Alexandre Pantoja vs Kai Asakura Picks and Prediction – 12/8/2024

Alexandre Pantoja will make the walk Saturday for a flyweight championship matchup at UFC 310. Pantoja is a 5 foot five 125 LB fighter who has been a flyweight for the entirety of his 17 year professional career. Fighting out of Coconut Creek, FL Pantoja fights with American top team. A black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu, Pantoja has amassed 28 wins through 33 professional fights. For other UFC action see our UFC Picks.

Pantoja comes into Saturday with 28 wins and five losses as a professional riding a six fight win streak and has defended the UFC flyweight championship twice since December of last year. 18 of the 28 wins for Pantoja have come via the stoppage in his professional career with the last being a neck crank submission in July of 2022 against Alex Perez. Prior to debuting in the UFC Pantoja amassed 18 total fights and won sixteen of them including 9 in a row before his UFC debut.

Kai Asakura willl make the walk Saturday for the 26th time as a professional. Standing 5 foot 8 inches tall weighing 134 lbs Asakura has spent time as a flyweight, bantamweight, and catch weight fighter in a 12 year professional career. Fighting out of Tokyo Japan Asakura fights under the banner of Japan top team. 

In 25 professional fights Asakura has amassed 21 wins and four losses coming into Saturday having won five of the last six overall following a TKO of Juan Archuleta at Rizin 45. Saturday will be the first fight for Asakura in the UFC after dominating the bantamweight division in Rizin. Asakura left Rizin as the Bantamweight champion after his victory in December of last year.