In March 1986, while Mike Ditka, Walter Payton and William "The Refrigerator" Perry and the rest of the Chicago Bears were still celebrating their Super Bowl XX mauling of the New England Patriots two-plus months earlier, in Osaka a young man named Daisaku Yamaguchi made his professional sumo debut.
Thirty-four years later, he is still going.
Fighting under the ring name Hanakaze since 1999, Yamaguchi now owns several notable longevity records.
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