How to watch RIZIN.26 LIVE on New Year’s Eve

RIZIN.26 will be taking place on December 31st (Thur) at the Saitama Super Arena. RIZIN continues to deliver the tradition of hosting MMA events on New Year’s Eve. RIZIN 26 will be streamed internationally with English commentary provided by play by play commentator Joe Ferraro and color commentator Frank Trigg.

To watch this event for a low price of $24.99 on LIVENow you can go here. LIVENow is home to amazing live experiences and aims to entertain, engage, and educate. Sports, concerts, workouts, stand-up comedy, inspirational speakers, and more are broadcast to screens around the world. Passionate about sharing events as they happen, LIVENow gives fans exclusive access to live-streams that can be enjoyed at home and with
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RIZIN Bantamweight Champion Kai Asakura takes on former RIZIN and BELLATOR Bantamweight Champion Kyoji Horiguchi in the most anticipated rematch in Japanese history. Alos on the card we will see top ranked Ayaka Hamasaki and Miyuu Yamamoto face off for the vacant women’s Super Atomweight Championship title.

Japanese MMMA tradition will continue as RIZIN has finalized the fight card for the promotion’s last event of the year which will be held on New Year’s Eve. The full fight card will consist of 16 bouts with 2 world title fights, electrifying matchups with a variety of rule sets.

RIZIN.26 costs £17.99/$25 and starts at 0500GMT/2100PST on LIVENow.
Events broadcast by LIVENow include:

  • Australia vs India Men’s International Test Cricket and BBL
  • Ellie Goulding’s “Brightest Blue”, Dua Lipa’s “Studio 2054”, Pete Tong “O Come All Ye Ravers” and Gorillaz’ “Song
  • Machine Live from Kong” concerts
  • One World: Together At Home concert in support of the World Health Organisations Covid-19 relief efforts
  • Top European football leagues including Serie C, La Liga and FA Cup
  • USL regular season
  • Regular matches from the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan
  • UK Pro Tennis Series, Classic Week
  • Financial Time’s Business of Football Summit

Remember, to watch this event for a very low price of $24.99 you will need to go here to purchase this historic PPV event and watch it on New Year’s Eve. LIVENow was founded by Leeds United chairman and founder of Aser Ventures, Andrea Radrizzani.

Full fight card:

  • Kai Asakura vs Kyoji Horiguchi – 61kg RIZIN Bantamweight Championship (Elbows allowed)
  • Tenshin Nasukawa vs Kumandoi Phetjaroenvit – RIZIN Kickboxing Rules
  • Mikuru Asakura vs Satoshi Yamasu – 68kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Takanori Gomi vs Kouzi – RIZIN Special Standing bout Rules
  • Ayaka Hamasaki vs Miyuu Yamamoto – 49kg RIZIN Super Atomweight Championship
  • Yuki Motoya vs Naoki Inoue – 61kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Kyle Aguon vs Kleber Koike – 67kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Kyohei Hagiwara vs Ren Hiramoto – 68kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Hideo Tokoro vs Shinobu Ota – 61kg RIZIN MMA Rules
  • Nadaka Yoshinari vs Phetmalai Phetjaroenvit – 50kg RIZIN Kickboxing Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Ulka Sasaki vs Kenta Takizawa – 61kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Kanna Asakura vs Ai Shimizu – 49kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • X vs Shibatar
  • Kazuma Kuramoto vs Taiyo Nakahara – 63kg RIZIN MMA Rules (Elbows allowed)
  • Sudario Tsuyoshi vs Minowaman – 120kg RIZIN MMA Rules
  • Sakura vs Eru Takebayashi – 51.0kg RIZIN MMA Rules