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

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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 榊原信行, announced at a press conference today that all-time great Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (MMA: 31-11-1, 1 NC; 跆拳道: 23-8, 12 KO的) will come out of retirement and return to Japan, where his legendary career was born, to compete in the highly-anticipated, 16-一, open weight “Grand Prix” tournament that begins in Tokyo on 星期天, 七. 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 的 16 Grand Prix participants, including superstar 萬德雷·席爾瓦 (35-12-1, 1 NC) 庫里蒂巴, 巴拉那, 巴西, 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 星期四, 十二月. 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) 愛沙尼亞, 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 九月 25, two striking sensations – 達龍克魯克香克 (17-8, 1 NC) 和 安迪Souwer (MMA: 1-0, 跆拳道: 159-19, 98 KO的) – will collide in a lightweight (155) 事.

韋恩克魯克香克, 我. is a 13-fight veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) who made a successful RIZIN FF debut on 四月 17, 得分第一輪 (4:36) TKO with a series of kicks on a downed 佐佐木真司.

A longtime kickboxing icon, Souwer of Den Bosch, 荷蘭, 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, 日本, decimatingYuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima 通過第一輪的方式 (5:29) KO with an onslaught of punches.

Unbeaten women’s light heavyweight and nine-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt 加比·加西亞 (2-0) and three-time junior Olympic wrestling medalist and undefeated flyweight (125 英鎊) MMA明星 村田加奈子 (3-0) of Ehime, Japan will each see action against an opponent to be announced soon.

Garcia of Porto Alege, 南里奧格蘭德州, Brazil made quick work of both of her MMA opponents to date, 得分第一輪 (2:36) WHO (拳) in her professional debut on Lei'd塔帕 at the RIZIN FF promotional kick-off event on 十二月 31, and submitting 安娜Malyukova with an armbar in the second round (2:04) of battle at the RIZIN FF affair on 四月 17.

剛 22 歲, Murata made her professional MMA debut under the promotion of RIZIN FF on 四月 17, notching a unanimous decision overNatalia Denisova, and has since already competed twice more, 擊敗Maia Kahaunaele-Stevenson via third round (3:43) WHO (拳) 和Ilona Wijmans 通過第一輪的方式 (1:17) WHO (拳), 六月 4 七月 7, 分別.

Kizaemon Saiga (2-1) of Sakai, Osaka, Japan will take on fellow upstart阿森山本 at a weight to be determined.

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

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