Rizin Combating Federation as soon as once more took heart stage within the fight sports activities world, and the 2025 chapter has been added to the wealthy story of New Yr’s Eve fight sports activities occasions in Japan. Within the headliner of RFF’s year-end effort, Razhabali Shaidulloev dispatched Mikuru Asakura in lower than three minutes to keep up his maintain on the Rizin featherweight strap. The champion maintained his spotless 17-0 file in addition to his one-hundred p.c ending price, and Japan’s greatest MMA star left the world on a stretcher.
Within the co-main occasion of Rizin NYE 2025, a brand new champion was topped, and the short-notice alternative title challenger got here up huge and in dramatic style. Roberto Satoshi De Souza is Rizin’s inaugural light-weight champion and has been their longest reigning titleholder total, however his prolonged reign got here to a halt in simply 13 seconds.
Shunta Nomura was initially alleged to battle for the Rizin Combating Federation strap till he withdrew, and Ilhom Nozimov took up the emptiness. The late alternative gamble clearly paid off huge with Nozimov now overseeing the 155-pound division in RFF.
Rizin NYE 2025 and the happenings throughout three different title bouts
Persevering with the run of title bouts, Hiromasa Ougikubo authored a unanimous resolution win over Yuki Motoya to win not simply the belt at 125 kilos but additionally the Rizin Fighting Federation flyweight grand prix belt.
In one more championship affair, former Bellator MMA star Danny Sabatello captured the RFF bantamweight belt by way of break up resolution in a dogged efficiency towards the prior titleholder Naoki Inoue.
Seika Izawa represented one other unbeaten MMA fighter on this card who maintained their spotless ledger, however she needed to dig down deeper towards Rena Kubota to do this. The Rizin tremendous atomweight champion took on the massively standard Rena Kubota, with Izawa being dropped within the early levels of the battle however rallying again to writer a submission win within the second stanza.
The remaining outcomes for Rizin’s 2025 New Yr’s Eve providing might be discovered beneath:
- Kleber Koike defeated Vugar Karamov by means of unanimous resolution
- Ryuya Fukuda defeated Tatsuya Ando by means of a KO at 3:02 in Spherical 2
- Kyoma Akimoto defeated Suguru Nii by means of a KO at 3:44 in Spherical 1
- Karshyga Dautbek versus Yuta Kubo ends at 3:15 of R1 by way of no contest (eye poke)
- Makoto Takahashi defeated Hiroya Kondo by means of a unanimous resolution
- Joji Goto defeated Jose Torres by means of a break up resolution
- Tatsuki Shinotsuka defeated Daichi Tomizawa by means of a KO at 3:22 in Spherical 2
- Tatsuya Saika defeated Noah Bey by means of a KO at 0:32 in Spherical 2
- Ryoma Shishimoto defeated Ryusei Ashizawa by means of a submission (armbar) at 0:25 in Spherical 1
- Enzo Massami Iamazato defeated Yuri Suda by means of a submission (armbar) at 3:15 in Spherical 1
