Re: Great Names in Sporting History.

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There's a sumo wrestler who goes by Moriurara who's been wrestling professionally, albeit at a very low level, for 21 years. He initially wrestled as Morikawa, but after losing 38 straight tournaments since his professional debut, someone came up with the nickname Moriurara for him by combining Morikawa's name with that of Haru Urara, a Japanese racehorse who had become famous for never winning. Savagely, this stuck and became his ring name, and of course, dude couldn't even be a screw-up correctly because right after the name change, he finally achieved his first tournament victory (in sumo, this just means you win more matches than you lose - not that you're necessarily undefeated). Luckily, he didn't win a single bout in the next tournament and is currently on a 28-tournament losing streak. He's also a uniquely unkempt looking guy in a sport that values hygiene and supposedly the reason he's still wrestling is because he faces homelessness otherwise. Wacky sport.

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