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RIZIN champ Roberto Satoshi has ‘no want’ to join UFC, would ‘rarely make’ as much funds as in Japan

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Roberto Satoshi scored one of the most quickest wins of his MMA career to trap the inaugural RIZIN combating Federation light-weight gold currently in Tokyo, Japan, surprising himself with how convenient it went against Tofiq Musayev. Musayev turned into on a 14-battle successful streak over the likes of Patricky Pitbull, Johnny Case, Damien Brown and Daron Cruickshank going into RIZIN 28, nevertheless it most effective took seventy two seconds for the Brazilian jiu-jitsu professional to faucet the 2019 grand prix winner with a triangle choke. “i was very apprehensive for this battle, truly,” Satoshi mentioned in an interview with MMA combating. “He become destroying all and sundry in the advertising, beating big-name opponents like Pitbull. i was very worried with this combat, I gained’t deny it. He has top notch spectacular, he became shedding each person along with his heavy palms, but, I don’t know, it changed into his responsibility [to win]. He changed into the man, he became the grand prix champion, so I had no power to win. i used to be comfortable as a result of that.” Satoshi admits he anticipated to locate more resistance in Musayev’s takedown makes an attempt, however directly realized “his hips weren’t that heavy,” and he could be capable of at ease a submission. “He’s interesting on the toes, little doubt about it, but there’s no suit on the floor,” Satoshi referred to. “I feel i will submit anyone on the floor.” The jiu-jitsu professional calls his RIZIN 28 victory his “greatest accomplishment as an athlete,” above all on the grounds that he became the first MMA fighter to win a belt internal the ancient Tokyo Dome because pride: remaining conflict 2003. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira gained the interim heavyweight belt over Mirko Cro Cop that nighttime, with Wanderlei Silva winning the middleweight grand prix with a pair of victories over Hidehiko Yoshida and “Rampage” Jackson. Satoshi considers retiring from jiu-jitsu now that he’s the RIZIN lightweight champion, and hopes to make a name for himself — and a variety of money — in Japan, a place he has called domestic for over a decade. The 31-year-historical doesn’t understand who might be the first to challenge him for the a hundred and fifty five-belt, but expects it to be a Japan-based mostly fighter seeing that the nation nonetheless has shuttle restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Many americans asked me [about fighter pay in Japan] and that i say that RIZIN is like soccer,” he observed. “You’ll have a participant making millions and a person from the equal group and same position making less. It’s about how a lot you sell, which in a method is like the UFC. Thank God I’m promotion the enterprise neatly, my fights always conclusion with finishes, I’m at all times enjoyable the fans. I make respectable [money] in RIZIN, I don't have any need to go to the UFC. i would hardly ever make in the UFC what I make in RIZIN. The japanese MMA market is respectable for me financially [laughs].” greater than good pay, Satoshi says he values the good relationship between fighter and promoter in RIZIN over the testimonies he hears from UFC veterans. “One component i admire very plenty about RIZIN is that I believe the adventure isn’t made for them, it’s made for the athletes,” he said. “I consider essential right here. I don’t consider I’m a man that could lose two fights and they're going to say, ‘Oh, go away, you’re not promoting for guys anymore. Bye.’ and that i suppose that’s the case in the UFC. I’ve seen many properly Brazilian athletes that may combat for the belt once they were smartly and [the UFC] would maintain them. And when they misplaced two or three, they'd say, ‘You’re now not selling, go away. Bye.’ You see proper warring parties that [the UFC] sent letters like, ‘thank you very plenty, but to any extent further you’re now not part of the UFC roster.’ “The cognizance I have here in RIZIN is out of the normal. I’ve received many titles in jiu-jitsu, I’ve won gold medals in lots of tournaments, but, unfortunately, best the jiu-jitsu neighborhood identified me here in Japan. I fought [Sunday] and stopped for a second on my method domestic and 4 or five americans got here to take photographs with me, congratulate me, say they were satisfied that I introduced the belt to Japan. This cognizance is very pleasurable. that would be cool within the UFC, but I believe the japanese viewers, where I reside, where I teach courses, values greater the incontrovertible fact that I’m fighting for RIZIN here in Japan.”

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