Some in the west might deem sumo a freak show in which obese children and even more obese adults are paraded to an admiring audience, but is it any more freakish than seven foot basketballers or 300 pound gridiron footballers who can run even time? It is one of the oldest martial arts, perhaps dating back to 23BC (if descriptions written eight centuries later can be so accurate!), but certainly it can be traced to 821 AD when, along with archery and equestrian archery, it formed one of the great annual tournaments at the Japanese imperial court. All modern sumo wrestlers belong to a training stable, the oldest of which date back to the late eighteenth century, and, similar to the WWE, are given new names when they begin their career. There are six sumo wrestling tournaments a year, each lasting 15 days with each wrestler participating once a day. Rankings which determine a wrestler’s social status and monthly income are revised after each tournament taking into account each wrestler’s win/loss record. It was results at some of these tournaments that exposed corruption in the form of match-fixing.