Keita Nakamura built quite a career for himself in his home country of Japan after an 0-3 stint in the UFC from 2006 to 2008. Eighteen fights, fourteen wins, a couple titles. It was a nice run.
But when approached to fight in the UFC once more in 2015, it was an offer he couldn’t refuse if he wanted to truly show the fighter he had become.
“One of my important objectives has been that in order to showcase what I’m truly capable of to the public, I needed to come back and fight again under the banner of the best MMA organization in the world, which is, of course, UFC,” Nakamura said.