Re: Itai on CNN

["Da Kine Sumo E-zine & Web site from Kawika" <dakinesumo@hotmail.com>]

A statement without facts to back it up is "Irrelevant."  I should know, I 
am been know to say some irrelevant things just for the sake of argument.  
Perhaps that is what you are trying to do here.

Please present your proof that the 'Mafia' is behind the rigging of sumo 
bouts.

If you had any of the "Irrelevant" experiences I listed you might understand 
that yaocho is an agreement between two sumo wrestlers, for the benefit of 
keeping or gaining rank, exchanging favors, or exchanging cash.

Not once as the subject of Mafia involvement be raised in the recent press 
release.

Please share with us your sources.

ALOHA!



From: "RJ Friedman" <rjf@comasia.com>
>Reply-To: "RJ Friedman" <rjf@comasia.com>
>To: "sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
>Subject: Re: Itai on CNN
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 14:46:28 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 06:14:17 GMT, Da Kine Sumo E-zine & Web site from
>Kawika wrote:
>
> >Have you even met a yakazu?
>
>Irrelevant.
>
> >Have you ever gambled in Japan?
>
>Irrelevant
>
> >Have you ever spoken to an actual sumo wrestler about yaocho?
>
>Irrelevant.
>
> >Come on, who is being naive?
>
>You are if you think that it takes two to yaocho and that there are
>no bouts that are fixed to profit the mob gambling interests.
>
> >Bout fixing is a form of a) making pocket money and b) exchanging favors.
> >Itai did not mention anything about fixing bouts for the 'mafia'.  
>Please.
>
>I wasn't referring to Itai in particular - simply to your contention
>that "it takes two to yaocho," and to the prior poster's question as
>to how/why one rikishi could know that there was a yaocho bout while
>his opponent wasn't aware of it.
>
>

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