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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 …
Address and Contact Data
Yokozuna
Japan
http://sumo.goo.ne.jp/eng/kiroku_daicho/mei_yokozuna/rekidai.html
Happened on February 04, 2010
Topics: News: Arts and Culture: Culture
Listed on February 05, 2010 03:31:39 AM
Last updated on July 29, 2010 11:20:57 PM
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