Grand Sumo Breakdown

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Grand Sumo Breakdown episodes

February 26, 2021 Bonus Episode: Blaine from The Fight Library
From deep in the annals of the "I Thought I Posted This Episode Already" archives comes our January 2021 interview with Blaine Henry, curator of The Fight Library, a hub for combat sports of all kinds. Check out his podcast and blog for boxing, MMA, jiu-jitsu, and even weird stuff like sumo wrestling!

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50 min
February 26, 2021 Sumo Fitness #5: Season Finale

Join Mak, Jake, and Ed for our fifth and final (for now) episode on learning to exercise like a sumo wrestler. Check out ussumo.org for more on the United States Sumo Federation.

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33 min
January 30, 2021 Haru 2021 Banzuke Prediction
Join Ryan and Jake to predict the banzuke for March. What will become of the wrestlers who had to sit out for covid precautions? Nobody's really certain.

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47 min
January 28, 2021 Hatsu 2021 Recap
6 years in a row now we have had a surprise winner in January. Enjoy this and other fascinating fun facts in our action-packed recap of the basho.

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1 hr 45 min
January 17, 2021 Hatsu 2021 Midway
*SPOILERS THROUGH DAY 8*

Sorry to get this one out late, some scheduling conflicts going on in the GSB family. Let us know who you think is going to win in yet another weird January basho.

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52 min
January 07, 2021 Hatsu 2021 Preview
2021 brings us it's first tournament with a lot of storylines at the top of the division. This is going to be a wild one.... If it isn't cancelled...

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1 hr 32 min
January 02, 2021 Hatsu 2021 Banzuke Review with Leonid
Happy New Year and good riddance to 2020! We're joined by Tachiai.org's Leonid to review the banzuke for January.

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56 min
December 29, 2020 2020 Popularity Poll Results
Check out our results from our second annual popularity poll. Big thank you to everyone who responded and helped spread the word, we got way more responses than last year! Let us know if there are any particular comparisons or results you'd like to hear more about.

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1 hr 7 min
December 22, 2020 2020 Year End Award Show
It's finally here! The gargantuan, star-studded, literally-marathon-length recap episode to the hot mess of a year that was 2020. With special guests: Sumo Kaboom, Mr JWags, USSF's Ed, Sumo Mainichi, Tachi-Ai's Andy, Jason Harris, and our field correspondent B! Stay tuned after the credits for our favorite GSB punishments of the year.

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3 hr 9 min
December 21, 2020 Sumo Fitness #4: Koshiwari
Part 4 of our series on sumo fitness focuses on stretching out those hips.

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33 min

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This is Grand Sumo Breakdown, a sports talk show about professional sumo. Keep an eye out for our main episodes where we preview and recap each tournament and bonus episodes on other topics specific…