Takanori Gomi and Yushin Okami say they won’t single-handedly revive Japanese MMA, but they’ll try to represent it well as long as they fight inside the octagon.
The UFC imports both won big this past Sunday at UFC on Versus 2 and were asked about the the sport’s apparent struggles in their home country.
“I think we’ve shown that you can give us any stage – you can give us the UFC stage, whatever you want – and the Japanese fighting world will acquit itself well,” Okami said.