Date: Saturday February 25, 2012
Venue: Saitama Super Arena
City: Saitama, Japan
Main card
Lightweight Championship bout: Frankie Edgar vs. Ben Henderson
Light Heavyweight bout: Quinton Jackson vs. Ryan Bader
Heavyweight bout: Mark Hunt vs. Cheick Kongo
Welterweight bout: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Jake Shields
Middleweight bout: Yushin Okami vs. Tim Boetsch
Featherweight bout: Hatsu Hioki vs. Bart Palaszewski
Lightweight bout: Anthony Pettis vs. Joe Lauzon
Preliminary card (FX)
Lightweight bout: Takanori Gomi vs. Eiji Mitsuoka
Bantamweight bout: Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Vaughan Lee
Middleweight bout: Riki Fukuda vs. Steve Cantwell
Bantamweight bout: Takeya Mizugaki vs. Chris Cariaso
Preliminary card (Facebook)
Featherweight bout: Zhang Tiequan vs. Issei Tamura
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UFC 144 is overseas which would normally mean that we, here in the U.S., wouldn't be able to watch the PPV at its usual 10pm EST slot. That is not the case this time around though. The event is still taking place at the same time which means the fights are actually taking place Sunday morning on location.