Posted May 20, 20178 yr comment_5801078 No point in discussing who the best one is since it's obviously Tenryu But I thought I'd make for a fun topic. There's also Taue obviously, as well as Rikioh and Wajima, Akebono (duh) and a few others I'm probably forgetting.
May 20, 20178 yr comment_5801079 Love sumo guys, for obvious reasons (no spoil on current basho, thank you fellow sumo fans). Taue doing the tsuppari attack always gets a pop from me. Meng did some sumo shit when he worked there (SWS I remember). Kitao was plain offensive.
May 20, 20178 yr comment_5801080 There's really not many sumo moves used in wrestling to be honest. Some of the throws are definitely applicable though. Sumo's a really weird sport in that it is a fighting/physical type of sport but has almost no influence on any other sport. Sumo is a great sport though.
May 20, 20178 yr comment_5801081 Now that I have gotten into sumo I look forward to revisiting Akebono to see how he utilized those disciplines
May 21, 20178 yr comment_5801120 Now that I have gotten into sumo I look forward to revisiting Akebono to see how he utilized those disciplines In Sumo, he was the master of using his long limbs to keep opponents away and slap/push people out.
May 28, 20178 yr comment_5802212 Several of the IWE guys in the 1960s and 70s had sumo backgrounds: Toyonobori, Rusher Kimura, Takashi “Onomi” Ishikawa, Umanosuke Ueda... and maybe a couple more. I'm not too sure if they used a lot of sumo moves, though. Rikidozan's chop is based on an open-handed sumo strike.
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