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Sumo

Sumo
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About Sumo

Sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet.

On the show · 11 mentions total

There is one move in Sumo, one technique called Henke — it's the way that the winner of the Sumo Championships in 2016 won it. The Henke is when your rival hurtles towards you super fast to take you down and then you just step to the side like you're in a cartoon and your rival goes plummeting out of the ring.

from 232: No Such Thing As A Seven Foot Bond, 2018-08-31 at 00:03:48 · read transcript

Other times Sumo came up

  1. So she said, why are you doing that? He's your neighbor. He said, it's very important. It's my duty. You must never forget your duty or your fundoshi. Your fundoshi is like the pants that Sumo wrestlers wear. Very old-fashioned kind of pants, like a loincloth thing. That's cool. So she said, that's a weird saying. He's like, yeah, it's an old saying. He's this really somber, and she's filming, he's this very serious, very dry, doesn't really say anything, old guy.

    422: No Such Thing as The Long Kiss Good Brie, 2022-04-15 · listen

  2. Yeah, and he became known he was so good, he became known as Knight of the Whistle. I like to think they maybe called him Sir Bastard after that. The Knight of the Whistle is true. Do you want to hear something about the UK Sumo scene? Yes, please. This is from the UK Sumo website and it's also sad. At present, the sport of sumo in the UK has a very limited following.

    No Such Thing As Jesus's Magic Wand, 2015-05-15 · listen

  3. Right. Yeah, people didn't really rate him very much and they thought we're just going to make this up about him as far as I know he didn't poo in the phone. What was the nappy situation back then? Great question. Sumo hadn't been invented. What were they wearing cloth, I guess? You would just wear cloth. I think a lot of kids would just go without.

    No Such Thing As Quantum Baseball, 2025-08-28 · listen

  4. You don't always have control over whether there are wobbling up and down movements, I find, increasingly. Sumo wrestlers were also banned under these rules, aren't they? Wow. The ruler who banned them in 1834 was Muhammad Ali.

    No Such Thing As An Unlucky Fountain, 2026-07-02 · listen

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