220kg Akebono to 'run' the Tokyo Marathon

[Taro Toporific]

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[sublight]

[IkemenTommy]

Cool. He is very talented in different fields like Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders.

[Taro Toporific]

Akebono sure has slimmed down recently...

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Shocking pink tutu, Harajuku.
https://t.co/MuwOd2gMT5 -- Tokyo Scum Brigade (@TokyoScum)August 23, 2014

[Hijinx]

Met Akebono one time--a total dick.

[Coligny]

Iz friend of starz...

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[Taro Toporific]

Akebono ain't gonna be running any marathons in the near future...

Akebono taken to hospital in emergency
hochi.co.jp | Sports | April 16, 2017
　Professional wrestler Akebono (47) was taken by ambulance to the hospital in Fukuoka Prefecture on the 15th. According to officials, he complained of feeling poorly after suffering a collapse on the 11th...
...Initially, he was expected to leave the hospital in about 10 days, but now he is under a medically induced coma in the ICU. His condition is considered very serious. His family has rushed to the hospital and is praying for recovery.
More (in Japanese)

[Coligny]

praying for recovery

Well... at least they are not delusionnal anoot the quality of japanese hospitals...

[legion]

Former Sumo wrestlers don't have long life expectancy. Chiyonofuji went off to the great basho in the sky last year, I saw his last ever bout live in Ryogoku.

Shame about Chad, hope he pulls through.

[Coligny]

Former Sumo wrestlers don't have long life expectancy. Chiyonofuji went off to the great basho in the sky last year, I saw his last ever bout live in Ryogoku.

Shame about Chad, hope he pulls through.

Yeashhh... weird how being morbidly obese or more loaded on steroids than a ballistic missile can shorten your life expectancy...

[legion]

Former Sumo wrestlers don't have long life expectancy. Chiyonofuji went off to the great basho in the sky last year, I saw his last ever bout live in Ryogoku.

Shame about Chad, hope he pulls through.

Yeashhh... weird how being morbidly obese or more loaded on steroids than a ballistic missile can shorten your life expectancy...

I think Chad's problem has always been his knees.

[Taro Toporific]

Akebono's right leg is treated for infection --- Emergency hospitalization denied
Goofy Google Translate Sports Nippon April 18 (Tue) 7am
　The Royal Road professional wrestling organization of pro wrestler and former Yokozuna, Taro Akebono (47) announced on renewed their official website on the 17th that Akebono is under hospital treatment due to a right leg infection, cellulitis. Akebono has been removed from the schedule for participation and appearances of all his planned events ...

Also refer to:
http://rocketnews24.com/2017/04/18/890009/
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and- ... llulitis#1

[Coligny]

Also refer to:
http://rocketnews24.com/2017/04/18/890009/

Just the level of bizarre needed before a deep sleep of uninterrupted nightmares...

[Mike Oxlong]

He's still in hospital and undergoing rehabilitation after being treated for acute heart failure. Currently confined to a wheelchair and down about 60 kg. Apparently still wants to get back to pro wrasslin'.

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=2018 ... orts-fight

[legion]

Well I hope he pulls through

[Grumpy Gramps]

Awww IZ, long time no see He was AFAIK closer to 350kg, though.

[Taro Toporific]

Akebono ain't gonna be running any marathons in the near future...

Akebono taken to hospital in emergency
hochi.co.jp | Sports | April 16, 2017

Sumo legend Akebono in the middle of his biggest battle yet
staradvertiser.com | May 6, 2018 Updated May 6, 2018
TOKYO >> Twenty five years ago, amid falling snowflakes and a crowd gathered to watch the ritual ceremonies at the Meiji Shrine, Chad Rowan strode powerfully into sumo history as the sport’s first foreign-born grand champion.
These days the immediate challenge for the 6-foot, 8-inch Rowan is to rise from his wheelchair and walk, unaided, again.
Behind the doors of a rehabilitation facility in the Tokyo area, the man who competed for 13 years as Akebono works to regain mobility a year after suffering acute heart failure.
He remains proud and determined as he prepares to celebrate his 49th birthday Tuesday, family and friends say.
Few outside his immediate family (wife Christine, daughter Caitlyn, 20, and sons Cody, 17, and Connor, 14) have visited him so private and so intent is the Kaiser High graduate from Waimanalo on not being seen in public until he regains his strength.
“He’s been an athlete all his life and still has that pride,” said Christine, the family spokesperson. “He has come a long way.”
Not long after his 2001 retirement from sumo, a sport in which he won the Emperor’s Cup 11 times, Akebono began competing on a variety of mixed martial arts and wrestling circuits. It was while on a wrestling tour in Kitakyushu, five and a half hours south of Tokyo by train, in April 2017 that he began feeling ill. One morning, after wrestling the night before, the family said he walked into a hospital seeking treatment and later collapsed.
The situation was deemed serious enough that he was placed in a medically induced coma for approximately a week, his wife said, then sedated for another week...
...When Akebono was in a coma last year, Musashimaru was hospitalized in Tokyo. Musashimaru fell ill during a golf outing in Nara. He then received a kidney transplant from his wife, Masami, a former hula instructor.
“I feel good and the doctors say I’m doing well,” said Musashimaru, who turned 47 Wednesday. “Thanks to my wife.”...
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[Takechanpoo]

taro bono is now already in nirvana.

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is suffering a defect of memory, completely bedridden and his body weight is decreased 210 to 140kg.
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/15369130/