A lot of current fight fans probably didn’t see what the big deal was. They woke up on Tuesday morning to the news that Norifumi Yamamoto – known almost exclusively as “Kid,” even in the last years of his career – had died after a battle with cancer at age 41. Then they saw the reactions on Twitter, as well as on all the usual websites
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