Yes, sumo dude running Evolution in Action does seem appropriate... let me mosey on over to his profile and see what I can do about that gold star

siftbot better learn right now never to anger a sumo wrestler... congrats man!

You can also see him in this funny commercial

He's responsible for the following voices, amongst others...

"Oblongs, The" (2001) TV Series .... George Climer, James, Anita Bidet, others
Wacky Races (2000) (VG) .... Muttley/L'il Gruesome
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) .... Sumo Singer
Dinosaur (2000) .... Additional Voice
"Detention" (1999) TV Series .... Emmitt Roswell
Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) (TV) .... Mr. Eskimo
Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999) (VG) .... Emilio Baza
"Futurama" (1999) TV Series .... Philip J. Fry/Professor Hubert Farnsworth/Doctor Zoidberg/Captain Zapp Brannigan
"Histeria!" (1998) TV Series .... Confucious/Benjamin Franklin/Others
"Magician, The" (1998) TV Series .... Cosmo Cooper
"Toonsylvania" (1998) TV Series
"CatDog" (1998) TV Series .... Rancid Rabitt/Mr Sunshine/Randolph
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (1998) (V) .... Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
"Voltron: The Third Dimension" (1998) TV Series .... Pidge
"Extreme Ghostbusters" (1997) TV Series .... Slimer/Mayor McShane
Escape From Atlantis (1997) (TV) .... Voice Characterizations
"Weird Al Show, The" (1997) TV Series .... Announcer/Various characters
"Jumanji" (1996) TV Series .... Monkey #1
"Project G.e.e.K.e.R." (1996) TV Series .... Geeker
Space Jam (1996) .... Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd
Joe's Apartment (1996) .... Ralph Roach
Phobophilia: The Love of Fear (1995) (TV)
"Doug" (1991) TV Series .... Doug Funnie, Roger Klotz, Boomer Bledsoe, Joe Valentine
"Ren and Stimpy Show, The" (1991) TV Series .... Ren Hoek (1993-1996)/Stimpson J. Cat

i always wanted to see the Sumo japanese tradition one.

Rembar, what is the "grievous foul" you believe you saw? Everything he did in these clips are totally in line with the rules of sumo and are acceptable. There are five judges aroiund the dohyo, in addition to the referee, to assure that no fouls are undetected. Had he performed a foul action, he would have been disqualfied and declared the particular bout's loser.

Born as Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj on September 27, 1980 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Asashoryu is the first sumo wrestler (rikishi) from Mongolia to reach the rank of yokozuna, the highest sumo rank. After his debut in 1999, it took Asashoryu only 24 tournaments to win his first top division championship, the quickest achievement of this since the sport adopted its current format of six championships a year in 1958. He is also currently (as of 2007) the only active yokozuna and is considered one of the greatest sumo wrestlers in history.

Unlike his Hawaiian predecessors Akebono and Musashimaru, Asashoryu was relatively lightweight at 129 kg in 2001, he began bulking up to 131 kg in 2002, 140 kg by 2004, and is now about 148 kg (326 pounds), right on average. He has successfully relied on speed and technique to compete against his, often much heavier, opponents, though lately he has begun confronting those opponents head on with the intention of out-muscling them. His lightning speed has suffered somewhat with the extra weight though he is still a lot faster than most of his opponents. He famously dumped the 158 kg Kotomitsuki with a "lifting body slam" (tsuriotoshi), a feat of tremendous strength, normally accomplished on much smaller and weaker opponents.

On January 30, 2003 Asashoryu was granted the title of yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. While his first championship as yokozuna ended in a disappointing 10-5 record, he has since won a total of eighteen tournaments. Combined with his two yusho as an Ozeki, he has twenty career championships. The highlights of his career to date include two consecutive perfect 15-0 tournament wins (zensho yusho) in January and March of 2004 with a streak of 35 unbeaten bouts in total. Nobody had attained zensho yusho since 1996; yet Asashoryu has gone on to add three more such titles since 2004, for an impressive career total of five. On November 27, 2004, Asashoryu became the first wrestler to win five tournaments in a year since Chiyonofuji achieved the feat 18 years ago, and won his ninth Emperor's Cup.

He continued to dominate Sumo in 2005, winning all six honbasho (sumo tournaments) and losing only six bouts all year (0-1-0-2-2-1). One of those rare losses came on September 11, 2005 at the start of the Aki Basho when he dropped his first Shonichi (Day 1) bout during his tenure as Yokozuna. On November 26, 2005 a visibly emotional Asashoryu wept after winning his eighty-third bout of the year (a new record) and clinching the tournament at the same time. The six victories of 2005 combined with his victory from the final tournament of 2004 has set a new record run of seven consecutive tournament victories, including two more 15-0 wins in January and May of 2005. The great Yokozuna Taih_ Koki achieved the feat of six consecutive tournament victories twice, but never in a calendar year. Asashoryu now stands alone with seven, cementing his place as one of the best ever. As of January 20th, 2007 Asashoryu has posted a 13-1 record, thus capturing his 20th career title, and fourth straight since returning from injury. Many believe he will go on to break the record of 32 tournament wins held by Taiho Koki.

Asashoryu has been criticized for infractions of the strict code of conduct expected of top sumo wrestlers. The most severe of his transgressions was his disqualification in the July tournament in 2003. He pulled on Kyokushuzan's mage (traditional Japanese top knot) during their bout on Day 5 of the tournament, resulting in an immediate hansoku-make, or disqualification. This caused a furor among Japanese fans, who already had a distaste for the foreign yokozuna. Some irate fans even called him a cheat ("hansoku") during the weeks and months following this act. His other divergences from the norm include being photographed in a suit (instead of a traditional Japanese costume), complaining to judges after losing a decision, and refusing to adopt Japanese citizenship. He has also been accused of breaking the mirror of a rival's car.

why not an irish dude? Why not a militia man?
Umm... yeah. Everyone knows how popular suicide bombings are among the IRA and white militants.

There is no problem with this ad. I think JD's issue is more with VW and not your selection, although I don't agree with his oversensitivity anyway. (Would it also be offensive to show a black man playing basketball or a Japanese man sumo wrestling or an Asian man eating a dog?)

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In other news, I have seen this before and think it may be a dupe, but I may be wrong.

Doug Llewellen of the original People's Court at the end with the Sumo guy. Awesome.

choggie is a bitchslapping sumo wrestler now?

farhad: I agree that Scandanavian countries are much cleaner than the rest of the west (the only vague examples I could struggle to think of earlier). However, the recent Pirate Bay scandal in Sweden should proove two points: they aren't scot-free in these countries; and the US (and its industries) throws its weight around like a champion sumo wrestler.

For those that don't know: the US & its MPAA forced the Swedish government (via threats of sanctions) to close down the worlds largest BitTorrent site. In Sweden, the government is entirely seperate to the police; they have no right to get the police to investigate anyone (never mind illegally shutting them down with no charge/reason). I state this, as it's in fact NOT illegal to have a website hosting torrents according to their own laws; plus the police witholding its servers, which other (also legal) companies use - is blatantly wrong.

Wumpus: presidents calling each other names isn't entirely what the issue is here (besides, Bush never speaks about foreign policy without Evil being in the speech somewhere: EG Axis of Evil, anyone?) The US president backing yet another illegal overthrow of a democratically elected government in South America IS. This is a persistent theme in US foreign politics over the past four plus decades - plus the rest of the world too (smells of religous-based rascism to me).

Also, as ren said: the UN is a neutral international site - even though it's in New York (not America's house - that's in Washington). And again, as ren said: the US has by far more violations of international (and its own) laws than Hugo Chavez could ever get away with. Think before you type please Wumpus (or even better: read some of Chomskys' books) I found that earlier comment insulting - and I'm a bland caucasian Brit...

meh~

I'd ratehr see a couple of sumo wrestlers just "bulldoze" the whole thing down!