sumo wrestling
It's claimed he once pinned a famous sumo wrestler to the ground using just one finger.
The sumo wrestler wears a thick, elaborately tied canvas belt around his gut with a sling thing that slips between the legs; it's called the mawashi.
In Japan, all sumo wrestlers belong to a stable, a gym/dormitory where most of them live and where all of them train under the supervision of a master, himself a former wrestler.
He was tall, enormously big, with the physique of a Sumo wrestler.

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