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  • RIZIN results from Saitama Super Arena: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jadeep Singh

    Results from today’s Rizin show from the Saitama Super Arena:

    Rena beat Jleana Valentino in a women’s 112 pound fight with a second round flying armbar.

    King Mo Lawal beat Teodoras Aukstuolis in the heavyweight tournament semifinal, dominating him everywhere and winning via decision

    Jiri Prochazka beat Vadim Nemkov in the other heavyweight semifinal.  Very good fight going back-and-forth.  Nemkov had the advantage on the ground.  Both very tired by the end of the 10 minute first round and when it was over, Nemkov just couldn’t get up and didn’t answer the bell for the second round.

    Brennan Ward of Bellator beat Ken Hasegawa with a belly-to-belly suplex and choke.

    Soo Chul Kim beat Maike Linhares in a boring fight via unanimous decision.

    Takeru beat Yang Ming under K-1 rules.  The ref stopped it after a barrage of punches in the second round.

    Gabi Garcia beat Lei’d Tapa via knockout with a backfist that looked most like a reflex action than a planned punch.  Garcia looked tons bigger than Tapa, stunningly so.  Tapa was a lot lighter than her wrestling size and Garcia had the most ridiculous shoulders on a fighter, man or woman, that you’ll see.  Tapa knocked her down first and then both swung wildly with no technique.  The crowd was very into this as a freak show fight.

    Bob Sapp beat Akebono.  This fight was so bad Spike couldn’t air it.

    Baruto beat Peter Aerts via decision.  The 403-pound Baruto threw Aerts around pretty easily.

    Andy Souwer, a kickboxing legend, beat Yuichiro Nagashima with a flurry of hard punches to the head and particularly the body and Nagashima went down.

    Kron Gracie beat Asen Yamamoto via triangle.  He got the triangle, Yamamoto was able to power bomb Gracie but Gracie held on tight for the submission.  Yamamoto was too young and too small.  Gracie’s technique looked great.

    Fedor Emelianenko beat Jadeep Singh via first round ground and pound as Singh tapped from strikes.  Fedor took him down and pretty much beat him up.  Hiroshi Hase made a cameo in the ring with Fedor.

    King Mo beat Jiri Prochazka too win the heavyweight tournament. Prochazka landed a lot of kicks early, but Mo took him down.  Prochazka rushed in after getting up and Mo knocked him out cold with a right hand.

  • Rizin Fighting Federation weigh in results: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jaideep Singh

    Fedor Emelianenko clocked in at 236 pounds.  Gabi Garcia and Lei’d Tapa in the women’s super heavyweight fight were more than 200 pounds.  This will be the second Rizin show of the week, which takes place on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena.

    The show will air on Thursday morning at both 10 a.m. Eastern and Pacific time on Spike.  Not all of the matches will air on Spike, and some matches from the Tuesday event will be on Spike.

    The show is a mix of celebrity fights and names from the past with the attempt to draw mainstream viewers in Japan into MMA with unique personalities.  While Emelianenko is who the show is built around in the U.S., in Japan the most interest revolves around the debut of former sumo star Baruto, the woman’s fight that includes former TNA wrestler Lei’d Tapa, the Bob Sapp vs Akebono fight and the Yamamoto wrestling family vs. Gracie Jiu Jitsu next generation battle with Asen Yamamoto, a teenage champion wrestler whose grandfather was an Olympic wrestler, whose mother was a world champion wrestler and whose uncle is Kid Yamamoto, facing Kron Gracie, the grandson of Helio Gracie and son of Rickson Gracie.

    The show features five pro wrestlers in Akebono, Sapp, Tapa, Yuichiro Nagashima (the famed cross-dressing kickboxer) and Lawal.

    Rena Kubota (112) vs. Jlena Valentino (112)
    King Mo Lawal (214) vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis (216) in the semifinals of
    the heavyweight tournament
    Jiro Prochazka (211.5) vs. Vadim Nemkov (219.5) in the semifinals of the
    heavyweight tournament
    Brennan Ward of Bellator (178) vs. Ken Hasegawa (178.5)
    Takeru (125.5) vs. Yang Ming (125.5) in a K-1 rules match
    Soo Chu Kim (134.5) vs. Maike Linhares (134.5)
    Gabi Garcia (216) vs. Lei’d Tapa (201) in a women’s fight
    Kron Gracie (144.5) vs. Asen Yamamoto (144.5)
    Akebono (419) vs. Bob Sapp (330.5) in a shoot boxing rules match
    Andy Souwer (159) vs. Yuichiro Nagashima (158)
    Peter Aerts (didn’t weigh in) vs. Baruto (403.5)
    Fedor Emelianenko (236) vs. Jaideep Singh (233)
    Finals of heavyweight tournament

  • FREE! WOL 12/29: Raw and RIZIN fallout, news and more!

    Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including tons of thoughts on the RIZIN show with the doom of Kazushi Sakuraba, Raw from Monday, Big Show and whether or not he’s number one in the Royal Rumble, texts, calls and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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  • Rizin Fighting Federation Day 1 results

    Results from the Rizin show held earlier today at the Saitama Super Arena:

    Tsuyoshi Kosaka beat James Thomspon via strikes in the second round

    Kiril Sidelnikov beat Carlos Toyota via strokes in the first round

    Felipe Efrain beat Yuki Motoya via knockout from strikes in the first round -The official result of the fight was a no contest due to Efrain missing weight.

    Hiroyo Kawabe beat Akiyo Nishiura in a K-1 rules mach via third round knockout

    Hinata Watanabe beat Kazuyuki Miyata in a mixed match.  The first round was K-1 rules and Hinata, the kickboxer, destroyed him so there was no second round under MMA rules

    Anatoly Tokov beat A.J. Matthews via knockout in the first round

    Hideo Tokoro beat Kizaemon Saiga via armbar in the first round

    Hiroyuki Takaya beat DJ Taiki via decision

    Heavyweight tournament:

    Reserve fight:  Valentin Moldavsky beat Yuta Uchida with essentially a camel clutch submission

    King Mo Lawal beat Brian McDermott via knockout in 9:10

    Toedoras Aukstuolis beat Bruno Cappelozza via knockout in 3:32

    Vadim Nemkov beat Goran Reljic via knockout in 2:58

    Jiri Prochazka beat Satoshi Ishii via knockout in 1:36

    Shinya Aoki beat Kazushi Sakuraba in a one round slaughter via strikes

    Jerome LeBanner never came to Japan, so Peter Aerts will come out of retirement to face Baruto on Thursday’s show.  Aerts has been Baruto’s trainer to get him ready for his debut making it even more weird.

    The show was said to be entertaining except the main event was sad.  The heavyweight tournament was good although from a Japanese perspective, Ishii going down so quickly wasn’t good news.

  • Rematch of most-watched fight of modern times signed for New Year’s Eve

    A rematch of the most watched fight in Japan of modern times was the latest bout confirmed for the debut of the Rizin promotion at the end of the year.

    Bob Sapp vs. Akebono, a battle between giants who have not fared well as fighters, was announced today by Nobuhiko Takada during prime time network programming on the Fuji television network.  Fuji TV will be airing the Rizin debut on 12/31.  It will also be airing on Spike in the U.S.

    On December 31, 2003, Sapp vs. Akebono in a kickboxing match drew 54 million television viewers on a night with ridiculous television competition. It was Akebono’s first fight, after being one of the biggest stars in the history of sumo.  Sapp was all over television commercials and the biggest television draw among the fighters at the time.

    The two have never rematched even though both have had log tenures since that time as pro wrestlers in Japan.  They were on opposite sides in an eight-man tag team match at the January 4, 2013 Tokyo Dome show.

    Akebono announced on 11/1 that he was leaving All Japan Pro Wrestling, after losing the Triple Crown to Jun Akiyama.  It was widely expected he would be on the debut of the Rizin group.  He hasn’t fought in nine years.  Sapp, who retired as a fighter in 2013, made for the logical opponent.

    Inside MMA had reported this match taking place a few weeks ago, but today was the official announcement.

  • F4D 11/9: Filthy Tom on UFC and Bellator, WWE Title tournament, win WWE 2K16, more!

    Filthy Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Tom Lawlor is back today with a shocking amount of stuff to talk about, especially for this show! We’ve got the WWE Title Tournament, Tom’s own Filthy Invitational 2015 tourney for a copy of WWE 2K15, the Smackdown finish and whether it was the worst ever, previews of Retro Raw and Retro Nitro this week, some comedy regarding the RUMBLR app, Bellator and UFC notes for last weekend and this weekend, Shamrock vs. Gracie, RIZIN fights, fun moves Tom has successfully applied to people and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

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  • Fedor to face pro wrestler Tsuyoshi Kosaka on New Year’s Eve

    In a night filled with trips back in time, Inside MMA reported tonight that Fedor Emelianenko’s opponent for the Rizin New Year’s Eve show would be Tsuyoshi Kosaka, a 45-year-old retired pro wrestler from Japan.  

    After the report aired, Jerry Millen, who works with Emelianenko, denied that Kosaka was the opponent.  Observer sources in Japan say that Emelianenko’s opponent has not been decided and there were several different people under consdieration, Kosaka being one of them.

    Kosaka who has a strong judo background, was one of the major stars with the RINGS promotion in the 90, where he had some classic pro wrestling matches, and also headlined a Tokyo Dome show for New Japan Pro Wrestling.

    He also competed as a regular in Pride, and went to the semifinals of an eight man UFC heavyweight title tournament after Randy Couture vacated the title, before losing a classic fight with Bas Rutten.

    Kosaka won a controversial match over Emelianenko on December 22, 2000, in RINGS, the first loss of Emelianenko’s career.  It was in a tournament, and ended in 17 seconds when Emelianenko was too badly cut to continue from an illegal elbow.  The match would have been ruled a no contest normally, but being part of a tournament, they declared Kosaka the winner since Emelianenko wouldn’t be allowed to continue in the tournament.  Kosaka then lost in the next round via decision to Randy Couture.

    It was one of the great “What if’s” in history, since, had Emelianenko not been cut and advanced, he and Couture would have faced in 2001. Fedor would eventually avenge the loss to Kosaka in a fight on April 3, 2005, in Pride, saw Emelianenko win via doctor’s stoppage at the end of the first round. Kosaka had been announced as coming out of retirement for the show last week.

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    Dave and Bryan have a brand new Wrestling Observer Radio talking this story right now for subscribers along with the Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock 3 announcement and more!