The final chapter in the career and life of Shohei Baba took place on the biggest show he ever main evented and the biggest show he ever promoted–some three months after his death.
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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.