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

KO'PROQ:
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 Shimoliy Karolina; Kikboksing: 23-8, 12 KO) will come out of retirement and return to Japan, where his legendary career was born, to compete in the highly-anticipated, 16-bir, open weight “Grand Prix” tournament that begins in Tokyo on Yakshanba, Yetti. 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 ning 16 Grand Prix participants, including superstar Wanderlei Silva (35-12-1, 1 Shimoliy Karolina) of Curitiba, Parana, Braziliya, 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 Payshanba, 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) Estoniya, 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 Sentyabr 25, two striking sensations – Daron Cruickshank (17-8, 1 Shimoliy Karolina) va Andy Souwer (MMA: 1-0, Kikboksing: 159-19, 98 KO) – will collide in a lightweight (155) ish.

Ueyn of Cruickshank, meni. is a 13-fight veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) who made a successful RIZIN FF debut on Aprel 17, dastlabki tur urdi (4:36) TKO with a series of kicks on a downed Shinji Sasaki.

A longtime kickboxing icon, Souwer of Den Bosch, Gollandiya, 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, Yaponiya, decimatingYuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima birinchi turda yo'li bilan (5:29) KO with an onslaught of punches.

Unbeaten women’s light heavyweight and nine-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Gabi Garcia (2-0) and three-time junior Olympic wrestling medalist and undefeated flyweight (125 funt) MMA yulduz 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, dastlabki tur urdi (2:36) JSST (zımbalar) in her professional debut on Lei'd topingan at the RIZIN FF promotional kick-off event on Dekabr 31, and submitting Anna Malyukova with an armbar in the second round (2:04) of battle at the RIZIN FF affair on Aprel 17.

Faqat 22 yoshdan, Murata made her professional MMA debut under the promotion of RIZIN FF on Aprel 17, notching a unanimous decision overNatalia Denisova, and has since already competed twice more, mag'lubMaia Kahaunaele-Stevenson via third round (3:43) JSST (zımbalar) vaIlona Wijmans birinchi turda yo'li bilan (1:17) JSST (zımbalar), iyun kuni 4 va iyul 7, nisbatan.

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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