Krush Update: Akihiro Gono to Face Yuya Yamamoto March 19th

Japanese kickboxing promotion Krush has announced that Akihiro Gono will make his return to kickboxing at Krush's Triple Final Round event on March 19th, as he will meet Yuya Yamamoto in a 70kg. superfight.

Yamamoto's inclusion at the event was recently announced and, as promised, Krush relayed the news of his opponent at a press conference Friday, amid the promotion's release of their Krush 2010 DVD.

Nightmare of Battle reports:

K-1 World MAX 2009 Final 4 Yuya Yamamoto’s March 19th "Krush The First Championship Tournament ~Triple Final Round~" superfight opponent was announced at the public press conference today and it is Former All-Japan Kickboxing Heavyweight champion, PRIDE veteran, and recent Lightweight convert Akihiro Gono.

Gono made the move to lightweight at Sengoku Raiden Championship 14, surprising many fans by dropping a wide decision to Mongolian K-1 MAX veteran Jadamba Narantungalag. We know that Narantungalag is no easy opponent though, as highlighted by his background and continued display of skill in knocking out Kazunori Yokota.

For his part, Yamamoto had quite the knockout against Masakazu Watanabe at the earlier Krush event in January. Although Yamamoto is 2-3 in his last five bouts, those losses have come against Giorgio Petrosyan, Hinata, and Yoshihiro Sato. Before encoutering Petrosyan in the K-1 World MAX 2009 Final, Yamamoto held tournament wins against South Korean Chi Bin Lim and the consistently exciting, consistently inconsistent Gago Drago.

The event will of course be headlined by the conclusion of the promotion's three ongoing tournaments, at the 55kg., 60kg., and 63kg. weight limits.