What a weird day
so many false starts... A Ric Flair's worth of blood... And Takayasu v Hoshoryu, wow. Surely ozeki promotion beckons, and in a post Hakuho world maybe even yokozuna..?
I'm gutted for Ura. What's happened to him? I guess he's become predictably unpredictable like Enho and Takanoyama before him, but he's huge compared to them... Perhaps he's too eager to leave his feet and doesn't want to punish his knees in belt battles..?
Tochi is surprising the hell out of me. For the last few years he's just been going for the front push/lift out, and falling back on that shitty head pull, and that's it. Now all of a sudden he's a kung fu superhero.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 14:38,
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What was Takayasu thinking sending Hoshoryu on that early?
The thing about Ura is, they always try to walk it in.
(, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 14:51, Reply)
Remember though it's a game of 15 halfs.
Ura must be sick as a parrot having lost 8 matches without winning, other than the one he won, and if he'd won today, that would have been another victory. But this evening is a very different evening from the morning we will have had tomorrow morning.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 16:58,
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Man, I love a bit of Esoteria. As I get older though, I get increasingly upset by the brain damage boxing causes. It's hard to know if the Sumo's diet is equally as dangerous?
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That's not a simple question to answer.
On the face of it, sumo is safer, imo. You don't have to be a giant wall of fat, and you're more likely to retire without significant brain damage.
A lot of sumo wrestlers from the 1980s onwards would not look out of place in strongman or weightlifting competitions. The superheavyweights are becoming rarer.
Supposedly the average life expectancy of a sumo wrestler is 65, but I can't find an official statistic backing that up. Of the reported deaths last year the average age was 68.125 (82, 86, 67, 76, 60, 71, 47, 56, not including Hibikiryu who died from a head injury in the ring aged 28), so not great. That was a covid year of course.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 19:38,
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Yes, and without living out their Golden years with Parky. I like Sumo. Bloody hard to get a ticket though W.Wonky.
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