We are Rizin

From our pandemic backlog, Andrew & Christian talk to UWFi wrestler Mark Fleming.

Fleming talks about his career, coming up in the territory era, training under Lou Thesz, UWFi, the problem with pro wrestling nowadays, and many more topics.

You can buy his book "It's Wrestling, Not Rasslin'!" through Crowbar Press here: http://www.crowbarpress.com/cbp-books/23-mf.html

Andrew & Christian talk to MarQ from WMMANews to discuss his documentary Girls, Grappling, and Grit, a film on the growing women's amateur wrestling scene.

If you are interested in seeing the film reach out to MarQ on social media at WMMANews on Twitter.

Andrew and Christian are joined by MarQ of WMMANews to talk about the women's MMA fights at RIZIN 26.

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Andrew welcomes back to the show Naoki Inoue, who takes on Yuki Motoya at Rizin 26. Inoue talks about his upcoming fight, training at Sonic Squad, if he should be next in line for the title, and his pick of Horiguchi/Kai.

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Twitter/Instagram: naokiinouemma

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Andrew welcomes to the show Kazuma Kuramoto who will be making his RIZIN debut at RIZIN 26 against Taiyo Nakahara.

Kuramoto talks about his fight, how many times he plans to German suplex Nakahara, how the German suplex became a trademark move of his, why he doesn't get tired in fights, his first loss, his MMA future, if wrestling is the best base for fighting, and a number of other topics.

Thank you to Shu Hirata for translating.

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Twitter: kazuma_kuramoto

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Andrew welcomes to the show the very controversial and outspoken former K1 kickboxer now RIZIN MMA fighter Ren Hiramoto. Hiramoto is making his MMA pro debut against Kyogei Hagiwara at RIZIN 26.

Hiramoto talks about his transition to MMA, his thoughts on his opponent (and it's not positive), his comments on transgender discrimination, what his goals are as an MMA fighter, his thoughts on Yutaka Saito vs Mikuru Asakura (that is also not positive), the best and worst dressed kickboxers, his prefight routines, Starbucks, and video games.

Thank you to his manager, Shu Hirata, for translating.

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Instagram/Twitter: ren___k1

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平本 蓮 / REN HIRAMOTO

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Andrew with translator LJ talk to the Japanese Muay Thai Phenom Nadaka Yoshinari (吉成 名高). Yoshinari is one of the kickboxers in the world and he is one of a few non-Thai fighters to win a Lumpinee Stadium championship. He fights Phetmalai Phetjaroenvit at RIZIN 26.

Yoshinari talks about how he got into kickboxing, kickboxing in Thailand vs kickboxing in Japan, which weight class he thinks he'll eventually settle in, his thoughts on his opponent, and difficulty in finding opponents for his weight class, elbows allowed in his RIZIN matches, being more recognizable after his RIZIN debut, and what he likes to order at Starbucks.

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Twitter: 445_nada

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Andrew & Christian welcome to the show Billy Nayden of MMA-Prospects.com to talk his RIZIN rankings, how the rankings are made, problems with the current MMA ranking system for UFC, and his thoughts on RIZIN in 2020.

Follow Nayden on Twitter: @bnayden

Check out his RIZIN rankings at https://mma-prospects.com/rizin/

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Andrew is joined by Zachary Shiloh to review Josh Barnett's Bloodsport 3. They go over all the matches, pick their favorite matches, look at Jon Moxley works the Bloodsport style, and how the wrestlers overall adapted to a shoot fighting style.

You can order the show on Fite.TV

Follow Zachary Shiloh on Twitter: BLKLion130

Listen to his podcast, "BLK Lion's Airspace" on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blk-lions-airspace/id1469823805

Andrew & Christian are joined again by Knockdown News' Jack Wannan to discuss the RIZIN 25 show from Osaka-Jo Hall.

They go over all the fights, pick possible future matchups, whether Ebata/Sano was so bad it's good or so bad it's bad, Taiga's resurrection, Hagiwara and his beautiful foot stomp, and the judging of Saito/Asakura.

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