RE: [sumo] Asashoryu in NYC photos

[Knut Högvall <knutte@bigfoot.com>]

Well, I didn't say I didn't accept it? And you have made it quite qlear that
you, personally, (plus some sumo journalists) think it's nothing but pure
entertainment. I think it's entertaining, too, otherwise I wouldn't be
watching it. But calling it *only* entertainment is another matter
completely. But I accord you the privilege of thinking whatever you like, I
just don't agree.

But that wasn't what I was asking in the first place: Would the *rikishi*
like being called entertainers? And if not, which I gather is your point,
why would they object to being called wrestlers? They do entertain, so
they're entertainers, right? Well, they *do* wrestle, so then they're
wrestlers, no?

- Heiyu

> > Would he like being called an entertainer?
> >
> > - Heiyu
> >
> > > don't call a RIKISHI a wrestler. He won't like that.
> > >
> > > Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts!
> > >
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> >
> > [EndPost by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Knut_H=F6gvall?= <knutte@bigfoot.com>]
> 
> =========
> 
> Akebono was once asked about his life. He said, "It's great. 
> Sometimes we get invited to parties, stand around looking 
> pretty and then get big fat envelopes. Not a bad life."
> 
> Why can't you accept this? Akebono does.
> 
> A friend of mine, a journalist with one of the big Japanese 
> sports dailies also said to me, as he led me and my pals 
> (actually the two of us and our
> girlfriends) to our MASUSEKI seats, "SUMO is not a sport. 
> It's entertainment. Many bouts are fixed." He used the 
> English word entertainment and the Japanese word YAOCHO.
> 
> Why can't you accept this? SUMO journalists do.
> 
> SUMO IS THE WORLD.
> 

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