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Rizin Fighting Federation will return on Sunday April 17 with an intriguing fight card that will feature a 242-pound catchweight headliner between Grand Prix runner-up Jiri Prochazka and Japanese veteran Kazuyuki Fujita.
The Japanese upstart promotion will also showcase some of their talent from the NYE shows, including Vadim Nemkov, Teodoras Aukstuolis, Gabi Garcia and RENA. The promotion also signed new talent, including Chris Barnett and Daron Cruickshank.
The event will also feature a two-on-two tag-team grappling match between Wanderlei Silva and Kiyoshi Tamura against Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro. The contests is expected to open up the main card proceedings.
Rizin 1 begins at 2am ET on Sunday April 17 in Nagoya, Japan.
Check out the results below:
Main Card:
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Jiri Prochazka
Vadim Nemkov vs. Karl Albrektsson
Jaideep Singh vs. Teodoras Aukstuolis
Gabi Garcia vs. Anna Malyukova
Wanderlei/Tamura vs. Sakuraba/Tokoro
Preliminary Card:
RENA vs. Cyndi Alves [Shoot Boxing Rules]
Daron Cruickshank vs. Shinji Sasaki
Kirill Sidelnikov def. Chris Barnett via split decision
Hisaki Kato def. Yuta Watanabe via TKO (Punches, Round 1 1:19)
Kanako Murata def. Natalya Denisova via Decision (Unanimous)
Kickboxing Bouts
Tetsuya Yamato def. Hiroto Yamaguchi via TKO (Three knockdowns)
Yuya def. Yuki via TKO (Three knockdowns, 66 seconds)
Danilo Zanolini def. Norihisa Amimoto via TKO (Round 1)
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