RIZIN.55 Stages 13 Fights in Chiba With Kaminaga vs. Laramie on Top
RIZIN.55 takes place on November 8 at LaLa arena TOKYO-BAY in Funabashi, Chiba, with 13 fights on the card. Flyweight champion Sei Kaminaga meets challenger Tony Laramie in the main event.
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Why it matters
The Chiba card is where RIZIN settles its contenders, with the semi-main naming the next challenger to Danny Sabatello's bantamweight belt on a show that runs directly ahead of the year-end Cho RIZIN.6.
The semi-main pits former bantamweight champion Naoki Inoue against Irisbek Tilenov for the right to challenge Danny Sabatello's belt. The card also includes Soki Aimoto's RIZIN debut and a bantamweight bout between Tatsuya Fukuda and Kim Soo-chul. ABEMA PPV, Skyper!, RIZIN 100 CLUB and RIZIN LIVE carry the event.
RIZIN has already announced the year-end Cho RIZIN.6, with Mikuru Asakura on the card and a featherweight title fight among the bouts. The Chiba show runs directly ahead of it, and several fighters arrive with unsettled business. Takumi Hamada was stripped of his Pancrase flyweight title after entering a BreakingDown audition without telling the promotion, then appealed directly to CEO Sakakibara to get a RIZIN bout. Yukinori Akazawa returns after admitting doping use and stepping away from competition. Shinobu Ota, an Olympic wrestling silver medalist, meets jiu-jitsu fighter Jinnosuke Kashimura at bantamweight.
- Rikiya vs. Ryuto Kimura: flyweight, 57.0kg
- Takumi Hamada vs. Sho Sekihara: flyweight, 57.0kg
- Tatsuya "Yanbo" Saika vs. Daigo Kuramoto: lightweight, 71.0kg
- Taichi Nakajima vs. Tsukasa Mizoguchi: bantamweight, 61.0kg
- Hiroaki Suzuki vs. Chiharu: featherweight, 66.0kg
- Mack Papali'i vs. Yukinori Akazawa: heavyweight, 120.0kg
- Kim Kyung-pyo vs. Nurkhan Zumagazhi: lightweight, 71.0kg
- Juntaro Ushiku vs. Lee Kaiwen: featherweight, 66.0kg
- Abaija Kaleo Meheura vs. Soki Aimoto: featherweight; no contest rules after Meheura missed weight
- Jinnosuke Kashimura vs. Shinobu Ota: bantamweight, 61.0kg
- Tatsuya Fukuda vs. Kim Soo-chul: bantamweight; both are former title challengers
- Sei Kaminaga vs. Tony Laramie: main event, flyweight title
- Naoki Inoue vs. Irisbek Tilenov: semi-main, bantamweight title eliminator
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