{"id":381540,"date":"2026-01-01T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381540\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:32:21","slug":"shaidulloev-defends-nazimov-wins-in-13-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381540\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaidulloev defends, Nazimov wins in 13 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 31, 2025, 10:57 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The final major MMA card of 2025 is in the books after RIZIN FF concluded its annual New Year&#8217;s Eve extravaganza in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wednesday&#8217;s card from the historic Saitama Super Arena saw a plethora of highlight-reel finishes and noteworthy results on a lineup that included four championship fights at the top of the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the main event, Razhabali Shaidulloev (17-0) defended his featherweight belt for the second time with a first-round TKO of Mikuru Asakura (19-6), who was overwhelmed with strikes inside three minutes. After the bout, Shaidulloev received praise online as arguably the best fighter outside of the UFC currently \u2013 and especially at 145 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The co-headliner saw the quickest and most spectacular outcome of all, with Ilkhom Nazimov (13-3) taking the lightweight belt from Roberto Satoshi (20-4) in just 13 seconds courtesy of a pinpoint right step knee that immediately that to the knockdown and fight-ending sequence.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DS7eUjfDWf8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In other championship action, Hiromasa Ougikubo (30-8-2) outworked Yuki Motoya (39-15) for a unanimous decision to claim the vacant flyweight title, while former Bellator title challenger Danny Sabatello (17-4-1) relied on grappling in a split decision over Naoki Inoue (20-5) to take home bantamweight gold.<\/p>\n<p>Complete RIZIN FF results included:Razhabali Shaidulloev def. Mikuru Asakura via TKO (punches) \u2014 Round 1, 2:54 \u2013 to defend featherweight titleIlkhom Nazimov def. Roberto Satoshi via knockout (knee) \u2014 Round 1, 0:13 \u2013 to win lightweight titleHiromasa Ougikubo def. Yuki Motoya via unanimous decision \u2013 to win vacant flyweight titleDanny Sabatello def. Naoki Inoue via split decision \u2013 to win bantamweight titleSeika Izawa def. Rena Kubota via submission (guillotine choke) \u2014 Round 2, 1:58Kleber Koike def. Vugar Karamov via unanimous decisionRyuya Fukuda def. Tatsuya Ando via knockout (strikes) \u2014 Round 2, 3:02Kyoma Akimoto def. Suguru Nii via TKO (knee to body) \u2014 Round 1, 3:44Karshyga Dautbek vs. Yuta Kubo ruled a no contest (accidental eye poke) \u2014 Round 1, 3:15Makoto Takahashi def. Hiroya Kondo via unanimous decisionJoji Goto def. Jose Torres via split decisionTatsuki Shinotsuka def. Daichi Tomizawa via knockout (punches) \u2014 Round 2, 3:22Tatsuya Saika def. Noah Bey via knockout (head kick) \u2014 Round 2, 0:32Ryoma Shishimoto def. Ryusei Ashizawa via submission (armbar) \u2014 Round 1, 0:25Enzo Massami Iamazato def. Yuri Suda via submission (armbar) \u2014 Round 1, 3:15<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 31, 2025, 10:57 a.m. ET The final major MMA card of 2025 is in the books after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[159202,49,48,641,638,82,162055,162056,162480,162478,159087,162479,159095,159090,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-381540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmma","tag-sstsnmma","tag-tagholiday-marketplace-hub","tag-tagjapan","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagnew-years-eve","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}