May's RIZIN 42 card has been announced in its entirety, and some familiar names will be taking part. Among the standouts in action, Kai Asakura (19-4) returns for the first time since December 2021. The former bantamweight champion will seek...

Former Bellator MMA bantamweight champion Juan Archuleta has been granted leave to hunt for a title in Japanese promotion RIZIN. Archuleta will face UFC and RIZIN veteran Naoki Inoue at RIZIN 42 on May 6, 2023, promotion officials announced Monday. "The...

April 1's RIZIN 41 will mark the first card of the year for the Japanese fight promotion, with the organization touching down in Osaka for the event. On Wednesday, multiple bouts for the show were announced, by both promotion officials...

Having fought the entirety of his career inside the confines of the Bellator MMA cage, there was arguably no better representative of the promotion to top the show at Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN on New Year's Eve than A.J....

The champion versus champion aspect of Patricio Pitbull vs. Kleber Koike at Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN made it arguably the most intriguing fight of the entire card. While other bouts on the cross-promotional New Year's Eve battle featured current and...

In a bit of quirky matchmaking, Japan's Kyoji Horiguchi, RIZIN's reigning bantamweight champion, represented Bellator during Saturday's Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN cross-promotion. Make that former bantamweight champ — ahead of the fight, Horiguchi vacated his title, opting to focus...

Bantamweight action at Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN saw two of the respective promotion's best 135lb'ers go head-to-head on New Year's Eve. The second fight in at the Saitama Super Arena just outside Tokyo had former Bellator MMA champ Juan Archuleta...

Saturday's RIZIN 40 was quite the spectacle, with a host of electrifying finishes leading up to the Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN cross-over card at the Saitama Super Arena on New Year's Eve. Perhaps the biggest shock, however, was the sight...

In a rarely seen cross-promotional collaboration between two of MMA's biggest organizations, Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN arrived Saturday with the chance to change the sport's promotional landscape. While yes, Bellator and RIZIN had cross-promoted before, there was little danger for...

Japan's Hiromasa Ougikubo (25-6-2) has a rare opportunity in front of him at Bellator MMA vs. RIZIN. Down 0-2 in his career series against Kyoji Horiguchi, the RIZIN bantamweight grand prix winner gets a third crack at his rival on...