Sumo Still Losing Popularity

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Sumo Still Losing Popularity

Postby Mulboyne » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:55 pm

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MDN: Sumo organizers struggle to attract fans to tournaments
FUKUOKA -- The number of fans who go to watch sumo tournaments continues to decline and authorities are at a loss to deal with the problem...Officials at a leisure and entertainment research institute run by the PIA Corp. said that the number of sumo fans who went to watch tournaments in 2004 was 575,000, a drop of 2.4 percent from 2003...[they] said that the sumo association should come up with new, innovative ideas such as holding an arm-wrestling event between sumo wrestlers and fans and other things involving the Internet...more...
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Postby fatslug » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:56 pm

the organisers are so fucken stupid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if the prices were a little more reasonable like maybe baseball prices then im sure more ppl would go !
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Postby cstaylor » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:40 pm

That's Chiyotaikai doing the hop-skip in that animated above.

Sumo's popularity will rebound once Japan has a native son as Yokozuna. :idea:
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:43 pm

They are considering a new opening ceremony

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Postby AssKissinger » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:47 pm

Maybe it's their lame ass stuffy attitudes...

A stablemaster said that it's sad for him to see fans applaud popular wrestler Takamisakari's pre-bout, grandstanding antics.
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Postby cstaylor » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:28 am

It's like applauding Forest Gump. He slaps himself in the face before entering the dohyo because his stablemaster used to do that to him when he was a younger wrestler.

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Postby cliffy » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:33 am

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8O 8O 8O I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!! CS NOT IN A RUGBY STRIPE SHIRT!!!
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Postby cstaylor » Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:38 am

You can't see it beneath the jacket... :wink:
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Postby devicenull » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:56 pm

Am I alone in just cheering for the foreigners to kick some jap butt every time I went to one of these? Of course, the pairings were always rigged to fuck over the foreigners in the end :(
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Postby cstaylor » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:02 pm

Well, that's what many of the Japanese fans are doing... in reverse. If you want to yank the chain of a Japanese sumo fan, you can sympathize with them, "yeah, American baseball just isn't as fun to watch anymore with all those Japanese players taking the top spots... we really should put a limit on the number of players that can join U.S. teams" :lol: :wink:
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Postby Brother » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:40 am

they'd rather watch real fighting
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Postby kurohinge1 » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:05 pm

Mulboyne wrote:Sumo association experiments with wire work
MDN: Sumo organizers struggle to attract fans to tournaments

. . . [they] said that the sumo association should come up with new, innovative ideas . . .


How about Sumo Ring Girls ?

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Postby kurohinge1 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:14 pm

Well, I finally got to my first Sumo match, last night in Osaka - the 13th day of the current tournament.

Going in, I was more committed to ticking off my list something I've been meaning to do for a long time but have never go around to. And it's surprised me, but I really enjoyed it.

There were quite a few foreigners there, but the Japanese were mostly older - probably the timing was a big factor, being a Friday and finishing around 6pm.

Nevertheless, if you've never been, I can thoroughly recommend it. Grab a bento & some liquid refreshments & head in to watch the fun.

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Postby GuyJean » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:13 pm

kurohinge1 wrote:Well, I finally got to my first Sumo match, last night in Osaka - the 13th day of the current tournament.

Going in, I was more committed to ticking off my list something I've been meaning to do for a long time but have never go around to. And it's surprised me, but I really enjoyed it.

There were quite a few foreigners there, but the Japanese were mostly older - probably the timing was a big factor, being a Friday and finishing around 6pm.

Nevertheless, if you've never been, I can thoroughly recommend it. Grab a bento & some liquid refreshments & head in to watch the fun.
:thumbs: I have yet to go, but I really enjoy having Sumo on TV for lazy afternoon weekends; it's on now. The last few tournaments have been fairly competitive, too..

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Postby AssKissinger » Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:59 pm

They should promote it more in the states.
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Postby Greji » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:29 pm

AssKissinger wrote:They should promote it more in the states.


Didn't somebody make them wear swimming trunks at some venue in the states when they were on tour a couple of years back?
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Postby Mulboyne » Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:27 am

Crowd at the Kyushu basho:

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Postby AssKissinger » Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:52 pm

Mulboyne wrote:Crowd at the Kyushu basho:

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Those basho are long as shit and people file in late. At what point was that?
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Postby GuyJean » Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:32 pm

AssKissinger wrote:Those basho are long as shit and people file in late. At what point was that?
Watched the last hour on TV tonight. The crowd looked like that for last match]is[/I] in Kyushu.. But it still looks bad.

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Postby Mike Oxlong » Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:58 pm

GuyJean wrote:Watched the last hour on TV tonight. The crowd looked like that for last match]is[/I] in Kyushu.. But it still looks bad.

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Is there any difference between the weekday and weekend/holiday crowds?
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Postby GuyJean » Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:11 pm

Mike Oxlong wrote:Is there any difference between the weekday and weekend/holiday crowds?
I was thinking the same thing; Probably so. This being the first week of the tournament might be a factor as well..

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