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Those gods--who rule the Japan Sumo Association--have long felt that there has been a bit too much foreign infusion. Indeed, in the past two years, the only wrestler to hold the highest sumo rank of yokozuna has been Asashoryu, a 25-year-old sensation from Mongolia (where he was born Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj). Asashoryu has won the past six grand sumo tournaments, and he appears to be on track to win his seventh, which would be a record. One of the most popular up-and-comers today is Kotooshu, 22, a Bulgarian (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov) with quick feet...
...Japan's pro league who, at his peak, weighed 345 lbs. He came out of retirement to compete, bulking up with an old sumo trick: eat chanko nabe, a rich stew, then promptly go to sleep. But size ultimately matters less than technique--there are 70 moves a wrestler can use to get his opponent out of the ring. "I'm a pusher, a thruster," says Kaleo, who fights for Japan. "I come out like a boo rush." An all-American sumo to watch is Yale graduate and math teacher Kena Heffernan. "He's a very exciting wrestler...
When discussing the acting in this movie, most critics would focus on bashing The Rock, noting his previous career as a professional wrestler, discussing his tremendous back muscles (of which we are treated to a thirty second close-up early in the film) and comparing his performance to his admittedly horrible turn in “The Scorpion King...
...different. A handful of street artists has even parlayed the popularity of their images into design or merchandising businesses. Fifteen years ago, pioneer Shepard Fairey, 35, hit upon what may be the best known of all street-art images, a black-and-white face of the late professional wrestler Andre the Giant with OBEY printed beneath. In a world in which we all feel subordinate to something, it was the ultimate generic image of creepy domination. It's now on T shirts, bags and a belt buckle that has been spotted on Ashton Kutcher. Today Fairey has a graphic-design...
...Suddenly audiences could not be counted upon to treat a given wrestler automatically as a villain simply because he was identified as a Russian,” Cantor observes. And the World Wrestling Federation’s new bad-boy of the early 1990s, a pro-apartheid white South African character named Colonel DeBeers, failed to rouse audiences?...