{"id":40743,"date":"2026-09-28T04:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Rinya-Nakamura-makes-vow-I-refuse-to-ever-experience-a-feeling-like-this-again-202984"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:41:19","slug":"rinya-nakamura-makes-vow-i-refuse-to-ever-experience-a-feeling-like-this-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/rinya-nakamura-makes-vow-i-refuse-to-ever-experience-a-feeling-like-this-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinya Nakamura makes vow: \u2018I refuse to ever experience a feeling like this again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rinya-nakamura-makes-vow-i-refuse-to-ever-experience-a-feeling-like-this-again.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Rinya-Nakamura-386855\">Rinya<br \/>\nNakamura<\/a> doesn\u2019t want to relive what he went through against<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Brady-Hiestand-249533\">Brady<br \/>\nHiestand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nakamura (10-2) was a heavy -325 favorite going into his <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> bantamweight fight against<br \/>\nHiestand at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-289-Barcelos-vs-Rosas-Jr-113789\"><br \/>\nUFC Vegas 121<\/a> on Sept. 26 in Las Vegas. However, Hiestand\u2019s<br \/>\nwrestling proved to be too much for Nakamura, who was controlled<br \/>\nbefore being forced to tap to a rear-naked choke in the second<br \/>\nround.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Rinya Nakamura reacts to submission loss against Brady Hiestand<br \/>\nat UFC Vegas 121<\/h2>\n<p>Nakamura vowed to bounce back in a social media post. The<br \/>\n31-year-old said he refuses to experience the feeling of another<br \/>\nloss like the one he suffered against Hiestand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will return having forged a martial arts style that is purer,<br \/>\nmore righteous, more beautiful, and stronger,\u201d Nakamura wrote on<br \/>\nInstagram. \u201cThank you, UFC, for the ultimate stage. I refuse to<br \/>\never experience a feeling like this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nakamura was a highly touted undefeated prospect when he won the<br \/>\nbantamweight bracket of \u201cRoad to UFC\u201d Season 1 in 2023. However,<br \/>\n\u201cHybrid\u201d has since gone 3-2 in the UFC and has dropped two of his<br \/>\nlast three bouts.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ddy3E3CIQLS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.29577464788732\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rinya Nakamura doesn\u2019t want to relive what he went through against Brady Hiestand. Nakamura (10-2) was a heavy -325 favorite going into his Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight fight against Hiestand at UFC Vegas 121 on Sept. 26 in Las Vegas. However, Hiestand\u2019s wrestling proved to be too much for Nakamura, who was controlled before being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}