Tony
10-04-2009, 18:43
YouTube - Kid Yamamoto Highlight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfHZ-yhDOs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cagepotato.com%2F&feature=player_embedded)
(Kid Yamamoto highlight reel, y'all. Bounce ta dis.)
As previously rumored (http://www.cagepotato.com/dream-featherweight-gp-field-nearly-complete), former K-1 HERO's champ and #4-ranked featherweight (http://www.cagepotato.com/fighter-rankings/featherweight-3-20-09/) Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Norifumi_Yamamoto) will end a year-and-a-half hiatus at DREAM.9 (May 26th; Yokohama, Japan) when he enters their ongoing featherweight grand prix (http://www.cagepotato.com/dream-7-quick-results-videos), taking an automatic bye to the quarterfinals. Yamamoto hasn't competed since his second-round TKO victory over Rani Yahya at K-1 Premium 2007 Dynamite!! on New Year's Eve 2007, which was his 14th-consecutive win. And it seems like DREAM's organizers have a sense of humor, because they're slotting him against former U.S. wrestling champion Joe Warren (http://www.fightopinion.com/2009/04/09/dream-9-526-yokohama-arena-kid-yamamoto-vs-joe-warren/), who, like Yamamoto (http://www.mmauniverse.com/news/SS3238), was involved in a reputation-injuring marijuana scandal (http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3198698). (Weed is a big no-no over there. Very dishonorable.) May the best pothead (http://www.cagepotato.com/nick-diaz-explains-exactly-how-he-plans-cheat-csac) win? DREAM.9's featherweight GP matchups will be arranged thusly:
Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Joe Warren (http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Joe-Warren-43429)
Masakazu Imanari (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Masakazu_Imanari) vs. Bibiano Fernandes (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Bibiano_Fernandes)
Yoshiro Maeda (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Yoshiro_Maeda) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Hiroyuki_Takaya)
Abel Cullum (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Abel_Cullum) vs. Hideo Tokoro (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Hideo_Tokoro)*
(Kid Yamamoto highlight reel, y'all. Bounce ta dis.)
As previously rumored (http://www.cagepotato.com/dream-featherweight-gp-field-nearly-complete), former K-1 HERO's champ and #4-ranked featherweight (http://www.cagepotato.com/fighter-rankings/featherweight-3-20-09/) Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Norifumi_Yamamoto) will end a year-and-a-half hiatus at DREAM.9 (May 26th; Yokohama, Japan) when he enters their ongoing featherweight grand prix (http://www.cagepotato.com/dream-7-quick-results-videos), taking an automatic bye to the quarterfinals. Yamamoto hasn't competed since his second-round TKO victory over Rani Yahya at K-1 Premium 2007 Dynamite!! on New Year's Eve 2007, which was his 14th-consecutive win. And it seems like DREAM's organizers have a sense of humor, because they're slotting him against former U.S. wrestling champion Joe Warren (http://www.fightopinion.com/2009/04/09/dream-9-526-yokohama-arena-kid-yamamoto-vs-joe-warren/), who, like Yamamoto (http://www.mmauniverse.com/news/SS3238), was involved in a reputation-injuring marijuana scandal (http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3198698). (Weed is a big no-no over there. Very dishonorable.) May the best pothead (http://www.cagepotato.com/nick-diaz-explains-exactly-how-he-plans-cheat-csac) win? DREAM.9's featherweight GP matchups will be arranged thusly:
Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Joe Warren (http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Joe-Warren-43429)
Masakazu Imanari (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Masakazu_Imanari) vs. Bibiano Fernandes (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Bibiano_Fernandes)
Yoshiro Maeda (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Yoshiro_Maeda) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Hiroyuki_Takaya)
Abel Cullum (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Abel_Cullum) vs. Hideo Tokoro (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Hideo_Tokoro)*