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Kaio sets sumo record for most wins

Sports Jul. 15, 2011 - 06:56AM JST ( 9 )

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VirtuosoJul. 15, 2011 - 08:33AM JST

Kaio’s win is a welcome outcome as sumo struggles to overcome a bout-fixing scandal that shut Japan’s ancient sport down for six months.

Actually Kaio's been the recipient of this adulation because he's the only Japan-born Ozeki left (the other one, Kotomitsuki, got booted for gambling on baseball). He'll probably retire on his laurels very soon, now that he's set the record. The JSA is desperately looking for someone who wins consistently enough to warrant promotion. Chances are 50-50 he'll be a Mongol or Georgian.
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FarmboyJul. 15, 2011 - 09:08AM JST

Kaio almost always delivers a solid performance, even when he doesn't win. Nothing flashy, but consistently good.
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realteacherJul. 15, 2011 - 09:09AM JST

Actually Kaio's been the recipient of this adulation because he's the friggin' record holder.
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WolfpackJul. 15, 2011 - 09:47AM JST

Kaio's been around a long time. His breaking Chiyonofuji's record is akin to Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record. He has been consistently good for longer than anyone else. Congratulations to Kaio.
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BurakuminDesJul. 15, 2011 - 11:06AM JST

He's old.
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jforceJul. 15, 2011 - 11:11AM JST

Kaio will retire soon, so good on him to get the record. Too bad he couldn't get up to the big Y. Gambling in sports will never go away, though.
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Dennis BauerJul. 15, 2011 - 11:37AM JST

Last of the mohicans? all the topers are gaijin rikishi, and the few interesting rikishi got expelled by the JSA, and thank you NHK for promoting the national Japanese sport so much, like i am staying up after midnight to see the recap :(
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TorafusuTorasanJul. 15, 2011 - 01:55PM JST

Ha ha @ Dennis Bauer

Gotta turn into a night owl to be a sports fan in Japan. That sumo recap show from 1:30-2:00 gives you 1:45 of nap time before the women's world cup final live from Germany.

The recap show is still better than watching the sumo result on the regular NHK news, where we maybe get to see two matches if we are lucky followed by all the other bout results flashed too quickly (for me) to follow.

Some of the foreigners like Brazil's Kaisei are nikkei/Japanese ancestry. I wonder if Virtuoso is right about the sport's loss of fans being proportionate to the success of foreign wrestlers. Especially that bad boy Asashoryu.
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warnerbroJul. 15, 2011 - 07:20PM JST

Chiyonofuji also won 31 basho along the way. Kaio has won 5. His first bouts of this basho were unworthy of a record owning wrestler. He should have retired one short the way Chiyo did in respect to Taiho.