Tokyo
Japan
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Legendary Mongolian superstar sumo wrestler Asashoryu retires after bar room brawl when in a drunken fracas the sumo star broke the nose of a Japanese man

Asashōryū Akinori
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Asashoryu
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朝青龍 明徳
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Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj
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Dolgorsürengiin Dagvadorj
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Долгорсүрэнгийн Дагвадорж

Features :-

• Retires at 29 years of age

• The first Mongolian who rose to the lofty prestigious elite level of Yokozuna

• Only the 68th wrestler in history to reach Yokozuna

• Winner of 25 top division tournament championships

• First winner of Honbasho of all six official tournaments in a single year

• Surrounded by sublime skills mixed with many misdemeanors which in the end have brought about his fall from grace

He will be missed in the Sumo world as he had supreme skill and he could always hit the headlines both for Sumo and a raft of controversies from bans, suspensions for playing football, when he should have been sumo wrestling et al

Retired February 4, 2010

Asashoryu is still young will he move into another MMA or simlar contact sport

Watch this space …


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Japan

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