After coming up short in his first two flyweight appearances under the UFC banner, Kai Asakura is ready to try his hand at bantamweight.
Stepping straight into a 125-pound title fight in his promotional debut last December, Asakura suffered a brutal second-round submission loss against reigning flyweight king Alexandre Pantoja at UFC 310. Eight months later, he’d suffer a similar fate in his sophomore appearance against Tim Elliott.

Now, the former RIZIN champion is making the move up to 135 in a bid to right the ship and finally get back into the win column.