{"id":182065,"date":"2025-10-01T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182065\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:08:13","slug":"from-hollywood-to-japan-mma-star-ryan-bader-has-his-sights-on-rizin-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182065\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hollywood to Japan, MMA star Ryan Bader has his sights on Rizin glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 4, as mixed martial artists from Japan and around the world fought under the bright lights of Tokyo Dome during Rizin Fighting Federation\u2019s Otoko Matsuri event, a decorated American heavyweight sat in the front row as a mere spectator \u2014 or so it appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a film set with Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson and Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader patiently awaited his cue to deliver the news that he and the promotion had kept quiet until that night. Later, between fights, he entered the ring along with Rizin CEO Nobuyuki Sakakibara and made a promise to those in attendance and watching around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to fight,\u201d Bader said into a microphone with a smile as he shook Sakakibara\u2019s hand. \u201cOne hundred percent, I\u2019ll be your champion by January.\u201d And with that, the stage was set for Rizin\u2019s annual New Year\u2019s Eve fight card at Saitama Super Arena, with Bader scheduled to take on the winner of the promotion\u2019s heavyweight grand prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 4, as mixed martial artists from Japan and around the world fought under the bright lights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,15804,75595,85,72277,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-182065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-rizin","13":"tag-ryan-bader","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-smashing-machine","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}