No more foreign sumo wrestlers allowed

[DerAuslander]

And damn…she’s ugly…

[Peter_H]

@DerAuslander108

Truthfully, I don’t see what the big deal is. I’m not seeing the racism in this, and I work in the Asian American civil rights field. It’s their cultural art, and truthfully, any alluisions to baseball limiting Japanese players just rings hollow. If they want to place limits on an art that has such a deep tie to their Imperial history…then let them.

It’s also a sport, and even if it was art, is it right that the biggest platform and exhibition of the art be effectively limited to only one race? Should RSC and La Comedie-Francaise limit themselves to only nationally born members? Should we start banning the Canadian competators from the Texas Goat Bar-B-Que championships?

[DerAuslander]

I’m sorry. I don’t see any corralary between your examples and sumo.

[daGorilla]

@Cullion

You may want to point this out to your friend Yrkoon, over on our eating challenge thread. He thinks his puny 175lbs can out eat my pork-fed 250lbs on the grounds that he’s skinnier and has better cardio than me.

He may be right. Baddest ass champion eater in the world is a scrawny Japanese guy that weighs around 150 or less. I watched him absolutely CRUSH competitive eaters literally 2-3 times his size.

One I recall was a hot dog eating contest. Scrawny Japanese Guy nearly doubled his nearest competition – some 350LB fatass american.

He should enter MMA tourneys. He could just eat the competition.

-daGorilla

[Peter_H]

@DerAuslander108

I’m sorry. I don’t see any corralary between your examples and sumo.

You: Sumo =/= Sport, Sumo = Cultural Art
Me: RSC & LCF = Cultural Art, therefor, Sumo = RSC & LCF

Would it be accapetable for RSC & LCF to only use locally born talent, run locally written plays?
BBQ is a cultural icon in Texas, would it be acceptable to ban the Canadian competitors who come to Brady, TX every year for the Goat BBQ championships?

The answer to both those questions is no, it wouldn’t be.

So why is it acceptable for Japan to effectively ban foriegn born competitors?

[ryanand]

@Peter H.

You: Sumo =/= Sport, Sumo = Cultural Art
Me: RSC & LCF = Cultural Art, therefor, Sumo = RSC & LCF

Would it be accapetable for RSC & LCF to only use locally born talent, run locally written plays?
BBQ is a cultural icon in Texas, would it be acceptable to ban the Canadian competitors who come to Brady, TX every year for the Goat BBQ championships?

The answer to both those questions is no, it wouldn’t be.

So why is it acceptable for Japan to effectively ban foriegn born competitors?

deraus- need some ice for that burn? :angryfire

sounds like racism to me.

dekker was allowed to fight in thailand, and was revered and respected by the thai people
eminem has been accepted as a rapper
tiger woods has been accepted as a golfer
stevie ray vaughan and jimmy page were/are allowed to play blues guitar

the japanese are building robots and tiny mp3 player implants and-you didnt hear this from me- but a super death ray.

they’re kicking ass in the tech department but won’t accept an extra few foreign fat guys in their national sport? if the USA didnt allow foreigners in baseball, the sport would be dead… same with most every other sport in the US… baseball in particular is considered “american”… hence the example.

[DerAuslander]

Yeah, I guess you’re right…

I guess I’m just racist too.

I really wouldn’t want to have to rub up on some sweaty hairy fat white dude…anybody see that Ben Stiller movie, “Along Came Polly”?

[system]

@PizDoff

[i]Friday, Sep 02, 2005

No more foreign sumo wrestlers allowed

TOKYO (AP) - Foreign wrestlers hoping to enter Japan’s ancient sport of sumo will have to wait in line. Because of a rule that permits only one foreign wrestler per stable, there are currently no openings for foreigners in sumo, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursday.
A rule that allowed two foreigners per stable was abolished in 2002 and replaced with the current rule. Of the 54 stables in sumo, 50 already have one foreign wrestler. Stable masters at the other four said they have no intention of bringing in foreigners, opting instead to develop Japanese wrestlers.

Foreign wrestlers wanting to enter sumo will now have to wait for a foreigner at one of the 50 stables to retire or for one of the remaining four stables to change its policy.

Sumo’s elite ranks have seen an increasing number of foreign wrestlers in recent years and the sport is dominated by Mongolian Asashoryu, the only grand champion competing in sumo.

Asashoryu won his 13th Emperor’s Cup in July and became the first wrestler in almost 20 years to win five titles in a row.

Wrestlers from Russia, Bulgaria and Georgia have also moved up the ranks recently. Sumo hasn’t had a Japanese grand champion since Takanohana retired in January of 2003.

There are 735 wrestlers currently competing in sumo, including 59 foreign wrestlers from 12 countries. When the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament opens on Sept. 11 in Tokyo, 13 of the 42 wrestlers competing in the elite makuuchi division will be foreigners. [/i]

http://www.mytelus.com/sports/article.do?pageID=sports_home&articleID=2019272

Kinda like Pride

This is GREAT news!!!
Maybe this will help keep American obesity rates down. :tongue8:

[PizDoff1]

Or Americans will start their own ‘International League’ right in America.
Which might not be absolutely bad, since some lads will be exercising. At least fat and exercising is healthier than sedentary lifestyles.

@ryanand

deraus- need some ice for that burn? :angryfire

sounds like racism to me.

dekker was allowed to fight in thailand, and was revered and respected by the thai people

Though they did much to impede him.

[Kokujin]

Didn’t they try something like this with judo back in the day?

一見を邪悪な外国人見なさい

[Odacon]

In Ireland our nation sport is hurling (wont go into detail just google it). Anyway to my knowledge It is not played on a club level anywhere else in the world. Anywhere. Now, if the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association, the govening body), tried a similar ban because non Irish players began to outshine the Irish ones, there’d be murder! The government would intervene and force them to accept forgein players because in this day and age that kind of racist attitude is unacceptable. Imagine the NBL trying to bring back the negro leagues. The Japanese are an extremely racist people who hide under a veil of “nationalsism”.