{"id":475345,"date":"2026-02-14T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:59:06","slug":"danny-sabatello-books-first-rizin-title-defense-for-april-patricky-pitbull-james-gallagher-added-to-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475345\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Sabatello books first RIZIN title defense for April; Patricky Pitbull, James Gallagher added to card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Danny Sabatello will headline RIZIN LANDMARK 13 for his first defense of the bantamweight title on April 11, taking on Joji Goto at the Marine Messe Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">RIZIN announced the news on Friday, also confirming the return of former Bellator champion Patricky Pitbull to Japan and the promotional debut of James Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bellator veteran Sabatello (17-4-1) parted ways with PFL in 2024 and went on to win three in a row under the RIZIN banner this past year, dethroning Naoki Inoue via split decision on the final card of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Goto (20-8-1) earned a shot at the belt after going 5-0 in the RIZIN ring, most recently a split decision over Jose Torres on the same Dec. 30 show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the lightweight division, Pitbull (25-15) will battle Yoshinori Horie (14-6). A record holder for most knockouts in Bellator history, the Brazilian is in desperate need of a win after losing his past four in a row in Bellator, PFL and RIZIN. Horie last fought in September, losing a RIZIN title bout to Roberto Satoshi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ireland\u2019s Gallagher (13-3) requested his release from PFL after the company purchased Bellator and returned to action in June 2025 to beat Fabricio Soares via second-round submission in Dubai. Kazumasa Majima (18-6), his first opponent in Japan, is a veteran of nine appearances in RIZIN and only one bout ending via decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check the current RIZIN LANDMARK 13 card below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Sabatello will headline RIZIN LANDMARK 13 for his first defense of the bantamweight title on April 11,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,1859,82],"class_list":["post-475345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-rizin","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475345","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=475345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}