{"id":891036,"date":"2026-09-10T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891036\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:00:13","slug":"mvp-inks-deal-with-rizin-pfl-champion-razhabali-shaidulloev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891036\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP inks deal with RIZIN, PFL champion Razhabali Shaidulloev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Featherweight phenom Razhabali Shaidulloev will be a MVP MMA fighter in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shaidulloev defended his RIZIN belt and captured the vacant PFL title with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/rizin\/509449\/super-rizin-5-results-razhabali-shaidulloev-tops-a-j-mckee-to-win-rizin-pfl-titles-mikuru-asakura-knocks-out-shinya-aoki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision victory over A.J. McKee<\/a> in the main event of Thursday\u2019s Super RIZIN 5 in Osaka, Japan, and already has a deal in place to join the MVP roster in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">MMA Fighting has confirmed the sources following a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/2098043333306114066\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ariel Helwani<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">MVP has merged with PFL and will move forward under the MVP name in 2027, and Shaidulloev is the first talent to sign with MVP since the deal was made. Shaidulloev agreed to a two-year deal with MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shaidulloev, 25, holds a perfect 19-0 record in the sport with 18 stoppages, going the distance for the first time in his career Thursday to beat McKee. The Tajikistani featherweight is 8-0 under the RIZIN banner, an impressive run that includes stoppages over the likes of Kleber Koike, Juan Archuleta and Mikuru Asakura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shaidulloev will enter the RIZIN ring one last time before moving to MVP, though, competing on the final bout of his current deal with the Japanese promotion to defend his belt versus Kyoma Akimoto on the New Year\u2019s Eve event. Akimoto earned a shot at the belt after beating ex-champion Koike via decision this past August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featherweight phenom Razhabali Shaidulloev will be a MVP MMA fighter in 2027. Shaidulloev defended his RIZIN belt and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,211425,248131,1859,82],"class_list":["post-891036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mvp-mma","tag-mvp-mma-news","tag-rizin","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891036","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=891036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}