Uzbekistan 
Japan’s New Year’s Eve MMA tradition lives on as rizin ff returns with RIZIN Shiwasu: no Cho Tsuwamono Matsuri at Saitama Super Arena. The card is built around Mikuru Asakura vs Razhabali Shaydullaev, plus the long-running crossover pipeline to the ufc.
Rizin FF closes 2025 with RIZIN Shiwasu: no Cho Tsuwamono Matsuri at Saitama Super Arena on Dec. 31. The card stacks title fights like Shaydullaev vs. Asakura plus key bouts including Inoue vs. Sabatello and Motoya vs. Ougikubo.
RIZIN FF Confessions 218 revisits RIZIN 53 in Kobe, led by Luiz Gustavo vs Ilkhom Nazimov for lightweight gold and Ryo Takagi vs Kaiwen Li. Next up: RIZIN Landmark 14 in Sendai with Ougikubo, Shinryu, Yachi, Motoya and Laramie.
RIZIN Fighting Federation brings fight-week energy to Kobe with the RIZIN 53 open weigh-in. See the final stage before Luiz Gustavo vs Ilkhom Nazimov for lightweight gold, plus the featherweight clash Kaiwen Li vs Ryo Takagi.
They are set to face each other in N1: Championship of Contact Unions.
The fight is organized by the Championship of Contact Single Combats (CCSC).
The fight is scheduled to take place on March 31, 2018
The fight is set to start at 00:00 GMT.
