Strong Style Spirit reports that New Japan Pro Wrestling wrestler Naofumi Yamamoto is signing with WWE. Yamamoto has been away from Japan for some time now and has spent much of his time at WWEs developmental territory in Tampa, FL. Yamamoto returned to the NJPW offices yesterday and announced he was leaving the company to join WWE. Source: WRESTLESCOOP.COM :: WWE Signs Top Japanese Wrestler?
this would be pretty cool. while i havent seen any of his stuff before, i like the japanesse brand of wrestling i would like to see it incooporated into wwe
Naofumi Yamamoto in action (he's the clean-shaven fella): [ame="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3agqp_naofumi-yamamoto-vs-hirooki-goto_extreme"]Dailymotion - Naofumi Yamamoto vs Hirooki Goto, a video from BigBoss54. Naofumi, Yamamoto, vs., Hirooki, Wrestling@@AMEPARAM@@http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x3agqp@@AMEPARAM@@x3agqp[/ame]