http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/10/norifumi-kid-yamamoto-michihiro-omigawa-sign-with-ufc

Gonna be awesome to see either of those guys vs Aldo, great signs by the UFC.

Not good news for Japan MMA.

cem_ea_id.Hairybuddhatank wrote:Not good news for Japan MMA.

This^. I'm sad.

now what they gonna fight twice and get shafted cause there asian? lame

ps3.B_A_N_E wrote:now what they gonna fight twice and get shafted cause there asian? lame

You expecting them to lose those 2 fights (if theres only 2)? Because thats the only way I can see them getting cut. And if they do lose their 1st 2 fights, then yeah, they probably should get cut because they obviously would have proven that they couldn't hang at that point -especially being that they most likely wouldn't be fighting the top guys right away either.

Stop trying to pre-judge just because its 'Zuffa' related. They might turn out to be just fine. Its not like Gomi got ousted after his debut loss to Florian lol.

even if they win they will get shafted on title shots and the like, is what i meant

ps3.B_A_N_E wrote:even if they win they will get shafted on title shots and the like, is what i meant

So you expected Okami,Sudo,Gomi,Akiyama,Mishima to all get title shots just because they were from Japan? I don't get what you're trying to imply there.What Japanese guys have been shafted for a title shot other than Okami? Yet you can't even say he gets shafted when he loses every oppertunity to get a shot.

If you're saying guys who fought in Japan and came over that got shafted, again did you expect everyone to get title shots with no fights or after one win?

Hell Shogun was on a fast track but lost to Forrest
Nogueira got the interim belt in his second fight
Wanderlei fought Liddell and lost his first fight
Hendo had a belt unification against Rampage and lost, then lost to Anderson for the MW belt
Cro Cop was meant to get fast tracked too but got ko'ed by Gonzaga

These Japan MMA guys were looked after very well.

I think you're just trying to make excuses for quite a fair amount of guys who fought in Japan to coming to UFC and not doing so well.

im pumped to see kid in the ufc, there's some great matchups for him there... lots of good exposure too, he's not that well known here in the states but he's definatly one of the best fw's in the world, id love to see him and aldo go at it