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This is another reason why Sumo which is an amazing martial art never really grew in popularity outside of Japan. Even now, a bunch of us enthusiasts need to watch the bashos with the help of YouTubers who can be DMCAed any moment.

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I'm fairly sure Eurosport used to broadcast Sumo back in the late 90s and early 00s, with commentary in either Dutch or English (I forgot). I don't know if they still do.

Being practiced by almost exclusively Japanese probably doesn't help either; you can't root for your "home team", so to speak. No one watched darts in the Netherlands, then a Dutch candidate won the world title 25 years ago and everyone in the Netherlands was watching it.

> Being practiced by almost exclusively Japanese probably doesn't help either; you can't root for your "home team", so to speak.

That depends what you mean by "Japanese". Naturalized Japanese, probably, but a fair number of the wrestlers are originally from Mongolia or Eastern Europe now.

Though I don't follow it myself so don't know how interesting it is. Always wanted to try the food though.

I think that has more to do about the fact that it's actually practiced almost exclusively in Japan. Even just to train you're basically forced to live in a handful of Japanese cities.

https://www.twitch.tv/midnightsumo

found this recently for those interested! worth it for ads alone.

If your cable provider carries TVJapan/NHK you can watch it.

Also I assume that you're aware of this: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/

Yes this is good but we used to have some great english speaking breakdowns of the events on youtube and they keep have to change the channel as they are taken down. A lot of the fun is to talk about the fights and who will win etc.

NHK is an amazing channel if you got it. like 817 on comcast in the bay. but just the fact they dont have ads. and have so many great programs. If I need dead air background during the day its on NHK

   * Railway Journey
   * Cycle Japan
   * Somewhere Street
   * Lunch Expo
   * Bento Express
   * pythagoras switch (theres a new one thats like programing focused)


   * I really miss Supreme Skills tho

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Negative. I am a meat popsicle.

You have definitely differebt definition of "amazing martial art". Just pushing out of opponent is not even martial arts

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