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Japanese media reports: Expelled Russian sumo wrestlers receiving fight offers
By Zach Arnold | June 6, 2009
Soslan & Bartaz Boradzov (Boradzov Soslan Feliksovich & Baradzov Batraz Feliksovich), two Russian Sumo fighters who faced explusion from Sumo for failing a drug test issued by the Japanese Sumo Assocation, have reportedly been made an offer to get into the fight game. The two men were banned from Sumo after testing positive for marijuana. The two men fought under the ring names of Roho & Hakurodzan.
Their lawyer, Yasuo Shionoya (the same lawyer for convicted rapist & murderer Joji Obara who mutilated Lucie Blackman), is fighting on their behalf to get the two men reinstated into Sumo. He’s in Tokyo District Court arguing that the procedures used for taking the drug tests and the chain-of-custody for evidence gathering was not done properly. Shionoya said that his clients’ main goal is to get back into Sumo, but that the two men have allegedly received fight offers from both Japanese and foreign organizations.
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This is not the first time, nor will it be the last that Japanese Sumo must face identity battles due to the behavior of its participants.
This is a common thread in all leagues — NFL, (organized dog fighting) NBA (players butt-dogging ladies on the road who are not their wives) and WWE — well, that is not really a sport anymore. . .