SUMO WRESTLER WANTS TO BECOME RAP STAR

SUMO WRESTLER WANTS TO BECOME RAP STAR

TOKYO (Wireless Flash) -- A retired sumo wrestler is now tackling something bigger: a career as a rap singer. The wrestler -- named Konishiki -- hopes his Hiroshima-style hip- hop will become as big as Shaquille O'Neal's hip-hop sounds. You be the judge. The wrestler-turned-rapper's first single includes the lyrics: "I be the Sumo in Japan/ From another land/ I came to put it down/ Since I first touched ground." Konishiki is already a big star in Japan -- literally. He wears a size 10XX T-shirt and his sarongs require at least 5 yards of fabric -- and that's after losing 100 pounds to get him in shape for an upcoming U.S. tour.