Kaido Höövelson — the Baltic Champion of Sumo Wrestling

VINCENT TEETSOV

Years ago at a hotel restaurant in Tallinn, I recall seeing people glued to a TV screen over by the bar.

In between bites of a late breakfast, they were watching a wrestling match. Not the Olympics, not WWE. It was sumo wrestling, broadcast six hours ahead from Japan.

The centre of their attention was a wrestler by the name of Kaido Höövelson, and for a moment, his breath, the spectators’ breath, and the breath of those diners, was held all at once…

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