Rizin Fighting Federation

Rizin Fighting Federation
Private
Industry Mixed martial arts promotion
Founded September 2015 (2015-09)
Founder Nobuyuki Sakakibara
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people
 Nobuyuki Sakakibara, Nobuhiko Takada
Website www.rizinff.com/en/

Rizin Fighting Federation MMA (Rizin FF) is a Japanese regional mixed martial arts organization created in 2015 by the former Pride Fighting Championship president Nobuyuki Sakakibara.[1][2]

Rizin FF will be broadcast in the North America by Spike TV which is already the broadcaster of Bellator MMA. Other official partnering broadcasters will be SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Fuji Television, Fox Sports Brazil and Match TV.[3]

The first 2 events Rizin FF SARABA (Farewell) Fiesta and Rizin FF IZA (Takeoff) Saltation took place on December 29 and December 31, 2015. Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal became the first Rizin tournament Champion by defeating Brett McDermott, Teodoras Aukstuolis, and Jiri Prochazka in the two day event.

List of Rizin FF events

# Event Date Venue Location Attendance
003 Rizin. 1 Apr 17, 2016 Nippon Gaishi Hall Nagoya, Japan [4]
002 Rizin Fighting World Grand-Prix 2015: Iza no Mai Dec 31, 2015 Saitama Super Arena Saitama, Japan [5]
001 Rizin Fighting World Grand-Prix 2015: Saraba no Utage Dec 29, 2015 Saitama Super Arena Saitama, Japan [6]

Notable fighters

Notes:
1: Bellator MMA
2: Replaced Jérôme Le Banner

Affiliated organizations

Rizin FF is affiliated with the following organizations:[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Nobuyuki Sakakibara discusses Rizin FF plans for 2016, Fedor Emelianenko’s opponent, drug testing and more". MMA Fighting. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  2. ↑ "Former Pride FC boss: Fedor's opponent will mean something for future of MMA". Bloody Elbow. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  3. ↑ "Event Summary Rizen Fighting Federation". rizinff.com. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  4. ↑ "Rizin FF - Rizin 1". Sherdog.
  5. ↑ "Rizin FF - Iza no Mai". Sherdog.
  6. ↑ "Rizin FF - Saraba no Utake". Sherdog.
  7. ↑ "RIZIN Fighting Federation". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.

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