Rizin Fighting Federation once again took center stage in the martial arts world and the 2025 chapter has been added to the rich story of Japan’s New Year’s Eve martial arts events. In the headliner of RFF’s year-end effort, Razhabali Shaidulloev dispatched Mikuru Asakura in less than three minutes to maintain his grip on the Rizin featherweight belt. The champion maintained his impeccable 17-0 record and 100 percent finish rate, and Japan’s biggest MMA star left the arena on a stretcher.
The co-main event of Rizin NYE 2025 saw a new champion crowned, and the short-notice replacement title challenger emerged in grand and dramatic fashion. Roberto Satoshi De Souza is Rizin’s inaugural Lightweight Champion and was their longest reigning titleholder overall, but his lengthy reign came to a halt in just thirteen seconds.
Shunta Nomura was initially scheduled to fight for the Rizin Fighting Federation belt until he withdrew and Ilhom Nozimov took the vacancy. The late replacement gamble clearly paid off big time, as Nozimov now oversaw the 155-pound division in RFF.
Rizin NYE 2025 and the events of three other title fights
Hiromasa Ougikubo continued his title fight streak, writing a unanimous decision win over Yuki Motoya, winning not only the 125-pound title but also the Rizin Fighting Federation flyweight Grand Prix belt.
In yet another championship affair, former Bellator MMA star Danny Sabatello captured the RFF bantamweight title via split decision in a dogged performance against former titleholder Naoki Inoue.
Seika Izawa represented another undefeated MMA fighter on this card who kept up their spotless ledger, but she had to dig deeper against Rena Kubota to do so. Rizin’s super atomweight champion took on the hugely popular Rena Kubota, with Izawa getting dropped in the early stages of the fight but rallying again in the second stanza to earn a submission victory.
The remaining results for Rizin’s New Year’s Eve Offer 2025 can be found below:
- Kleber Koike defeated Vugar Karamov by unanimous decision
- Ryuya Fukuda defeated Tatsuya Ando by KO at 3:02 in round 2
- Kyoma Akimoto defeated Suguru Nii by KO at 3:44 of round 1
- Karshyga Dautbek vs. Yuta Kubo ends at 3:15 of R1 via no contest (eye poke)
- Makoto Takahashi defeated Hiroya Kondo by unanimous decision
- Joji Goto defeated Jose Torres via split decision
- Tatsuki Shinotsuka defeated Daichi Tomizawa by KO at 3:22 of round 2
- Tatsuya Saika defeated Noah Bey by KO at 0:32 of round 2
- Ryoma Shishimoto defeated Ryusei Ashizawa by submission (armbar) at 0:25 of round 1
- Enzo Massami Iamazato defeated Yuri Suda by submission (ARMBAR) at 3:15 of the round
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