Back to the MMA Newsfeed

RIZIN champ Roberto Satoshi has ‘no desire’ to join UFC, would ‘hardly make’ as much money as in Japan

Roberto Satoshi scored one of the fastest wins of his MMA career to capture the inaugural RIZIN Fighting Federation lightweight gold recently in Tokyo, Japan, surprising himself with how easy it went against Tofiq Musayev.

Musayev was on a 14-fight winning streak over the likes of Patricky Pitbull, Johnny Case, Damien Brown and Daron Cruickshank going into RIZIN 28, but it only took 72 seconds for the Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist to tap the 2019 grand prix winner with a triangle choke.

“I was very nervous for this fight, actually,” Satoshi said in an interview with MMA Fighting.