Re: on this day: 1988

[Charles Beauchamp <beauking1@yahoo.com>]

--- Rowan Klein <rowanchan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Mainichi Daily News, Tuesday 5th April 1988
> 
> Hawaiian Rowan To Be 'Taro Akebono'
> 
>     Eighteen year old novice Hawaiian sumo wrestlers
> Chad Haaho Rowan, known 
> as Daiki in his "maezumo" (preliminary) bouts in the
> March tournament, will 
> change his sumo name to Taro Akebono starting in the
> May summer tournament.
>     Rowan, who is the tallest sumo wrestler at 200
> centimeters and weighs 
> 160 kilograms, will be ranked in the jonokuchi
> division, sumo's lowest 
> category, in the summer tourney, which will begin
> May 8 at the Ryogoku Sumo 
> Arena.
> 

Good kid.  Needs to work on technique.  I think he
might just make it pretty far. <G>

v/r Beau

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