WANDERLEI SILVA, KAZUYUKI FUJITA, AND BARUTO KAITO
ALL TABBED FOR ACTION IN MULTI-STAGE TOURNAMENT

තව:
DARON CRUICKSHANK FACES ANDY SOUWER,
AND GABI GARCIA AND KANAKO MURATA RETURN TO ACTION

TOKYO – July 16, 2016 - රෙෂින්ගේ සිට FF, the combat sports federation headed by former PRIDE Fighting Championships boss Nobuyuki Sakakibara, announced at a press conference today that all-time great Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (ඵම්එම්ඒ: 31-11-1, 1 එන්.සී.; කතාවට අනුව ගෙදර ස්වාමියාගේ බෑනාද: 23-8, 12 KO ගේ) will come out of retirement and return to Japan, where his legendary career was born, to compete in the highly-anticipated, 16-එක්, open weight “Grand Prix” tournament that begins in Tokyo on ඉරිදා, හත. 25.

A former PRIDE and K-1 Grand Prix tournament champion, Filipovic earned his place as one of the greatest martial arts combatants in history with an elite set of striking skills that helped him earn the most first round finishes as well as the most head kick knockouts in PRIDE history.

It was also announced today that 4 පිළිබඳ 16 Grand Prix participants, including superstar Wanderlei සිල්වා (35-12-1, 1 එන්.සී.) of Curitiba, Parana, බ්රසීලය, will receive a bye in the first stage, and automatically advance to the tournament’s second, or quarterfinal stage, which will take place at a location to be announced on බ්රහස්පතින්දා, දෙසැම්බර්. 29.

Joining Sakakibara, Filipovic and Silva at the press conference were veteran warhorse Kazuyiki Fujita (15-11) of Funabashi, Chiba, Japan and former sumo wrestling champion turned MMA upstart Baruto Kaito (1-0) එස්තෝනියා පිළිබඳ, both of whom have been tabbed for battle in the first stage of the tournament.

The round of 16 matchups will be announced at the end of July.

In other, single-fight action on සැප්තැම්බර් 25, two striking sensations – Daron කෘඉක්ශන්ක් (17-8, 1 එන්.සී.) හා ඇන්ඩි Souwer (ඵම්එම්ඒ: 1-0, කතාවට අනුව ගෙදර ස්වාමියාගේ බෑනාද: 159-19, 98 KO ගේ) – will collide in a lightweight (155) අනියම්.

වේන් ක කෘඉක්ශන්ක්, මට. is a 13-fight veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) who made a successful RIZIN FF debut on අප්රේල් 17, පළමු වටය ලකුණු (4:36) TKO with a series of kicks on a downed Shinji Sasaki.

A longtime kickboxing icon, Souwer of Den Bosch, නෙදර්ලන්තය, is a two-time winner of the K-1 World Max tournament and a four-time Shootboxing world champion. On December 31, 2015, he made his long-awaited MMA rules debut at the inaugural RIZIN FF event in Saitama, ජපානය, decimatingYuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima පළමු වටයේ මගින් (5:29) KO with an onslaught of punches.

Unbeaten women’s light heavyweight and nine-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Gabi ගාර්ෂියා (2-0) and three-time junior Olympic wrestling medalist and undefeated flyweight (125 රාත්තල්) ඵම්එම්ඒ තරු Kanako Murata (3-0) of Ehime, Japan will each see action against an opponent to be announced soon.

Garcia of Porto Alege, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil made quick work of both of her MMA opponents to date, පළමු වටය ලකුණු (2:36) WHO, (හැලහැප්පිලි අස්සේ) in her professional debut on Tapa Lei'd at the RIZIN FF promotional kick-off event on දෙසැම්බර් 31, and submitting ඇනා Malyukova with an armbar in the second round (2:04) of battle at the RIZIN FF affair on අප්රේල් 17.

යන්තම් 22 වයස අවුරුදු, Murata made her professional MMA debut under the promotion of RIZIN FF on අප්රේල් 17, notching a unanimous decision overNatalia Denisova, and has since already competed twice more, පරාජයMaia Kahaunaele-Stevenson via third round (3:43) WHO, (හැලහැප්පිලි අස්සේ) හාIlona Wijmans පළමු වටයේ මගින් (1:17) WHO, (හැලහැප්පිලි අස්සේ), ජුනි 4 සහ ජූලි 7, පිළිවෙලින්.

Kizaemon Saiga (2-1) of Sakai, Osaka, Japan will take on fellow upstartAsen යමමොටෝ at a weight to be determined.

Women’s shoot boxing champion and unbeaten MMA competitor Rena Kubota (1-0) of Osaka, Japan will make her second start under MMA rules against an opponent to be announced.

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