Yuki Nakai (中井祐樹, Nakai Yūki) is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist. He currently teaches shoot wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and is the president of the Japanese Confederation of Jiu-Jitsu. He competed in Shooto, a proto-MMA promotion, as well as Vale Tudo Japan 1995, where he was outweighed by every opponent in the tournament. Despite this, and despite suffering a severe eye injury in the first bout, Nakai managed to make it to the finals where he lost to Rickson Gracie. Nakai is considered a legend of Shooto by many fighters and fans.
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18 August 1970 (age 54) Hokkaidō, Japan
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Zodiac | Leo |
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