RIZIN events lineups set

The “new PRIDE” RIZIN Fighting Federation event will debut with two events, both at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

The first event will take place on Tuesday, and feature the first round of a $300,000 8-man heavyweight tournament, with Shinya Aoki vs. KazushiSakuraba headlining. The second event will take place on Thursday, and will feature the tournament semis and finals; FedorEmelianenko vs. Jaideep Singh will headline.

Spike has exclusive US rights to the event. The Rizin Fighting World Grand Prix 2015

will air on Spike, Dec 31 at 10:00 AM.

Day 1 (Tuesday)

Shinya Aoki vs. KazushiSakuraba

Satoshi Ishii vs. JiriProchazka – heavyweight tournament opening round

Vadim Nemkov vs. GoranReljic – heavyweight tournament opening round

Teodoras Aukstuolis vs. Bruno Cappelozza – heavyweight tournament opening round

Muhammed Lawal vs. Brett McDermott – heavyweight tournament opening round

Valentin Moldavsky vs. Yuta Uchida – heavyweight tournament alternate fight

Daiki Hata vs. HiroyukiTakaya

Kizaemon Saiga vs. HideoTokoro

A.J. Matthews vs. AnatolyTokov

Felipe Efrain vs. Yuki Motoya

Kirill Sidelnikov vs. Carlos Toyota

Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. James Thompson

Day 2

TBA vs. TBA – heavyweight tournament final

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Jaideep Singh

Kron Gracie vs. Asen Yamamoto

Kaido Hoovelson vs. Jerome LeBanner

Yuichiro Nagashima vs. Andy Souwer

Gabi Garcia vs. SeiniDraughn

Soo Chul Kim vs. MaikeLinharesGalvaoAmorim

Ken Hasegawa vs. Brennan Ward

TBA vs. TBA – heavyweight tournament semifinals

TBA vs. TBA – heavyweight tournament semifinals

Rena Kubota vs. Jleana Valentino

Day 1 Weigh-in Results 

Kazushi Sakuraba (171) vs. Shinya Aoki (169.75)

Satoshi Ishii (219) vs. Jiri Prochazka (211.5)

Goran Reljic (215) vs. Vadim Nemkov (219.5)

Teodoras Aukstuolis (216) vs. Bruno Henrique Cappelozza (218)

Muhammed Lawal (214) vs. Brett McDermott (215)

Yuta Uchida (209) vs. Valentin Moldavsky (215)

Hiroyuki Takaya (143) vs. Daiki Hata (143)

Hideo Tokoro (135) vs. Kizaemon Saiga (136)

A.J. Matthews (184) vs. Anatoly Tokov (185)

Yuki Motoya (125) vs. Felipe Efrain (128)

Kirill Sidelnikov (253) vs. Carlos Toyota (259)

Tsuyoshi Kosaka (220.5) vs. James Thompson (291)