Sumo Rocked by Champ's Alleged Beer Bottle Assault

Going after a fellow sumo wrestler in the ring is quite all right. 

Outside the ring, and with a beer bottle, not so much. Hence why star athlete Harumafuji of Mongolia, one of only four active wrestlers to have achieved sumo's highest rank of grand champion, has thrown the sport into disarray after allegedly assaulting a fellow wrestler at a party late last month, reports the Telegraph

The 33-year-old had been drinking with fellow wrestlers in Tottori, Japan, when he reportedly began criticizing 27-year-old Takanoiwa's "poor attitude" and hit him over the head with a beer bottle "as punishment," Kyoto News reports, per the Guardian. The assault allegedly didn't end there.

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