It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than These Sumo Wrestlers Running A Race

October 23, 2015

If you asked me what sumo wrestlers did when they weren’t slapping and pushing each other in the ring, my first guess would be eat.

Near the bottom of my list of guesses? Racing each other on foot.

But according to Huffington Post, that’s exactly what sumo wrestlers Kento Amakaze, Tatsuaki Kaiho and Kanata Takatenshu recently did on a track in Wakayama, Japan, and it did not disappoint.

It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than These Sumo Wrestlers Running A Race

今日は和歌山巡業！土俵の外でも熱い戦いがありました手前から天風関、魁鵬、貴天秀さん pic.twitter.com/2rBKPbD4Kl

— 石浦将勝 (@ghetto_stone) October 19, 2015

It was photo finish, but we’ll go ahead and say Kaiho in the middle lane was the victor, especially since he did this little winner’s shimmy afterward:

Although really, all of us are champions for being able to watch that.

Sumo wrestlers racing on foot is highly entertaining, but we prefer this race: Japanese Game Show Pits Women Against Each Other…In Hand Job Race

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