Re: Sentoryu etc.

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

> >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
> 
> I was quite a fan of Nankairyuu at that time. He was an intense fighter, with
> more tsuppari and oshi than yotsu, but with much potential to the later in
> my eyes. He didn't last very long because he got addicted to alcohol; when
> he had to retire, it was cited that he was asked what he liked more, sake or
> sumo, and he peferred sake. Don't know what he is doing now.
> 
> Regards, Martin J. Du"rst.	

Was he still in makuuchi when he retired, or was he on his way down anyways?
-yugo