322: Underperforming Yokozuna. Futahaguru and Yoshibayama

Today's episode is full of strange history - a yokozuna who never won a top division yusho, another yokozuna whose career was affected by war wounds, sumo arenas used for building bombs that drifted across the oceans to land in the US, wrestling, Hollywood, health issues. Odd tales. Sad tales.

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