Re: [sumo] Hnery Miller [Sentoryu] in Pride Fighting

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 11:21 AM -0400 04.4.22, Robert Hovestadt wrote:
> 4/21/2004 2:44:00 PM
> Mike Coughlin looks at the Pride Grand Prix tournament first round
>
> This Sunday, Pride FC presents the opening round of the 16 man 2004
> heavyweight Grand Prix.
(megasnip)

> Fight 6: Giant Silva vs. Sentoryu (sumo wrestler Henry Miller)
>
> This is the dumbest match on a Pride card in some time, and sadly, that's
> saying something. In the most perverse way possible, I'm DYING to see this
> fight. It will be the very definition of "freak show" and it could end up as
> the highest rated segment of the night. Silva is not a fighter and Miller is
> a past his prime sumo, but it's not like sumo has ever shown any
> effectiveness inside MMA. This is just a really tall dude with no skill
> fighting a really fat dude with no skill.


Hooo boy! --- "really fat dude with no skill ???"  What's the betting this 
man has never seen even a picture of Sentoryu? -- who has always been a 
fitness freak, exercising right up to the top of his capability -- solid 
muscle and no fat on a short stocky frame. And since his retirement from 
sumo Henry's been training hard for his Pride debut. Of course, changing 
disciplines is a big step, and the injuries that plagued his sumo career 
caused permanent damage, especially to the knee -- but this is no Akebono 
stumbling about in K1.

If ever an article was written from stereotyping and not from personal 
knowledge, this sounds like it.


~Doreen Simmons
     <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>~
[EndPost by Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]