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Remembrance – Pathetic Story Of The Sumo Wrestler… Died Leaving Behind $47.2m, Just 1 Year Of Marrying A Beauty

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Death is an inevitable part of human existence, but sometimes, the circumstance could leave more questions than answers.

For example, when the deceased had been through thick and thin, eventually making it big, and then exits at the very point of enjoying his sweet.

It is even more controversial when it happens just one year of his marrying a beauty. Well yea, but these are snapshots of the intriguing yet pathetic life of Emmanuel Yärbrough, an American martial artist, professional wrestler, football player and actor.

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He was particularly known by his career in amateur sumo, holding the Guinness World Record for the heaviest living athlete.

One of the many twists to his life was that his rendezvous with sumo wrestling was not planned. It only came about because he couldn’t really find a job despite trying.His undoing was his body weight, and everywhere he went, he was turned down.

But with sumo, Yarbrough seemed to find a suitable job.

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IT was at Morgan State University, that it began and he was an offensive tackle and went by the nickname “Tiny” a metaphor to his large size.and then the feats began to roll in. He got NCAA All-American Division II wrestler status in 1983 and 1985, later ascending to Division I in 1986, while in football he was a Division I in 1982 and 1983.

He was successful in amateur sumo as he was in the professional bracket, befofe venturing into acting.

In fact, he appeared in a 1997 Bollywood film Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi and on several talk shows, as well as in a commercial.

But things took a bitter turn on December 21, 2015 and he died at the age of 51.

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By the age of 14 he already weighed 320 pounds, which he attributed to a poor diet of fried foods, was hospitalized for due to heart failure,

But there was no doubt that he achieved phenomenal success given his very strong strength.

Incidentally, he was not much blessed in the area of good shape, as opposed to the model that he married, he being massive at over 320 pounds and she a paltry 40kg.

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Due to his excessive obesity, he brought a series of problems to his body and finally died one year after his marriage. This really makes people feel very sorry. After all, yarbrough’s reputation in sumo wrestling is still very high.

According to some statistics, sumo wrestlers are usually around 60 years old, which means that when ordinary people begin to enjoy their old age, sumo wrestlers may die. In the face of Yarbrough’s sudden death, his wife was also very sad, but at the same time she inherited 7.2 million dollars

Though sad at his death, his wife is an inheritor of  inherited Abel’s $ 7 million legacy.

Abel ’s wife, Manny said that the two of them had only been married for a year, and even before they had a child, Abel died. He expressed great regret that even with so many heritages, he would be affected by his reputation and could not marry casually.

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