Card for UFC 144 in Japan is now complete

The highly awaited return of the UFC in Japan, scheduled for February 26, has finally taken full form as the UFC finalized the remaining bouts.

The event which will take place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between number one contender Ben "Smooth" Henderson and Champion Frankie "The Answer" Edgar.

The full UFC 144 card:

UFC Lightweight Championship: Frankie Edgar vs. Benson Henderson

Quinton Jackson vs. Ryan Bader

Cheick Kongo vs. Mark Hunt

Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Jake Shields

Anthony Pettis vs. Joe Lauzon

Yushin Okami vs. Tim Boetsch

Riki Fukuda vs. Steve Cantwell

Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Vaughan Lee

Takeya Mizugaki vs. Chris Cariaso

Takanori Gomi vs. George Sotiropoulos

Hatsu Hioki vs. Bart Palaszewski

Tiequan Zhang vs. Leonard Garcia

The card looks really great and there are a lot of potential fights that could go for fight of the night honors.

I can't wait for this card to come, then again I always can't wait for the next UFC event that comes around.