S.U.M.O. (not Sumo).

[arnisador]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/nyregion/19sumo.html

They were making the rounds to promote something called the "World S.U.M.O. Challenge - Battle of the Giants" at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. To hear them tell it, S.U.M.O. is different from sumo. S.U.M.O. - with periods - is, it turns out, pronounced "s period u period m period oh" by Noah Goldman, the president and chief of Big Boy Productions, a New York-based sports and entertainment production company that is behind the weekend matchups.

"We didn't want to be a generic sumo," he said, "we wanted it to be our vision of sumo, with a mixture of entertainment and music." But the S.U.M.O. matches at the Garden will not be scripted, the organizers say.

What is the deal, I wonder?

 

[shesulsa]

From your description alone, it sounds to me like a spinoff from pro "wrestling."

 

[searcher]

From your description alone, it sounds to me like a spinoff from pro "wrestling."

Agreed. It sounds like the WWE/WWF to me. I guess if it selss then they will do it.:erg:

 

[arnisador]

That was my thought, though they explicitly said the outcomes would not be scripted.

 

[shesulsa]

That was my thought, though they explicitly said the outcomes would not be scripted.

Isn't that what they said about pro wrestling, tho? back in the day?

 

[arnisador]

Yeah, and my younger brother was totally a believer in it.

I think Kaith still is!

Anyway, I'd be curious to see S.U.M.O. Probably it'll be on ESPN2 ro some such thing at some time, I suppose.