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Time For Fat Men To Run At Each Other. Oh, You Were Thinking Football?

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Last updated: 2014/01/22 at 8:05 PM
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One more week until the Super Bowl. That means one more chance to watch big, overgrown men colliding into each other. Unless you’re in Japan. Then you have 6 more chances.

The Grand Sumo Tournament started last week at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan sporting arena.

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The tournament, called honbasho (本場所), is a series of six seasonal tournaments, each of which lasts 15 days.

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Top sumo wrestlers, or rikishi, each compete once a day.

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The goal for all rikishi is to end the tournament with a majority of wins.

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This ensures they advance to the next tournament in the yearlong series.

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Sumo wrestlers gain their rights and ranks as profesionnal wrestlers only at these tournaments.

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Top divison winners get large trophies and small babies as prizes. Nah, the small babies aren’t prizes. They’re snacks for the wrestlers.

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Source: Instagram Blog

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