Word: kuhaulua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jesse Kuhaulua went to Japan from his native Hawaii in 1964, he was a 19-year-old, 253-lb. "skinny" kid with a dream of being a professional sumo wrestler. Eight years later he became the first foreigner to win a sumo tournament and went on to fight in a record 1,654 bouts, making him something of a popular legend. Recently Takamiyama, 39, began to feel the combined effects of time and a string of injuries, losing 13 of his last 15 matches. Last week, confronted with a humiliating down-ranking to the third tier of sumo wrestlers...
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