Sumo’s best champ Hakuho intends to retire—report

FILE PHOTO: Mongolian-born grand sumo champion yokozuna Hakuho performs the New Yr’s ring-entering ceremony on the annual celebration for the New Yr at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Picture

TOKYO – Japan’s top-ranked sumo wrestler Hakuho, who holds a file 45 event wins, intends to retire after fighting accidents in recent times, NHK public tv reported on Monday.

Hakuho, 36, made his sumo debut in 2001 and fought his means as much as the highest rank of yokuzuna in Could 2007, changing into the second Mongolian native to carry that rank.

NHK quoted sources as saying Hakuho had firmed up his intention to stop and that he can be taking the mandatory steps to run a sumo “secure,” the place wrestlers dwell and prepare.

Hakuho, who gained Japanese nationality in 2019, a prerequisite for opening a secure, has stated that coaching wrestlers can be a “means of exhibiting my gratitude”.

The Japan Sumo Affiliation stated it had no remark to make on the report.

Hakuho, born Monkhbatyn Davaajargal, broke information for event wins and the variety of bouts received in a calendar 12 months, and his tenure as yokozuna was additionally the longest in sumo historical past.

However accidents hampered his profession over the previous few years and he dropped out of a number of tournaments sat out others altogether.

In July he received a event in Nagoya however stated on the time, “My physique is falling aside. I need to rigorously contemplate the long run.”

Hakuho, who examined constructive for COVID-19 in January, additionally pulled out of a event in September after a number of wrestlers in his secure examined constructive.

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