Heavyweight: Gabi გარსია vs. Destanie Yarbrough
Strawweight: Kanako Murata vs. კირა Batara
Rena Kubota vs. Miyuu Yamamoto

მეტი: Five fighters added to the 16-man, open weight tournament that kicks off at the September extravaganza

TOKYO - აგვისტო 16, 2016 - რეცინის FF, საბრძოლო სპორტის ფედერაცია, რომელსაც სათავეში უდგას PRIDE Fighting Championships Championship სიყვარული Sakakibara, today revealed at a press conference the matchups for the three women’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) bouts slated for the highly-anticipated Grand Prix event in Tokyo on კვირა, შვიდი. 25.

Facing off with previously announced, undefeated MMA rising star and ninth degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Gabi Garcia (2-0) will be fellow unbeaten prospect and professional football standout Destanie Yarbrough (1-0).

Three-time junior Olympic wrestling medalist and undefeated MMA upstart კანაკო მურატა (3-0) will square off with Combate Americas MMA star კირა "Mogwai" Batara (5-3) in a strawweight (115 ფუნტი) კონკურსი.

Renowned shoot boxing champion რენა კუბოტა (1-0) will make her second start under MMA rules against famed women’s freestyle wrestling pioneer Miyuu Yamamoto (0-0), who will make her long-awaited MMA debut on the same card as her son, ასენის Yamamoto (0-1). The weight limit of the Kubota-Yamamoto matchup will be announced soon.

გარდა ამისა,, it was announced that five new fighters – heavyweights გიორგი "Denise" Prochazka (17-3-1) of the Czech Republic and Amir Aliakbari (2-0) of Iran, and light heavyweights Teodorasu Aukstuolis (9-3) of Lithuania,"მეფე" კარლ Albrektsson (5-0) of Sweden and Valentine Moldavski (3-0) of Russia – have all been added to the much-anticipated, 16-man open weight tournament that will kick off and headline the სექტემბერი 25 ღონისძიება.

The five fighters join previously announced MMA legend მირკო "კრო კოპი" ფილიპოვიჩი (MMA: 31-11-1, 1 NC; Kickboxing: 23-8, 12 KO ს), fellow PRIDE FC veteran and combat sports fan favorite Kazuyuki Fujita (15-11) and former sumo wrestling champion ბარუტო კაიტო (1-0) in the multi-event, single-elimination affair.

The tournament’s first stage matchups will be announced soon.

Gabi გარსია vs. Destanie Yarbrough

6-foot-2, 30-year-old Garcia of Porto Alege, რიო გრანდე დო სული, Brazil will look for her third consecutive MMA victory following her second round (2:04) წარდგენის (armbar) საქართველოს Anna Malyukova at the RIZIN FF extravaganza onაპრილი 17.

Yarbrough of Fresno, Calif. is a 5-foot-7, 28-year-old running back for the Women’s Football Alliance squad, the Central Cal War Angels, which finished its 2016 season with a perfect, 7-0 ჩანაწერი. The stocky powerhouse led the league last season in both touchdowns and rushing yards.

A lifelong athlete, Yarbrough made an explosive, professional MMA debut onაპრილი 1, scoring a 33-second TKO (ექიმი შეჩერება) on Crystal Parson.

Caption: Combate Americas MMA star Kyra Batara (ზემოთ) will make her RIZIN FF debut against Kanako Murata

Kanako Murata vs. კირა Batara

The 5-foot-1, 23-year-old Murata of Ehime, Japan will make her debut at strawweight following three consecutive wins, the last two of which came by way of TKO (punches), in flyweight (125 ფუნტი) კონკურსები.

ბრძოლა out of Las Vegas, Nev., the 4-foot-11, 21-year-old Batara, who typically fights in the atomweight (105 ფუნტი) განყოფილების, is riding a three-fight win streak under the promotion of U.S. Hispanic MMA franchise, Combate ამერიკის.

In her last start, Batara finished Jenny “The Phoenix” Silverio in unprecedented fashion – a ground and pound version of Eddie Bravo’s patented “twister” – that earned Batara, a protégé of Bravo, a TKO in the second round (4:13) ბრძოლა.

Rena Kubota vs. Miyuu Yamamoto

The 5-foot-3, 25-year-old Kubota of Osaka, Japan is a three-time shoot boxing tournament champion who boasts a stellar, career kickboxing record of 25-5-1 (6 KO ს).

Kubota made her much-anticipated MMA rules debut at the inaugural RIZIN FF event on დეკემბერი 31, submitting Jleana Valentino with a brilliantly executed flying armbar in the second round (3:31) აქცია.

The daughter of Olympic wrestler Ikuei Yamamoto and elder sister of MMA superstar and 2005 K-1 HERO’s Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto, the 5-foot-1, 42-year-old Miyuu of Kanagawa, Japan will enter a new chapter in her career and family legacy when she steps in the RIZIN FF squared circle for the first time.

Miyuu earned her first national wrestling championship when she was 13 წლის, and subsequently defended it four straight years. At age 17, she became the youngest world champion in history.

Miyuu’s son, Asen, დაეჯახება კიზაემონ საიგა (2-1) საქაის, Japan at a weight to be determined.

RIZIN FF World Grand Prix 2016: Opening Round

განახლებულია Fight Card

Open Weight Tournament Bout: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. TBA
Open Weight Tournament Bout: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. TBA
Open Weight Tournament Bout: Baruto Kaito vs. TBA
მსუბუქი: Daron CRUICKSHANK vs. ენდი Souwer
Heavyweight: Gabi გარსია vs. Destanie Yarbrough
Strawweight: Kanako Murata vs. კირა Batara
Weight TBD: Rena Kubota vs. Miyuu Yamamoto
Weight TBD: Asen Yamamoto vs. კიზაემონ საიგა

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