Re: [sumo] More WakaTaka after the Kyokai Service

[Joe Petrow <joepetrow@gmail.com>]

Trying to set a record for most consecutive "Joe" posts on Sumo-ML...

On 6/16/05, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com> wrote:
> Jeanne Hedge wrote:
> > He's just another egomaniac prima donna sports star running amok, just one
> > of many around the world and nothing special at all.  I'm sure his beloved
> > the sumo association is quite proud of him. Yeah boy, now *there's* a guy
> > that people in the sumo world should look up to and emulate.
> 
>        For what little my opinion is on this, I think that Taka is doing more
> to hurt Sumo than Chad did.  At least when he started acting stupid (or
> whatever you want t call his K-1 career) he wasn't pretending to still
> be a Yokozuna or Oyakata.

Sure he's still pretending to be a yokozuna.  He's got "65" and
figures of a yokozuna on his ring attire (and I think tattooed someone
on him as well).  He parlayed his fame into a Wrestlemania "sumo"
match.  He certainly isn't letting anyone forget his past as he
continues to cash in on it.

  - Joe

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