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Naofumi Yamamoto (born August 1, 1977) is a Japanese professional wrestler and boxer, better known under the ring name of Yoshi Tatsu (or Yoshitatsu as it's been spelled outside the WWE main roster). Yamamoto began his wrestling career through Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling under his real name from 2002-2007 before being signed to WWE and joining the FCW developmental roster, first using his real last name before eventually changing it to the Yoshitatsu name. He made his official WWE TV debut in 2009 when he defeated Shelton Benjamin in a match on ECW. Since then, Tatsu has remained a lower-card face on WWE, but his career was never really able to take off before he was released and headed back to New Japan.

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!!Trope Hunter:
* ArchEnemy:
** With Tyson Kidd on NXT.
** Wrestling/BulletClub in NJPW
* BullyingADragon: Apparently, Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} used to make racist jokes on Tatsu back when they, along with Wrestling/TedDibiaseJr, were roommates in FCW. One day, Sheamus used a protein mixer that belonged to Tatsu, so the other two had enough of his crap and confronted him along. A physical fight started between Sheamus and Tatsu, and the latter, being a real life amateur wrestler, boxer and jujutsuka, supposedly beat the former so bad that Sheamus was on the verge of crying at the end.
* DemotedToExtra: On ECW he was a number one contender for the title. Once that show was over he became a jobber.
* DidntSeeThatComing: After being released by WWE, Naofumi works the indies for a while and a report comes in he may head back to Japan, no big deal. The Big Deal comes when he appears in the main event of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling's King of Pro Wrestling event he appears out of nowhere and attacks Wrestling/JeffJarrett, stopping him from interfering in the World Title Match and thus helping to ensure Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi's victory over Wrestling/AJStyles.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After being released by WWE he returned to New Japan, but suffered a neck injury in his first match back. He was put on the shelf and went through over a year's worth of therapy and surgery but announced his intention to return to the ring and on his first match back, won the NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi and Michael Elgin, defeating the Wrestling/BulletClub to do so.
* GratuitousEnglish: Wrestling/{{Goldust}} decided to try and teach him better English in exchange for Yoshi teaching him better Japanese.
** ShoutOut: Abraham Washington told him "[[Film/RushHour Don't nobody understand the words that are coming out of your mouth man!]]"
* JapanesePoliteness: Thank You!
* {{Keet}}: Until Tyson Kidd broke his action figure, making him pouty.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Him and Wrestling/{{Goldust}}.
* MadeOfIron: The WWE came down on Goldust after The Pryme Players did a double team
* MaskOfPower: Averted. He has [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_tJInedUjI4/TmldYeQccWI/AAAAAAAAB0s/mX68VxXJmFY/s1600/841.jpg changed his look]]...but he's still essentially a {{Jobber}} and a guy that only sees TV time when a match or promo (e.g. Lumberjack or locker-room-clearing brawl) calls for a lot of bodies.
* MeaningfulRename: Yoshitatsu is his father's given name.
* OneHitKO: His roundhouse kick had this effect on Shelton Benjamin on his debut ECW match.
* PowerTrio: In his early New Japan run, he had Noke Kekki-gun, with Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura and Ryuske Takaguchi.
* RedBaron: World Famous and The Bullet Club Hunter
* SayMyName: Yoshi Tatsu yelled out '''''"[[Wrestling/TysonKidd TAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIISOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!]]"''''' when the latter broke the leg of the former's action figure in their 2011 NXT feud.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Compare the always-chipper and unabashedly honorable card-carrying {{Face}} of his earlier fare to the guy rolling his eyes and remarking "So what?" on commentary about all the talk of [[WorthyOpponent mutual respect]] between Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura and Wrestling/AJStyles prior to their Intercontinental Championship match at Wrestle Kingdom 10.
* SquashMatch: In his WWECW debut he beat [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Shelton Benjamin]] with one kick to the head.
** UnderestimatingBadassery: Shelton [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain spent over a minute mocking his]] JapanesePoliteness and {{Keet}} demeanor, not even taking him remotely seriously until that kick to the head.
* StockForeignName: Well, Yoshi and Tatsu are alone, together not so much (it roughly translates to pretty dragon).
** The WWECW fans would make signs playing with this name. The camera once zoomed in on a kid with a pretty good illustration of a ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' joke.
* TagTeam:
** The New Japan Dragons, with Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi. Ended up reuniting briefly to combat the Wrestling/BulletClub takeover shortly after his WWE exodus.
** In WWE's FCW developmental program he had Movers and Shakers, with [[Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} Sheamus O'Shaunessy]].