Why hasn't sumo taken off in America?
Why hasn't sumo taken off in America?
Henry Sanchez
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Colton Ross
Because all Americans are sumos
Joseph Sanders
This.
Elijah Phillips
They do it for free
Easton Hill
Americans need storylines and trash talk
pic: Based hana nut crushing Tobizaru
Joshua Sanders
Kayden Gutierrez
It's too BASED. Amerifats can't handle it.
Ian Bell
Will we ever get another Sumo wrestler in wrestling? Do smarks even want such a thing or do they only care about the flips and dives?
Noah Hughes
Big naked fat guys in thongs
Dylan Hill
basically this
if they wore singlets and shorts they might have a chance overseas
James Powell
This is why sumo should stay in Japan
Trying to ruin hunderd years of tradition
Carter James
I remember an article saying that anyone second division or lower got paid absolute dog shit (wanna say it was close to 5K a month and less or the youung guys). Hell, yokozunas make a shade under $400K for a year.
Henry Long
lemondedusumo.com
This is pretty old but since then they got pay raises. Only highest en second division get paid a monthly salary.
Food and living in a stable is free. You do have to do chores as a low ranker, good deal if you ask me
Thomas Nelson
>I remember an article saying that anyone second division or lower got paid absolute dog shit (wanna say it was close to 5K a month and less or the youung guys). Hell, yokozunas make a shade under $400K for a year.
Sumo isn't like pro sports. There's not 30 teams with individual TV contracts worth tens to hundreds of millions. There's not jerseys to buy. They only run tournaments that count in 4 cities. And you can't hype stuff up since you never know who will be in the race for the title or not.
There's just not the opportunities for profit there like in other sports.
Thomas Walker
Hope so. There's something about big lads that can move and groove that's more impressive than vanilla midgets doing flippyshit.
John Scott
Based Sumo Quake
Camden Moore
>One of the posted articles suggests that he had a big ego and considered himself invincible. He felt that it would only be a short time before he would be working his way through the Ozekis and the Yokozunas. He was rulling the roost going against the young kids in the heya. One day, Sadagotake Oyakata brought in one of the more experienced Makushita's for keiko, and John got his butt whupped consistently by the rikishi. He then realized that he wasn't going to have a cake walk and quit sumo shortly thereafter.
Adam Ross
>Why hasn't sumo taken off in America?
Here's why:
- There's no history of it here. There's no hometown connections. There's no parents passing it down to their kids, etc. It's not an American sport and has never been a thing here minus 1990's ESPN2 reruns.
- There's too much competition. You got the big 4 leagues (and their college counterparts) plus golf, UFC, WWE, soccer and everything else. And those sports have a lot more potential for profit than sumo.
- No one wants to see them in their mawashi's and the US really doesn't like heavier people much.
- It would reek havoc on TV schedules. For two weeks 6x a year, no one could run traditional programming. It would be virtually impossible for it to get on a decent channel during football season.
Landon Reed
>tradition
HOLY FAGOLI
Cooper Myers
We put all our nimble fat guys on the offensive line.
Brandon Cook
James Gandolfini had a bizarre career before the Sopranos.
Angel Bell
The HNICs of Sumo are butthurt at the literal greatest yokozuna in history for slightly deviating from the tradition of how to end a tournament.