{"id":472669,"date":"2026-02-11T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472669\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:47:10","slug":"why-well-never-see-a-yokozuna-in-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472669\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we\u2019ll never see a yokozuna in the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no question gets asked with more regularity in online sumo spaces than \u201cCould a rikishi succeed in the NFL?\u201d or \u201cWould NFL players dominate if they switched to sumo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those questions popped up again this week after several participants in Super Bowl LX discussed their Japanese heritage, and former amateur yokozuna Hidetora Hanada revealed he was considering a switch back to sumo after several years of playing college football in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Despite how often those lines of inquiry arise, the discussion rarely if ever evolves beyond tribalistic defense of which sport is better (or tougher) by the respective fanbases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps no question gets asked with more regularity in online sumo spaces than \u201cCould a rikishi succeed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85,241113],"class_list":["post-472669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-uche-nwaneri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}