Mousasi Welcomes His Return to Japan

Gegard Mousasi may be nearly six thousand miles from his home in Leiden, but when he steps into the Octagon at Saitama Super Arena on Saturday to face Uriah Hall, it’s as close to a home game as any non-Japanese fighter is going to get.

“I always enjoy fighting in Japan,” Mousasi, a veteran of 14 bouts in the Land of the Rising Sun, said. “I’ve had good memories and great experiences there, and it’s where my career took off. So I’m more than ready. I know I’m going to put on a good show and get the win.”

What the always-modest Netherlands product fails to point out is that those good memories may have something to do with the fact that in those 14 fights, he won 13 of them, with the only loss…