The UFC makes it long-anticipated return to the land of the rising sun on Feb. 26 for UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson.
The event headlined by the lightweight title bout between Frankie Edgar and Benson Henderson will be the first time that the promotion has appeared in Japan since December 2000 when it held UFC 29: Defense of the Belts in Tokyo.
Though this event will not include some of the historical Japanese fan favorites who are on the UFC, like Wanderlei Silva and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, there are still plenty of reasons to be excited for this huge event. Here are eight of those reasons.