Sumo
Sumo noun - A Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground.
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Wrestling
Wrestling noun - The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
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Sumo and wrestling are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Sumo" with "Wrestling", this nouns are similar.
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- Does Not Like Shoes: Wrestled without shoes or boots at his first pro wrestling apparitions, probably due to his sumo heritage.
Source: Wrestling / Akebono -
In the old days where pro wrestling was a legit sport, the first Japanese wrestling heel before Rikidozan was a man born Koujiro Matsuda, known in sumo as Torakichi and known to the American wrestling world as Sorakichi Matsuda after a corruption of his first name and sumo name.
Source: Foreign Wrestling Heel - However, he would have infinitely more success in pro wrestling, first appearing for WWE as part of a special sumo match against The Big Show in Wrestlemania 21.
Source: Wrestling / Akebono
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