RE: 3 questions (longest bout)

[Dale Carlson <drc@oz.net>]

At 08:57 AM 3/24/03 -0500, Buchanan, Michael wrote:

>I don't think this is the longest bout in modern sumo, but the longest
>one I  ever saw was two years ago at the Spring basho.  Kotonowaka beat
>Takatoriki after more than 8 minutes.  Surely there has to be one longer
>than that, though.

Awww, Kotonowaka- his matches take up half my server space :)

There were two very long matches around that time. I posted one in
several parts to the sumo movies website. I missed the other (which I
think happened a basho or two earlier. Wasn't it much longer, like 15
minutes? I want to say that Dejima was involved, but that would be to
suggest that I have a memory, which I don't.

Dale