Re: Sentoryu etc.

[abe@kaleida.com (Masumi Abe)]

At  1:11 PM 8/19/94 -0700, Yugo Yodogawa wrote:
>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?)  

Given Name: Henry A Miller
Born: July 16, 1969 in Saint Luis
Hatsu-Dohyo: July, 1988
Size: 176.5 cm, 130 kg
Sumo Type: Oshi (pushing)
Nagoya-basho rank: Makushita Nishi 4-maime
Nagoya-basho record: 5-2
Total record (at the end of Nagoya-basho): 134 wins - 75 losses - 43 yasumi
Blood Type: A

>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.
>
His style is similar to Takatoriki, but his body is slitely smaller than
Takatoriki and more muscular. Takatoriki is 180 cm 144 kg. With his size,
this American wrestler is rather smaller than most of Japanese rikishi. He
was very excited to play against juryo rikishi for the first time with
wearing oh-ichou mage (hair style) only allowed to the rikishi play against
Juryo and Makuuchi rikishi. Nagoya-basho was his first basho to play
against juryo rikishi, and he won.
In spite of his fine performance and his makushita rank, I don't think he
will be promoted to juryo for the next basho. 

I am excited to follow his sumo during Aki-basho in September. If he record
5-2 again or better, I am pretty sure, he will be promoted to Juryo before
Kyushu-basho.
>
>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?

I don't know what happened to him.
Do you remember Ishinriki, sort of a predecessor of Mainoumi, very small
and very quick juryo rikishi? He is a western style professional wrestler
in Japan. Tenryu and Kitao (former Yokozuna Futahaguro) are also playing as
professional wrestlers. 

>-yugo
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