RIZIN LANDMARK 11 in SAPPORO

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

Sora Anzai vs Motto Ganbare Furukawa under kickboxing rules, Arashi Suzuki vs Suguru Hayasaka, Yuuki Narita vs Takashi Noto, TOSHIZOU vs Yuya Uzawa under Kickboxing rules, Kuto Ueno vs Farphayap GRABS under Kickboxing rules, Kanata Ueno vs Kensei Yamakawa under Kickboxing rules, SALT vs Machi ***uda, Joji Goto vs Jinnosuke Kashimura, Magerram Gasanzade vs Tatsuya Ando, Taichi Nakajima vs ︀︀Koro Suke, Viktor Kolesnik vs SASUKE, and Alexander Soldatkin vs Prince Aounallah have all been added. Soldatkin vs Aounallah will be the final first round bout of the 2025 Heavyweight Grand Prix.

the best regional Japanese fighters who refused to go to rizin are finally coming to rizin on this card. ando,nishikawa and sasuke are all shooto champions that have ignored rizin. It seems like rizin have set them up with really tough opponents for their debuts so they could all lose

SINA KARIMIAN MMA FIGHT

This might go down as the greatest fight in MMA history

https://x.com/rizin_pr/status/1923304259933917400?s=46&t=OP4EvDjbI6TLb8B9agi6dg

Karamov vs. Kimura
Vugar Karamov, SUB, R1
Vugi is very beatable but I thjnk experience will get the job done here. Kimura has looked great thus far and hits like a truck bjt he hasn’t fought anyone. Vugi generally pretty durable, just got caught with an up kick against Suzuki. If he gets takedowns this will be a quick night at the office imo

Horie vs. Nishikawa
Yamato Nishikawa, TKO, R2
I still think nishikawa can be good. He’s crazy young for the amount of fights he has and got thrown to the wolves in pfl. He was able to have some success of his own too, just lost to better guys. I think he can get Horie down and grind him out

Kolesnik vs. Sasu
Viktor Kolesnik, TKO, R3
Kolesnik fights are always very violent, he should get a finish here as sasu has durability issues

Soldatkin vs. Aounallah
Prince Aounallah, TKO, R3
Soldatkin is probably too explosive in r1 but if he doesn’t get that early finish I think Prince will take over and finish him/grind him out. I cannot take Soldatkin seriously after the sehic and dwcs fights

Hasegawa vs. ***uda
Machi ***uda, TKO, R1
***uda has some potential

Gasanzade vs. Ando
Magerram Gasanzade, DEC
Ando’s chin needs to be studied, I don’t know how he eats the shots he does & when you do drop him he recovers as he falls

Karimian vs. Arato
Sina Karimian, TKO, R1
1 td ends the fight but war Sina. I can’t believe he’s doing mma, this guy is gonna be a ******* menace with grounded knees and soccer kicks. One of the biggest meme lords in combat sports

Nishikawas resume at his age seems good but he's literally the size of a bantamweight fighting at lightweight and has abandoned his grappling recently. He has barely improved his skillset from when he was 19 and definitely lost usami in his last fight . I think horie will outclass him everywhere

Karamov vs. Kimura
Shuya Kimura, TKO, R1
keramov could definitely win this but if kimura lands i think it will be all over. Kimura also has always trained in a grappling gym called brave

Horie vs. Nishikawa
Yoshinori Horie, TKO, R2
Horie is by far the better fighter in my opinion. I will be surprised if nishikawa wins

Kolesnik vs. Sasu
Viktor Kolesnik, TKO, R3
kolesnik better get a finish this time if he wants a big name in rizin

Nakajima vs. Terashima
Taichi Nakajima, TKO, R2
nakajima is better at basically everything and will box coros head off. he's only here because he's the husband of seika izawa

Goto vs. Kashimura
Joji Goto, DEC
goto is oen if the most underrated Japanese fighters and trains in the best gym in japan tribe tokyo. both fighter should be regulars in rizin as their bantamweight division is lacking

Gasanzade vs. Ando
Magerram Gasanzade, DEC
He will probably outgrapple him. Ando is old but is very tough and can cause an upset

Nazimov vs. Nii
Ilkhom Nazimov, TKO, R1
this is a mismatch and apparently nii asked for this fight. suguru nii is half an influencer in japan and doesn't seem to take fighting as seriously as others and will give up quickly

Karimian vs. Arato
Sina Karimian, TKO, R1
hopefully sina wins for entertainment

Yamamoto vs. Suzuki
Sora Yamamoto, DEC
suzuki is too old so his striking isnt even good anymore. yamamoto is also preety bad so whoever loses this wont fight for rizin for a while.

What is Sima doing in mma LMAO

* Edited at 06.04.2025, 5:27 AM ET *