Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yrmfa-01p1-162.ppp11.odn.ad.JP!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: No kidding? Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:07:01 +0900 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <3FF38FC3.ACE69EA8@yahoo.co.jp> <44845040.0401010153.36e57a3b@posting.google.com> <3FF3F1D5.975D9AF@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: yrmfa-01p1-162.ppp11.odn.ad.jp (61.116.158.162) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073041605 3093502 61.116.158.162 ([101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9396 "mr.sumo snr." wrote in message news:bt1cb3$1raq0$1@ID-141600.news.uni-berlin.de... > This of course sets up a great tv-special profiling Akebono's attempts to > recover from this humiliation. He gets back into serious training - > including shedding at least 30-40 kgs - and all the time the camera will cut > away to showed pained expressions on his wife's face etc. It was probably good for both their careers. Now Sapp gets a new image as a real fighter instead of just a yajuu, and he'll probably get a few more big purses. Meanwhile, everybody will want to see Akebono at least one more time, to see if he actually learns how to throw a punch. So a few more oku lined up for both, not to mention the commercial deals etc. In fact, the results were so perfect that -- dare I say it -- I even suspected a bit of the "Y" word. D'ya think? Nah, of course not. Not on Japanese tv. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom