Sentoryu etc.

[Yugo Yodogawa <yyy@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>]

I got a chance to watch the Sumo Digests from the most recent Nagoya basho, and
they showed 3 or 4 bouts with Sentoryu (even though he's still in Makushita).
He's got quite an upper body with a lot of muscle, but the thing that struck
me is that he's not that big, perhaps around 140 kg at 180 cm. (These are my
guesses, does anyone know for sure?)  It's refreshing to see a "gaijin" (he is
an American citizen, right?) that isn't huge and physically overpowering in
the manner of the Hawaiians and it should be interesting to see how he does as
a rikishi.  He's got some speed, too, and a tsuppari-type attack; kind of
reminds me of Takatoriki, I suppose.


Speaking of foreign-born rikishi, I was just looking through a sumo magazine
and noticed that there used to be a rikishi a few years ago named Nankairyu
(I think) from Western Samoa.  He made it to Maegashira 2, but had a very
brief career.  Can someone tell me what he was like and why he didn't last
very long?
-yugo