Reasons that rikishi quit sumo are manifold.
Injury, advancing age, the desire to have a family or declining prospects of success are among the most common grounds given for leaving the sport.
Telling the stablemaster that you want to go to America to hunt down and kill the man’s son because he has been fooling around with your stepmom — not so much.
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