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Akebono left the Sumo Association in November to join K His koenkai , or supporters network, had dissolved after his marriage in , depriving him of a valuable source of income. At the time of his debut, Akebono was involved in a highly publicized matchup at K-1 Premium against popular superheavyweight fighter Bob Sapp.
Outweighing Sapp by over pounds, Akebono pushed him towards the ring corners with energetic, fast punches, but his stamina fell minutes into the round. The more experienced Sapp then attacked him with low kicks and punching combinations to the head and body, knocking the yokozuna down twice before finishing him by KO at Some months later, Akebono followed with another high level match, this time against the famed Musashi.
Akebono had improved his conditioning under Ray Sefo and Fai Falamoe and outweighed Musashi by more than twice his weight, so there was expectation about his performance. However, the yokozuna would shock the crowd through unsportsmanlike conduct in the second, as he suddenly started unloading illegal hooks and rabbit punches on a seated Musashi when the latter slipped and fell. Referee Nobuaki Kakuda warned Akebono while the fight looked to be stopped in a DQ, but a still dazed Musashi insisted to keep on. After Akebono ended the match with a new foul, a sumo throw, unanimous decision was given to his opponent.
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During the fight, Roufus avoided being cornered by Akebono's pushes and counterattacked with kicks and punches, but it failed to damage the much bigger yokozuna. At one point, Akebono even pushed away Peoples himself. Ignored his opponent's signature high kicks, Akebono pressed with punches and pushes, but Bonjasky kept dodging and attacking, even landing a sharp kick to the head by springing from the top rope. The bout transpired this way until the third round, when Bonjasky scored a roundhouse kick that knocked Akebono out.
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In March , Akebono was granted a place in the K-1 Korea Grand Prix, whose first round saw him facing Nobuaki Kakuda , a 44 years old Seidokaikan Karate fighter who usually refereed his matches. Through his usual strategy, Akebono surprisingly dominated the match, as Kakuda was unable to mount an offense. After wearing Kakuda down with knees and uppercuts while leaving him no space to counterattack, Akebono was given his first win by unanimous decision.
He would advance round to face a fellow superheavyweight, Choi Hong-man , who had just defeated another former sumo in Wakashoyo. It would be the first time Akebono found an enemy capable to outwrestle him, given Choi's pounds and strong ssireum background, and it showed when the Korean stopped Akebono's first charges, capitalizing too on his large reach to strike freely. However, the match was stopped at only 24 seconds when the yokozuna's corner threw the towel.
Akebono lasted longer, but he found the same problems as the first time, with Choi scoring repeated jabs from the safety of his reach while he blocked the sumo's push and charge style.
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Akebono was eventually knocked down, and although he resumed his attack, Choi knocked him out to end the match. The sumo champion neutralized Ologun's striking by taking him down and smothering him during the earlier rounds, but he was later stunned by a barrage of punches and controlled for the rest of the match, losing the decision. As usual, Akebono used his size, charging through Frye's punches and clinching him against the ropes and corners.
He controlled the first round, but became fatigued at the second, moment in which Frye came back with punches, dropping Akebono multiple times. After some ground and pound , Frye locked a guillotine choke for the win. The yokozuna tried his best to control the fight, but Choi did the same, delivering even a flying knee during the first round. At the last of the second round, the Korean landed a left hook that knocked Akebono out. Akebono's last MMA match saw him meeting professional wrestler Giant Silva , another sizable opponent. The sumo started the match pushing Silva against the ropes, both of them almost falling out of the ring due to the combined weigh, but Silva interrupted his attack by locking a Kimura lock standing.
Although they went to the mat with Akebono on top, Silva finally rolled him over and submitted him to the hold. With this last result, Akebono managed only one win in 14 bouts in his K-1 and mixed martial arts career.
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Because of this, he was referred to as "Makebono" make meaning "lose" in Japanese by some fight fans and magazines in Japan. On 31 March , Akebono made an appearance on SmackDown!
At WrestleMania 21, Akebono defeated Big Show with a koshinage , throwing him entirely out of the ring. Akebono took on the role of Mutoh's enforcer and forming a tag team called "Mutoh Room" to combat the heel stable Voodoo-Murders. Later, Akebono and Mutoh competed in the Real World Tag League , during the tournament, making it all the way to the finals, but were defeated by Team 3D. At the end of the year, Akebono won the Tokyo Sports award for "Rookie of the Year" and "Team of the Year" with Mutoh, who then stated that Akebono had successfully graduated from his lessons, and was then released from his contract to move to other companies and gain experience.
After the match, Akebono announced that he had been hired by NJPW and was congratulated by Rikio, promising to team again in the future, which never happened due to Rikio having to retire due to his injuries in Months later, after the championship had become vacant, Akebono participated in a tournament for it, defeating Hiroyoshi Tenzan in the first round, but being eliminated by Giant Bernard in the second.
In August , Akebono participated in the G1 Climax tournament defeating the likes of Togi Makabe and Hiroyoshi Tenzan , but coming up short in the end. During his stay at New Japan, Akebono began to show his comedic side and began imitating and parodying other fighters. He defeated Togi Makabe and Hiroyoshi Tenzan but failed to progress to the semifinal stage.
Under the name Monster Bono, Akebono was introduced being unrealistically born from a giant egg before easily defeating RG in his first bout. After that, Monster Bono who had a simple, childlike personality , under the control of his mother, entered the service of Takada Monster Army and competed against several other wrestlers in a winning streak. However, due to the constant abuse from Yinling, and wanting to meet his father, Monster Bono rebelled against it and left the Monster Army, changing his name to Bono-chan and allying with A-chan and Yoshie-chan to form a sumo-style face stable.
Soon after, Yinling faced Bono-chan and demanded that he return to the Monster Army, but the outcome of the battle was a victory for Bono-chan, and Yinling kayfabe died under his weight. In retaliation to this, Toshiaki Kawada and Mr. Kawada Toshiaki's elder father scheduled a match between them and Bono and his father, The Great Muta, at Hustlemania Bono and Muta came victorious, but were attacked by The Esperanza , leading Muta to sacrifice himself to drag Esperanza to the underworld.
Akebono also participated in the Fire Festival defeating several other wrestlers, but failed to win in the end. On 23 September , Akebono and Hama, known collectively as S. Partisan Forces broke up in June , so Akebono reformed S. At the end of he was engaged to Yu Aihara, a television tarento , but broke it off the following year.
In April he was hospitalized after feeling unwell while on a wrestling tour in Kitakyushu. Akebono's wife confirmed in March that her husband had suffered acute heart failure in the incident and was in a medically induced coma for two weeks. He lost nearly pounds, much of it in muscle, and could not walk as of March , requiring the use of a wheelchair.
He was to begin intensive physical therapy. A news article from 2 January stated that he had lost use of his legs and suffers from partial memory loss. He was unable to remember his pro-wrestling days after retirement from Sumo and was for a short period unable to speak without the aid of his wife. Although still unable to walk, he attended a memorial service for his former tsukebito Ushiomaru at Azumazeki stable in December From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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