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Related: About this forumHakuho loses!
OMG amazing sumo tournament in Kyushu!
Here is a great YouTube channel for watching sumo
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsyhbQggi0M3t_DMePOLgSw
I'll post todays video as soon as it's up. Stunning
Who is Hakuho? Greatest Sumo wrestler of modern times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuhō_Shō
Tournament winner was Harumafuji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harumafuji_Kōhei
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I was at a coin show in Tokyo one day, sitting at a dealer's table examining his wares, when suddenly this really big guy sat down next to me. And there was someone beside him, explaining to him about coins. When he left, the dealer asked me, "Do you know who that was?"
"No, who was it?"
"That was Asashoryu, sumo grand champion!"
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Asashōryū Akinori (朝青龍 明徳?, born 27 September 1980, as Dolgorsürengiin Dagvadorj, Mongolian Cyrillic: Долгорсүрэнгийн Дагвадорж ) is a Mongolian former sumo wrestler (rikishi). He was the 68th yokozuna in the history of the sport in Japan and became the first Mongol to reach sumo's highest rank in January 2003. He was one of the most successful yokozuna ever. In 2005 he became the first wrestler to win all six official tournaments (honbasho) in a single year. Over his entire career, he won 25 top division tournament championships, placing him fourth on the all-time list.
From 2004 until 2007, Asashōryū was sumo's sole yokozuna, and was criticized at times by the media and the Japan Sumo Association for not upholding the standards of behaviour expected of a holder of such a prestigious rank.[3] He became the first yokozuna in history to be suspended from competition in August 2007 when he participated in a charity soccer match in his home country despite having withdrawn from a regional sumo tour claiming injury. After a career filled with a multitude of other controversies, both on and off the dohyō, his career was cut short when he retired from sumo in February 2010 after allegations that he assaulted a man outside a Tokyo nightclub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asashōryū_Akinori