Amateur Sumo fixed matches

["Wahl, françois" <Wahl@atge.automail.com>]

No there is almost no such things in amateur Sumo.
Most people pay their own way to go to championships and I cannot imagine
why they would fix a match.
There is an instance however when it had happened.
In a team of three when the two first sumoka of a team have won , the third
match is useless.If this Sumoka do not fight , he is considered as injured
and cannot fight subsequent figfhts.He can be replaced by a substitute but
then if one of the three is injured the team must end up with two fighters
-since the rule says that there is only one substitute- instead of three.So
if we are in a situation of 2-0 the third one might perform a "fixed" match
to keep his energy for the rest of the competition.
Apart than that I never heard of a fixed match so far even between two
brothers.
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