Here’s Akiyama vs. Carl Toomey at Hero’s 2. Akiyama’s typically epic entrance lasts longer than the fight. Way to serve up your arm to a judo black belt Toomey…might as well have gift wrapped it:
Entrance:

Fight:

Las Vegas icon Norm Clarke (@Norm_Clarke on The Twitter) reminds us of Andrea Bocelli’s appearance at the MGM in Las Vegas this weekend:
Bocelli is at mgm grand saturday. That voice could melt glaciers.

For those of you unfamiliar with Norm’s place in the Las Vegas pantheon of movers and shakers, he’s known for his iconic eye [...]

Here’s some video of Yoshihiro Akiyama making an appearance at the Mool Sool Won School in Los Angeles:
First of all, here’s Akiyama demonstrating some judo throws on a couple of the adult instructors:

followed by a sweet video of him messing around with a little kid:

We’ve got our share of Korean and other ethnic grocery stores here in Portland but, man, they don’t get ‘A listers’ like Yoshihiro Akiyama to do in-store promos:

Here’s Akiyama and Belfort being interviewed on the local news in Los Angeles:

Congrats to ‘Sexyama’ who has landed himself a very hot wife:

Here’s a brief training video featuring Akiyama’s Team Cloud:

Video basically consists of Akiyama looking cool and no doubt discoursing on the difficulty of simultaneously being as cool as Dean Martin and a serious badass. You’ll envy Akiyama even more when you see the hotties he’s linked with the Korean tabloids:

No idea what is going on here, but Akiyama’s presence alone makes it cool. Note to self–buy some v-neck t shirts:

This may be the best Akiyama entrance video ever, before his infamous K-1 Dynamite fight against the legendary Kazushi Sakuraba. This video is in killer high quality with no announcers prattling on to spoil the majesty of Akiyama’s entrance: