Sumo in pubs

Thursday 31 December 1992 00:02 GMT

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Forget darts, bar billiards, skittles and shove-ha'penny. The biggest craze around the pubs and clubs of the West Midlands is sumo wrestling. Participants wear flesh-coloured foam rubber body suits, complete with loin cloths and inflatable stomachs. Colin Floyd got the idea after watching the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics. With his brother, Wayne, he used redundancy money from BT to set up an entertainments business, which has been inundated with requests for sumo wrestling nights

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