Kazushi Sakuraba to face Dan Henderson in grappling match at October RIZIN event

[TheEmperorRises]

MMA legends Dan Henderson and Kazushi Sakuraba will finally face off, though we won’t see any “H-Bomb” right hands being thrown.

Instead, they will meet in a grappling rules contest scheduled for Oct. 15 at a RIZIN show in Fukuoka, Japan. The Henderson-Sakuraba exhibition match was announced during the RIZIN Fighting World Grand Prix 2017 1st Round event in Saitama on Sunday, and Sakuraba later celebrated the booking with a shot of himself and Henderson on Instagram:


View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXKgrZtFmsP/


This is essentially a dream match for fans of these two warriors who rose to stardom in Japan’s famed PRIDE organization. Henderson held both the PRIDE welterweight and middleweight titles simultaneously before joining the UFC, while Sakuraba engaged in countless classic battles with member of the Gracie family and various opponents who typically dwarfed him in size.


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Kazushi Sakuraba to face Dan Henderson in grappling match at October RIZIN event

 

[Onetrickpony]

Check out the comments from when they did this on the Rizin thread. It's amusing since we had no clue what the hell was happening. Starts on page 5.

RIZIN Bantamweight Grand Prix: Live Discussion - July 30, 2017 (2:00 am EDT) | Page 6 | TMMAC - The MMA Community Forum

 

[Alexxa Maxx]

 

[RaginCajun]

 

[Hauler]

2 of my favorites.

I'm glad it's a grappling match. I have no desire to see Saku eat a bunch of shots from Hendo.

 

[GSPTrainingInAPool]

Great match up and really fun idea to have this at a Rizin event. They are crushing it imo.

Anyone want to go for a 30 day SN bet? I'll be taking Saku!!

 

[TheEmperorRises]

I'm glad to see they learned from their mistake- Aoki vs Saku is hard to watch and should have been straight grappling. I'm still dying to see Aoki vs Kron in MMA.

 

[Ceiling Fan]

Although we kind of knew something like this was happening when Hendo made an appearance at Rizin.