The Terrific Fight ..... Fair
Enough?Sumo is a competitive
contact sport where two
wrestlers called rikishi face
off in a circular area. The
sport is popular in Japan and
is surrounded by ceremony and
ritual. The Japanese consider
sumo a gendai budō: a
modern Japanese martial art,
even though the sport has a
history sp
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The Terrific Fight ..... Fair
Enough?Sumo is a competitive
contact sport where two
wrestlers called rikishi face
off in a circular area. The
sport is popular in Japan and
is surrounded by ceremony and
ritual. The Japanese consider
sumo a gendai budō: a
modern Japanese martial art,
even though the sport has a
history spanning many
centuries. The sumo tradition
is very ancient, and even
today the sport includes many
ritual elements, such as the
use of salt for purification,
from the days sumo was used in
the Shinto religion.Sumo was
mentioned in Nihon Shoki, one
of the earliest texts in
Japan, under its earlier name
sumai, from the 8th century
A.D. However, these early
forms would not be sumo as it
is known today, as in many
cases the wrestling had
relatively few rules and
unarmed fights to the death
were still referred to as
'sumo'.

Category Comedy

Tags Amazing, Fight, Series, Sumo, vs, Orangutan