123 wrote:That is the great thing about Rizin hell pride fc is that they don't need to obey the unified rules of the west.

Exactly, it makes them unique allowing all rules. Rizin even allows elbows for most bouts. The 10 minute first round is coming back for the next event too.

It definitely has the best rule set in mma really it also has the most even rule set in the west it is more wrestling and athletic oriented in pride it was more martial arts Fighting not saying you don't get martial artist in the west and no athletic or wrestling type fighters in Asia but 9/10 the cases are usually true.

Like they say 'ufc has the athletes pride fc has the fighters "

westcott123 wrote:Like they say 'ufc has the athletes pride fc has the fighters "  

I could agree with that.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1817875968273522&id=1177004999027292
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/51145-rizin-10

Looks like the rena asakura rematch is happening jiri prochazka is on the card and horiguchi is the main event.

I got two things one just think in a 12 - 14 month period kyoji has almost had as much fights in rizin as he had in the ufc 8 in the ufc 7 in Rizin ff.

Two on the rena asakura rematch I still think rena should of had another fight or two.

westcott123 wrote:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1817875968273522&id=1177004999027292
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/51145-rizin-10

Looks like the rena asakura rematch is happening jiri prochazka is on the card and horiguchi is the main event.

I got two things one just think in a 12 - 14 month period kyoji has almost had as much fights in rizin as he had in the ufc 8 in the ufc 7 in Rizin ff.

Two on the rena asakura rematch I still think rena should of had another fight or two.

Real solid line-up already. They were also going to have Cro Cop on but he got injured.

Apparently it was going to be jiri prochazka vs mirko filpovic.

westcott123 wrote:Apparently it was going to be jiri prochazka vs mirko filpovic.

Shame, that could've been a great fight. Good to see Prochazka back anyway.