Rua, Griffin fight to stay in UFC's elite

Several UFC 134 fighters, including Silva, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira, Stanislav Nedkov and Okami, competed in Pride or other Japanese promotions. But critics of the Japanese circuit such as Sonnen and White dismiss some fight records from Japan as overrated and inflated by inferior competition.
To White, Okami is the exception. Okami's 10-2 UFC record is by far the best for any Japanese athlete in the organization.
"Yushin Okami's the best fighter to ever come out of Japan," White says. "This guy didn't come up fighting cans and get this built-up, mythological record. ... This guy hasn't got the credit he deserves."
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