Rizin Rizin Landmark 11 Sapporo - June 14th
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We are going to find out about Kimura in earnest. This is an enormous leap in competition for a guy who has looked unstoppable. Japan is always crazy AF lol. Love it
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I wonder why they didn’t add Polo King to the GP. Are they actually going to build him along slowly?
The guy looked green as fuck his last fight … he should not be in a gp
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Polo is very raw, most of the field has a ton more experience. I still believe he's got potential, but he has a lot to tighten up. Definitely an athlete, just needs the skills and experience to go along with it.
Soldatkin is probably going to eat, since he doesn't have to worry so much about PEDs and down strikes.
Soldatkin is probably going to eat, since he doesn't have to worry so much about PEDs and down strikes.
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I’ll give RIZIN credit for booking MACHI against a strawweight this time, instead of an atomweight, but it’s the same strawweight who go taken down and submitted by microweight (97lbs) champ Saori Oshima.
I feel bad for SALT. Only two times she’ll ever fight at home in Sapporo, and they’ll be losses
I feel bad for SALT. Only two times she’ll ever fight at home in Sapporo, and they’ll be losses
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Agreed, just surprised they didn’t with JMMA habit of throwing prospects into fights they’re not ready for yet.
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Karimian not fighting a LW in a boxing rules match? And a Kaiju Killer, at that? Lfg
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Bading has only had one fight, a decision win. Raiki is 16-15. While they generally do this kind of thing with Japanese talent they want to push, it smells of a young fighter that they know has potential, in Bading, who is 25 years old, and they wanna see what he is made of.
It really is curious. It could be a curveball being thrown, as they hired Craven to push the company into international markets and lure international talent, and we've all assumed they'd try to push into the usual places. Is it possible that maybe they're trying to push into China? It honestly would make a lot of sense, as it seems it would be much easier to make a name in the enormous Chinese market than the Western market, due to the massive time zone difference. Also not long after their card in South Korea.
As far as I know, this will be the first Chinese fighter in RIZIN.
That would be a big push to find some investment from China … road fc had that for a while, + fighters like Aorigele and some other fighters from the country … after China stopped the $ flow, road has not been the same
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I suppose that if RIZIN ventured down that same path, and the well ran dry, we'd be left with the RIZIN we'd been accustomed to for the past several years. I think Craven made a lot of valuable contacts on the world scene, during his time with NJPW. NJPW is still thriving on the world scene, a few years after Craven left, and just held their own event in Shanghai not long ago. It's going to be interesting over the next few years, and I presume we will be seeing more of these rando fighters popping up, as seeds are planted for down the road.
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Rizin should spread their promotion to whole Asia.
