Current Rizin 1 Card Looks Pretty Entertaining

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Grappling Tag Team Match: Wanderlei Silva and Fighter TBA vs. Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro
155 lbs: Daron Cruickshank vs. Shinji Sasaki
265 lbs: Chris Barnett vs. Kirill Sidelnikov
180 lbs. (Catch Weight): Hisaki Kato vs. Yuta Watanabe
265 lbs: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Jiri Prochazka
125 lbs: Allan Nascimento vs. Yuki Motoya
Open Weight: Gabi Garcia vs. Anna Malyukova
216 lbs (Catch Weight): Jaideep Singh vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis
205 lbs: Vadim Nemkov vs. Karl Albrektsson

This looks like it is going to feature a lot of fun fights/brutal finishes.
 
melvinj0 said:
Grappling Tag Team Match: Wanderlei Silva and Fighter TBA vs. Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro
155 lbs: Daron Cruickshank vs. Shinji Sasaki
265 lbs: Chris Barnett vs. Kirill Sidelnikov
180 lbs. (Catch Weight): Hisaki Kato vs. Yuta Watanabe
265 lbs: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Jiri Prochazka
125 lbs: Allan Nascimento vs. Yuki Motoya
Open Weight: Gabi Garcia vs. Anna Malyukova
216 lbs (Catch Weight): Jaideep Singh vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis
205 lbs: Vadim Nemkov vs. Karl Albrektsson

This looks like it is going to feature a lot of fun fights/brutal finishes.
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Haven't heard of a lot of these. Cruickshank is always exciting. Barnett v. Sidelnikov is huge. IDK if Kiril has anything for Barnett but cool fight. The rest is more or less meh but will watch. Singh v. Aukstuolis could be interesting.
 
LHWBelt said:
Haven't heard of a lot of these. Cruickshank is always exciting. Barnett v. Sidelnikov is huge. IDK if Kiril has anything for Barnett but cool fight. The rest is more or less meh but will watch. Singh v. Aukstuolis could be interesting.
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Nemkov Vs Albrektsson is a pretty legit fight as well, I'm convinced Nemkov would have won the tourny had he came in with better conditioning.
 
Will definitely watch. Great to see Teodoras, Nemkov, and Motoya back. Very interested in seeing Daron. Anybody know anything about his opponent?
 
There's also a few kickboxing bouts that were announced, Tetsuya Yamato (former or current K-1 Max, WBC, Lion Fight, and NJKF champ) being the most notable of the kickboxers.

I am completely fine with this being the caliber of their non-NYE events until they get established.
chunglii said:
Will definitely watch. Great to see Teodoras, Nemkov, and Motoya back. Very interested in seeing Daron. Anybody know anything about his opponent?
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Former Shooto Pacific Rim champ, Shooto Rookie Tournament runner up in 2006, and very close with Megumi Fujii (she usually corners him). He's primarily a grappler but has been in some striking battles lately, a lot of fun to watch. Has a pretty cool walkout too.
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Glad to see they picked Barnett up but I won't be pretty sure about the 265 limit, isn't no limit HW instead? I hope he gets the W and they can make Barnett vs Baruto next
 
I DONT USE THIS TERM LIGHTLY BUT THIS CARD IS HIGHLY STAKED
 
I seriously doubt Barnett's fight is gonna be a 265 btw, but that's what MMAmania has it listed as.
 
This card will have 3 weight class mismatches which are virtually identical

Ken Masters (LHW) vs Singh (HW)
Baby Fedor (LHW/HW) vs Barnett (SHW)
Jiri (LHW) vsd Fujita (HW)


All of the lighter fighters ar more skilled and faster while all of the heavier fighters are stronger and bigger

Also all the lighter fighters are younger

Is this supposed to be the theme for this event ???
 
It's just average really. I wouldn't call it great and wouldn't call it bad either. Nothing that blows my socks off. Not something I think people are going to show up for like the last Rizin.
 
Asurah said:
There's also a few kickboxing bouts that were announced, Tetsuya Yamato (former or current K-1 Max, WBC, Lion Fight, and NJKF champ) being the most notable of the kickboxers.

I am completely fine with this being the caliber of their non-NYE events until they get established.

Former Shooto Pacific Rim champ, Shooto Rookie Tournament runner up in 2006, and very close with Megumi Fujii (she usually corners him). He's primarily a grappler but has been in some striking battles lately, a lot of fun to watch. Has a pretty cool walkout too.
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Yamato is neither former nor current K-1 max champion...he won K-1 Japan tourney back in 2010.
 
ichibang said:
Yamato is neither former nor current K-1 max champion...he won K-1 Japan tourney back in 2010.
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It was a K-1 Max Japan tourney though, right? I should've clarified better, or I could be remembering things incorrectly
 
I honestly like all the fights. Nothing I'm dying to see, but they're all good fights.

melvinj0 said:
I seriously doubt Barnett's fight is gonna be a 265 btw, but that's what MMAmania has it listed as.
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Kiril's last fight for Rizin was at open-weight and he weighed in at 259. They might as well make it open-weight again.

vᴀᴀʀ. said:
Will this be streamed on the Match site like the NYE event?
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No one knows yet. Match TV did post an article about Gabi vs. Anna today, and there's several other Russians on the card so maybe?
 
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