Rizin 40 is listed as a 7 fight card at tapology and the Bellator vs Rizin Showtime card being broadcast the next day via tape delay is listed as a different event. A Fite.tv the RIZIN English Language PPV is listed as the same 7 fights as the RIZIN card at tapology. I don’t think that is accurate.
However Rizin 40 is being promoted by Rizin as containing the Bellator vs Rizin fights of course.
The Rizin PPV starts at midnight so I assume first fight will be at 1 am like normal. I’m gonna assume the PPV will feature the Bellator fights as well. Its just weird FITE has the card up as a seven fight event while RIZIN is promoting the Bellator vs RIZIN fights as you would expect.
I think its just an oversight by FITE listing the event with the 7 fights like tapology and excluding the Bellator fights.
ONE was supposed to do a NYE show last year but it was canceled for some reason. I don’t believe they have ever done one and don’t have one booked for this year.
Even as recently as a few years ago UFC would do a big PPV on Dec 28th or 29th and then of course was the RIZIN NYE show is available in the US on the 30th.
UFC got away from doing that for whatever reason. Personally because of the history with Inoki, PRIDE, K1, DREAM etc… I love big MMA shows between Christmas and New Years as a tradition.
All you have to do is sign up at www.fite.tv and buy the event for $14.99. The event starts at 12 am (pre-show) and fights start at 1 am ET. If you can’t stay up and watch it all night the nice thing about fite is that instant replays of events are available right away so if you buy the event and want to watch it the next day or whenever its easy to do. You also have lifetime access to any RIZIN event you buy through fite.
Of course there are other ways to watch these things but buying NYE shows for $15 at fite is easy and the stream quality is great and guaranteed to work unlike other ways people watch things.
For sure it is not the same at all. I watch the NYE shows mainly out of tradition. Even with that, I didn’t watch the past couple besides some replay clips the next day because I was not happy with the cards and didn’t feel like doing it.
I think a few years ago when Horiguchi won the BW GP was really the last time I was really happy about what the NYE card was and that by RIZIN standards, its not like I was comparing it to PRIDE/DREAM etc…
That being said I am looking forward to watching this card and the McKee, Pitbull and Horiguchi fights especially.
Relative to this statement, what’s your take on ONE? I think they’re promising with respect to filling the hole that PRIDE left. I was super disappointed they replaced crazy screaming lady Lenne Hardt though. She’s a “one and only”.
Now here is the bout order from the fite.tv site. Only showing the 7 fights excluding the Bellator fights and they say Izawa vs Si Woo Park is the main event. They do this and at the same time use the RIZIN 40 poster that featured the Bellator fighters and also in the event description say “the fight card has well over 7 matches”.
In the past like when Patricky and Horiguchi fought in RIZIN the English fite.tv PPV featured the Bellator fighters fight even though it was also tape delay broadcast on Spike the next day. The way fite.tv is saying Izawa vs Park is the main event makes me concerned this broadcast will geoblock the Bellator vs RIZIN fights if you purchase the event in the US. Like I said, they didn’t do that in the past when Bellator tape delayed portions of the show but its possible this could happen. Why else would they not feature the actual card with Bellator fighters and show it as a 7 fight card?
Don’t want to buy and then get blocked from watching the full card.
Curious the UG’s thoughts on if this PPV will or will not feature the Bellator fights if buying in the US as it don’t look like it but they have never not aired the full RIZIN events in the past.
Ok, I can’t edit the OP but I would if I could. Per the thread link posted above, people are saying Showtime has exclusive rights to broadcast the Bellator fights outside of Japan so the fite.tv PPV is just for the 7 RIZIN fights. There will be no legal way to watch the full card live from the US. There is no way I’m buying the 7 fight card. Not happening.
#1 bullshit.
Leave it to Showtime to fuck up the JMMA NYE tradition.
Lick my nuts Showtime, nobody is gonna watch your broadcast, you are dying.
