Sumo Menko Man

I've noticed over the years that I'll be using Sumo Reference and it will randomly give me the 404 error which takes a few hours to clear up. It seems unstable with the browser I am using or the way I am using Sumo Reference. It is like the server gets tripped pretty easily.

It was up an hour or so ago and now back to a 404 error. There is still hope that the issue will clear itself up soon!

Oh, this looks like it would be pretty cool to watch if done correctly. Wonder if it will go on the road at some point.

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Did you ever find out any more information on Hachijin?

Sad to see, but not shocked. Believe Hakuho and Kakuryu were both holding out to be the top representatives of sumo during the Olympics and a point of pride for Mongolia. With no foreign spectators coming now it didn’t make sense for Kakuryu to stay any longer and imagine he would have retired long ago had the Olympics been held last year. Would not be surprised to see Hakuho retire after the Olympics finish up this summer.

Yup! Wakanohana, Takamiyama, Akebono.

Thought it would be interesting to plot sumo wrester monthly base salary increases (in yen) from 1975 to 2019. Crazy how much the sumo boom in the early 1990s shot salaries up. I grabbed all these numbers from Sumo World Magazine, except for 2019 which I think I found on a thread here. Interesting to note that the Yokozuna-to-Juryo pay ratio is about 2.75 through the years, Ozeki-to-Juyro is about 2.25 through the years, Sekiwake/Komusubi-to-Juryo is about 1.65 through the years, and Maegashira-to-Juryo is 1.25 through the years.

Thanks for the great discussion. According National Hole In One Registry it looks like the odds of the average golfer making a hole-in-one are 12,000 to one and you would have to play 3500 rounds of golf before you got one. Seems like if Kasugano (ex-Tochinishiki) got one back in late 1960s/early 1970s there is a good chance someone in sumo has gotten one since.

Maybe a strange topic for here, but was reading the January 1973 issue of Sumo World and it mentioned that Kasugano Oyakata (former Yokozuna Tochinishikj) was the only man ever in sumo to make a hole in one in golf. That was 47 years ago, has anyone ever remembered hearing about any other retired or active wrestler having a hole in one since? Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!

Congrats, that is a huge accomplishment, can't imagine many have done it before you outside of Japan.

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