hmmm should be a good fight kid has this in the bag though. JB has a great ground game though so not to take anything from him i don't think he is ready for kid.
Sounds like a gimme fight to Kid although I've never heard of Joseph Benavidez before so I don't really know how good he is.
I'm kinda suprised DREAM couldn't find a bigger name fighter for Kid, but I guess if the fight is at 35, they don't really have much competition to choose from.
Lotus, you sound like you've seen Benavidez..., how do you see the fight playing out?
never seen but i have heard of him he's got good subs and a decent stand up game but he will be completely overwhelmed in this fight, just not ready for someone like kid.
Makes me mad we have to wait till the end of July, but never the less happy Kid gets to whip some ass. I don't think this fight will go to the ground. I think Kid will want to throw with JB and each time that JB wants to go the ground Kid can stop him from taking him down. Kids got too much to get beat by this guy.
Just thinking, since DREAM has Kid, how cool would it be if they had some sort of 145 GP? Bring in Hioki, Pato, Tamura, Sato, Lion, Imanari and Mishima and have them go all out. Of course, Kid would be in the GP, too.
I don't really know why this is being seen as a serious fight. I think KID will take this by sprawl and brawl. He's got the better striking of the two guys, and he's got by far the better wrestling, so I don't think that this guy is going to get this to the ground (where it looks like he wants it).
I am sick of Kid living off poor match ups.
Time to get to the states and in to UFC which has an amazing LW division at the moment..... and non of this " but kids a feather weight" crap, he has been fighting lightweights for years.
Yea dude I know it's hard to believe, but get this: Kid's not actually a bionic superhuman like what was once believed. He is in fact, just a normal human. A side effect of this is that he ages, and fighting guys 2 weight classes above you all the time is actually not that good for you, as opposed to fighting guys your own weight. Shocking, I know, but true.
Also, the LWs in the UFC walk in at around 160-170 usually anyway. Kid don't need to be effing with that kinda shit at this point in his career. Just be happy it lasted as long as it did (him fighting lightweights I mean).
Hell yea my boy gonna be makin it to 18-1 here soon. Guess I shouldn't get too confident, anything can happen. But damn, it's Nori we're talkin about here, and he's fighting "some dude". Should be a good one, like usual.
BTW, damn. I can't believe how many Kid avy's and sigs are being sported all the sudden. Back a few months ago I think I was one of the only guys on here sportin a Kid pic. Nice to see some MMAforum'ers RECKONIZE Nori for the lil beast he is :thumb02:
That whole tournament and other fights at 155-160 were a one time thing for Yamamoto, really just a ridiculous pay day and he was more than capable of doing (at the time)
Can't wait to see Norifumi whip some ass again. I wish he'd start fighting more regularly again. Wonder if they'll just give him the DREAM Featherweight Championship, since they're obviously not going to have a Featherweight tournament to decide the champion.
I would really love to see some of these badass Japanese LWs come over to the UFC. It would be nice.
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