WANDERLEI SILVA, KAZUYUKI FUJITA, AND BARUTO KAITO
ALL TABBED FOR ACTION IN MULTI-STAGE TOURNAMENT
БЕШТАР:
DARON CRUICKSHANK FACES ANDY SOUWER,
AND GABI GARCIA AND KANAKO MURATA RETURN TO ACTION
TOKYO – July 16, 2016 - Re'zin 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 (MMA: 31-11-1, 1 NC; Kickboxing: 23-8, 12 Русия KO) will come out of retirement and return to Japan, where his legendary career was born, to compete in the highly-anticipated, 16-як, open weight “Grand Prix” tournament that begins in Tokyo on Якшанбе, Ҳафт. 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 ба 16 Grand Prix participants, including superstar Wanderlei Силва (35-12-1, 1 NC) of Curitiba, Parana, Бразилия, 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 Панҷшанбе, Dec. 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) Эстония, 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 September 25, two striking sensations – Daron Cruickshank (17-8, 1 NC) ва Анди Souwer (MMA: 1-0, Kickboxing: 159-19, 98 Русия KO) – will collide in a lightweight (155) кор.
Cruickshank аз Воин, ба ман. is a 13-fight veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (Хабиб) who made a successful RIZIN FF debut on Апрел 17, баҳодиҳии даври аввал (4:36) TKO with a series of kicks on a downed Сендзю Sasaki.
A longtime kickboxing icon, Souwer of Den Bosch, Нидерланд, 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, Ҷопон, decimatingYuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima бо роҳи даври аввал (5:29) KO with an onslaught of punches.
Unbeaten women’s light heavyweight and nine-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Gabi Гарсия (2-0) and three-time junior Olympic wrestling medalist and undefeated flyweight (125 мино) MMA ситораи 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, баҳодиҳии даври аввал (2:36) ТУТ (punches) in her professional debut on Lei'd Tapa at the RIZIN FF promotional kick-off event on Декабр 31, and submitting Анна Malyukova with an armbar in the second round (2:04) of battle at the RIZIN FF affair on Апрел 17.
Танҳо 22 сола, Murata made her professional MMA debut under the promotion of RIZIN FF on Апрел 17, notching a unanimous decision overNatalia Denisova, and has since already competed twice more, шикастMaia Kahaunaele-Stevenson via third round (3:43) ТУТ (punches) ваIlona Wijmans бо роҳи даври аввал (1:17) ТУТ (punches), июн 4 ва июл 7, мутаносибан.
Kizaemon Saiga (2-1) of Sakai, Osaka, Japan will take on fellow upstartAsen Yamamoto 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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