Before coming down the ramp for her fight, Mei Yamaguchi, in a nod to her surroundings at Ryogoku Kokugikan, did a brief shiko (where a sumo wrestler lifts his leg high and straight before stamping it down on the ground).
Then, she made her way down the ramp as the strains of Black Sabbath¡¯s ¡°Iron Man¡± blasted throughout sumo¡¯s hallowed hall. She¡¯d go on to win with an armbar.
That¡¯s something you don¡¯t see during the New Year Basho.
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