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Point is many people for years on here feel that Japan is some hot bed for MMA, the truth is its a fanbase was driven almost solely on cultural stars and not the best fighters fighting the best. Which is one of the biggest reasons why everything related to JMMA is more or less underground and why the bigger orgs over the years has more or less ignored Japan.
You know Randy Couture (then the 3rd-ranked heavyweight) vs. Brock Lesnar (2-1 as a professional) broke a million pay-per-view buys? And Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock III was the highest-rated fight in American history before Kimbo Slice came along? And that the only reason the UFC's not an organization that went bankrupt 11-years ago is cuz' they made a reality show that was like a shitty version of Big Brother?
We Americans really only care about rankings.
It's also moronic to think the false-stereotype of the Japanese being completely fad-obsessed acted in anything more than a tertiary capacity (at best) regarding this sport's post-2007 Japanese-recession.