Jackie Bates - big, blonde and gorgeous - weighs 20 stone. She's an aerobics teacher and champion sumo wrestler... She is 50, but appears more like a woman in her late thirties, and is confident, warm and funny...While pumping iron she was spotted by Derby-based sumo master and third dan Steve 'Sumo' Pateman who has pioneered sumo wrestling in Britain..."I bumped into Sumo and he suggested that I might like to try sumo wrestling. It was a flattering thing to say to a woman, wasn't it? 'Would you like to be a sumo wrestler?' I didn't know whether to slap him there and then...They love me in Japan. They love this big, blonde British woman going over to compete"...more...