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‘The Smashing Machine’ makes cinematic landfall in Japan Now fans in Japan can see what all the hype was about.

Goiti Yamauchi Shines Atop Championship Quintuple Header at Pancrase 360 Pancrase capped off 2025 with a quintet of championship fights Sunday at Tachikawa Stage Garden in Tokyo, Japan. Pancrase 360 was headlined by a strong performance from former Bellator standout...

Akimoto Stops Hagiwara, Izawa Retains Title at Rizin FF ‘Landmark Vol. 12’ Japan's brightest teenage prospect and one of the top pound-for-pound women in the sport picked up big wins at Rizin Landmark Vol. 12 on Sunday...

Chihiro Suzuki Stops Masanori Kanehara to Retain Featherweight Title at Rizin 46 Chihiro Suzuki made a successful first defense of his featherweight title with a first-round TKO stoppage on Sunday at Rizin Fighting Federation 46 in Tokyo, Japan. The 24-year-old Suzuki overwhelmed veteran challenger Masanori Kanehara with a barrage of ground punches at the 4:20 mark of Round 1.

Masanori Kanehara Upsets Kleber Koike Erbst in Rizin 44 Featherweight Headliner Rizin 44 concluded with a shocking upset in Sunday’s featherweight main event in Saitama, Japan....

A Sitdown with Rizin FF Video Producer Daisuke Sato The man behind the legendary “Fedor vs. Cro Cop” hype reel spoke to Go Yamamoto about his work for Rizin and his two-decade career creating...

A Sitdown with Japan’s MMA Officials Committee From "Pride-style scoring" to soccer kicks, ahead of the Rizin 40: Bellator MMA vs. Rizin NYE extravaganza, representatives of the JMOC spoke to...

A Sitdown with Rizin Fighting Federation’s Shingo Kashiwagi, Part 2 In the second—and final—installment of this exclusive interview, the lauded executive breaks down a variety of topics associated with mixed...

A Sitdown with Rizin Fighting Federation’s Shingo Kashiwagi, Part 1 In the first installment of this exclusive interview, the lauded executive breaks down a variety of topics associated with mixed martial arts.

Rizin Fighting Federation 1 Results: Play-by-Play & Updates Sherdog.com will have live Rizin FF 1 play-by-play at approximately 4:30 a.m. ET.