Bantamweight Contender Bounces Back in Vegas Saturday Evening

Rinya Nakamura made his second walk to the fabled Octagon in 2025 this past weekend inside the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, NV. Nakamura was reeling from a defeat at the hands of Muin Gafurov (20-6 MMA, 2-2 UFC), an alumnus of ONE Championship, by way of unanimous decision after 15 minutes of action this past January at UFC 311 from Intuit Dome.

Nakamura was penciled in for an Aug. 2 fight on the UFC Vegas 108 prelims versus Nathan Fletcher (9-3 MMA, 1-2 UFC) in the latter’s third UFC fight. Rinya Nakamura entered the card at UFC Vegas 108 with a record of 9-1 and 3-1 under the UFC promotional banner.

As is sometimes the case with fights in MMA, if you look away from the screen on your…