With the UFC in the midst of a nine-week stretch featuring a fight card every Saturday and nearly seven months into an annual calendar that will deliver more than 40 events into the Octagon this year, you can understand how fans and observers can sometimes have a little difficulty remembering the names of the latest emerging talent to make an impression from time to time.
Thankfully for 23-year-old lightweight upstart Nasrat Haqparast, his name is not one that is easy to forget and just in case that wasn’t enough, there is one other helpful way of remembering him: just look for the four-fifth scale version of Kelvin Gastelum.