"Freak Show" Rizin Fight Federation NYE Thread: (Fedor Returns, Bob Sapp/Akebono, & More F#ckery)

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It's a two day event, but only the card on the 31st is going to be televised in the U.S. on Spike. All of the major fights from the 29th card are supposed to be shown via highlights on NYE.

The card starts at 10 am et/9 am ct on Thursday

On Dec. 29 and 31, Japanese upstart promotion Rizin Fighting Federation will hold their inaugural shows at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Tokyo. The new Year's Eve line-up features the return of former Pride FC heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko in the main event.

On Tuesday, Rizin's debut show will feature the opening round of the World Grand Prix tournament, as well as a catchweight bout between Kazushi Sakuraba and Shinya Aoki. Thursday's show will feature the tournament final and a main event between Fedor and Jaideep Singh.



Check out the line-ups for the two-day show below:

Dec. 29 show (1:00am ET start time)
Grand Prix Round 1
Mohammad Lawal vs. Brett McDermott
Bruno Cappelozza vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis
Satoshi Ishii vs. Jiri Prochazka
Goran Reljic vs. Vadim Nemkov
Valentin Moldavsky vs. Yuta Uchida (Reserve fight)

Single Matches:
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Shinya Aoki
A.J. Mathhews vs. Anatoly Tokov
James Thompson vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Hiroyuki Takaya vs. DJ Taiki
Kirill Sidelnikov vs. Carlos Toyota

Mixed Rules
Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Hinata Watanabe
Yuki Motoya vs. Felipe Efrain

K-1 Rules
Akiyo Nishiura vs. Hiroya Kawabe

Dec. 31 show (1am ET start time)
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jaideep Singh
TBD vs. TBD [Grand Prix Tournament Final]
Brennan Ward vs. Ken Hasegawa
Tournament Semi-final x 2

K-1 Rules
Yang Ming vs. Takeru
Kaido Höövelson vs. Jerome Le Banner

Shoot Boxing Rules
Bob Sapp vs. Akebono
Kron Gracie vs Asen Yamamoto
Gabi Garcia vs. Lei'd Tapa
RENA vs. Jleana Valentino
Yuichiro Nagashima vs. Andy Souwer

The ridiculousness of this card don't make no damn sense

Spoiler

But I can't wait

 

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Live in 4 hours

 

[LinusCaldwell]

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Here's a link to a Russian TV channel that's supposed to be airing the fight card for tonight.

It starts at 1 et/ 12 ct for anybody interested.

Spoiler

Матч ТВ (Россия-2, Спорт) онлайн - смотреть бесплатно

 

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I have to catch a flight in 5 hours, and I'm up watching this.

Horrible decision making on my part

 

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I have to catch a flight in 5 hours, and I'm up watching this.

Horrible decision making on my part

same, I got a meeting right at 7

saitama super arena looks kinda empty

 

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same, I got a meeting right at 7

saitama super arena looks kinda empty

Yeah, that's the same thing I was thinking. Japanese MMA is

But nobody does pageantry like the Japanese

 

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at the crowd booing yuji shimada

 

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I don't even know what's going on right now, but this is awesome.

 

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How many close ups of this dude's butt are they going to show

 

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oh shyt PRIDE theme back

 

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shinya aoki walks around like a homeless vagrant

 

[jackswstd]

Taker entrances ain't got nothing on this. 27 minutes in and still not one punch thrown.

 

[trick]

Taker entrances ain't got nothing on this. 27 minutes in and still not one punch thrown.

spike gonna clip the fukk out of the opening ceremony on thursday

 

[jackswstd]

Seeing Cyborg get dwarfed by this Gabi chick in that sparring video is