[sumo] More on the Tokitaizan incident

[Robert Brown]

Ditto my adopted rikishi, Ryukiyama.  He has missed 5
basho, last competing in November 2006.

Kodaiyama

--- Jeffrey Anderson <jeffand at regent.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com
> [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On
> > Behalf Of Moti
> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:55 AM
> > To: sumo at webtrek.com
> > Subject: [sumo] More on the Tokitaizan incident
> >
> > 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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