The Rizin New Yr’s Eve card has featured a noticeable restructuring of their 155-pound title conflict as reigning champion Roberto Satoshi de Souza will now be dealing with new opposition. Shunta Nomura was initially set to contend for the Rizin Preventing Federation strap however needed to withdraw from the bout. The scrapped contest towards de Souza created a emptiness that noticed Ilhom Nazimov maneuver up from featherweight to vie for gold within the weight class above.
5 championship affairs will bolster an attractive providing at Saitama Tremendous Area as Japan captivates the eye of the collective fight sports activities world as we transition into the subsequent calendar yr. The worldwide broadcast choices will come by accessing Rizin.television,, and this yr’s tentpole occasion options the tagline, “Shiwasu No Cho” Tsuwamono Matsuri”.
Rizin NYE ‘s new light-weight championship bout damaged down
Roberto Satoshi de Souza has constructed up a large legacy inside the 155-pound panorama inside Rizin Fighting Federation and has the excellence of being the inaugural title holder in that weight class below their promotional banner. The 36-year-old is using a 5 battle profitable streak heading into this bout with all of these victories coming within the first spherical and seeing ‘Satoshi’ safe a number of defenses of his 155 pound RFF crown all all through that stretch.
The prolific jiu jitsu champion continues to carve out fairly a path for himself below combined martial arts guidelines as de Souza seems to be for an additional standout efficiency on. De Souza should halt the momentum of Nazimov ho has strung collectively three wins throughout his first three appearances inside Rizin.
The native of Uzbekistan has displayed some dazzling knockouts in recent times and whereas submission centric in manty of his finishes, the reigning and defending Rizin titleholder at light-weight has additionally authored some striking-based wins in latest occasions. This affair ending inside the space appears to be a statistcal probabilty and it encompasses however 20 % of Rizin’s championship battle choices with the remaining RFF title bouts reads follows,
- RFF featherweight championship: Rajabali Shaidullaev vs. Mikuru Asakura
- RFF tremendous atomweight championship: Seika Izawa vs. RENA
- RFF bantamweight championship: Naoki Inoue vs. Danny Sabatello
- RFF flyweight championship / 2025 grand prix finals: Hiromasa Ougikubo vs. Yuki Motoya
