An old theoretical question — can a professional wrestler defeat a professional boxer? — got an early test of sorts in 1976, when Antonio Inoki fought Muhammad Ali: That same evening, wrestler Andre the Giant (who in his youth often rode with the playwright Samuel Beckett, but may never have wrestled with or boxed Beckett) […]
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The effect of foreign sumo wrestlers on the body-mass/human-capital relationship in Japan
This economics study suggests that allowing foreigners to work as sumo wrestlers has been detrimental to the quality of native wrestlers’ wrestling: “Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan,” Eiji Yamamura, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, epub November 22, 2013. The author, at […]
Wrestling women & Aztec mummy: Truth revealed
We have it on good authority that this film sequence is not a genuine record of an anthropological study: (Thanks to investigator Stanley Eigen for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: We do not know whether this, possibly related, film clip is a hoax: