After winning against Costas Philippou at UFC: Manila, Gegard Mousasi campaigned for a bout at the promotion's event in Japan later this year. After a hilarious twitter mix up where he thought Dana White wanted to fight him in the card, Mousasi was assured he will get that return to Japan he wanted.
As for his opponent for the September event, he wants it to be against recent middleweight title challenger Vitor Belfort. He's called him out before, and he's doing it again now. The #6 ranked 185 lber took to twitter about it:
The UFC's return to the Saitama Super Arena happens on September 26, and it will be headlined by Josh Barnett vs.