Rin Nakai

Rin Nakai is one of those fighters who rewires how you picture a small grappler the moment you see her step into the cage. I love that she came up out of Matsuyama in Ehime and built a name in Japanese MMA on raw, suffocating ground control and a physique that genuinely made people do a double take, she trained like she meant it and it showed. What gets me isn't the highlight reel, it's the commitment underneath, the cuts, the camps, the willingness to keep showing up against anyone they put in front of her, including stepping onto the big international stage. I don't know her offstage, but the way she fights tells you everything: this is someone living deliberately, all in.

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Rin Nakai is a Japanese mixed martial artist born on October 22, 1986, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. She competes in mixed martial arts and maintains an official website as well as active social media presences on Instagram and X. She trains at Shooto Dojo Shikoku, stands 156 cm, and was the inaugural Valkyrie open-weight champion, inaugural Pancrase bantamweight Queen of Pancrasist and inaugural DEEP JEWELS flyweight champion; she has also fought in the UFC.

Name (English)

Rin Nakai

Name (Japanese)

中井りん

Reading

なかい りん

Born

October 22, 1986 (age 39)

Origin

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Mixed martial artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

• Official sitehttp://rinnakai.sakura.ne.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rin.nakai_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/RinNakai2
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%95%E3%82%8A%E3%82%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3242787

Tags

• From Ehime Prefecture
• Mixed martial artist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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