Re: on this day: 1988

["John Racine" <gaijira@tky2.3web.ne.jp>]

> This is the second case that I've come across with Futahaguro being on TV
> post leaving sumo. There was a case on March 13th 1988 in whcih he made a
> guest appearance on a home video show called Kosakin. The same day had
> photos of his hair cutting ceremony.
> link http://www.juryo.com/newspaper/19880308.htm

This article mentions that not even his oyakata came to Futahaguro's
hair-cutting ceremony.

For those of us who weren't following sumo way back then, just exactly what
happened to this guy?  How did he come to "quit sumo in disgrace"?


Sukebeejima