I am saddened today to hear of the death of Akebono (Chadwick Rowan), the first non-Japanese to reach #Sumo's highest rank of Yokozuna, and still to this day the only American to reach it (4 Mongolians have done it since).

I met him once. No one will ever confuse me with a small person and I was dwarfed by the man. He was just coming out of a resturaunt as I was going in, and I was honestly startled.

He just danced around me. In his prime he was astonishing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akebono_Tar%C5%8D