[sumo] More on the Tokitaizan incident

[Jeffrey Anderson]

All this makes me fearful for my adopted rikishi, Tokinoumi of Tokitsukaze-beya. He has been kyujo the last two bashos. I wonder if someone took a bat to him, too???

Gaijingai

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> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:55 AM
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> Subject: [sumo] More on the Tokitaizan incident
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> One of the anideshi has admitted to hitting Tokitaizan with a metal
> bat. The bat, bloodstains and all, has been confiscated and will be
> used as evidence. Tokitsukaze hit him across the face with a beer
> bottle during dinner, after he was brought back from home for the third
> time and did not show "sufficient remorse", causing a deep gash. The
> next morning, Tokitaizan did not get up at 7:30 for asageiko which
> enraged the oyakata and deshi even more. They made him do butsugari
> keiko from around 11 am for 30 minutes, which is a looong time. This is
> when the bat thing happened. The rikishi who did it went on his own to
> the police and admitted his part a few days later.which caused the
> investigation to go quicker. Tokitsukaze first told the parents it was
> all in a normal day's keiko, but about a month ago, he visited their
> home and admitted to hitting him with a beer bottle. he admitted the
> same to the police as well. When the family realized this had nothing
> to do with Sumo's usual keiko, they pressed for a lawsuit and things
> started to roll.
> After
> hearing that the police had concrete evidence as to what transpired,
> the Kyokai upper echelons knew that they were in big trouble at the end
> of August, and voices acknowledged this was much more damaging than the
> Asa thing they were embroiled in at the time.
> Although it is common
> knowledge that keiko can be harsh, with caning an everyday occurrence,
> hitting someone with a metal baseball bat is totally over the line.
> This death in the keikoba will surely stain the reputation of the
> close-knit society of sumo in the eyes of the general public.
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