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Quodio Stotes posted:Yea they go through that in the video I posted. Its not just yakuza I know, its ingrained in the sport. If you watch the clip they found that they only stopped cheating for like a year after they got caught then went right back to it, its kind of sad. It happens in matches that arent 7-7 matches as well. Interestingly, I'm not sure it would be such a big deal if it were only 8-6 wrestlers losing to 7-7 wrestlers at a high rate, without any evidence that the 7-7 wrestlers tended to give back the wins the next time they played. It would hardly be the only sport/competition where teams/individuals with nothing to play for often gave away points/games to competitors who needed a win. In fact, you might simply expect such results due to the fact that the wrestler with nothing on the line might not want to push themselves with injuries or fatigue from a long tournament. Which doesn't make it right (implicitly, it hurts competitors elsewhere in the competition who might benefit from the other results), but without a formal framework for the whole thing, it's a much lesser form of collusion. Which also made me think that if you wanted to give this thread a snarkier title, it could be "Sumo - It's just pigs colluding."
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