FWIW, Asashoryu, Kaiho, Musoyama, and Shimotori were current sumo wrestlers(rikishi) when this story was written. Our Asashoryu is Mongolian, but(at the time of the story's writing) was considered a dai-yokozuna, one of the best wrestlers in history. Excellent performance often leads to exceptional wrestlers from that same heya to repeat the name. This is done to inspire the wrestler to achieve the greatness of his namesake, and possibly to transfer some of the spirit of greatness into the new wrestler. That is a long way of saying that wrestling names often repeat, and a future yokozuna being named Asashoryu would be very possible. Given his actions in the past 2-4 years, there is very little possibility that any future rikishi will be named Asashoryu.
The writer definitely knows quite a bit about sumo, the bout described at the beginning was a picture-perfect and accurate as you could possibly be.
I'm not sure why I was left with a mediocre response to this the first time I heard it, as a second listening has shown it to be right up my alley, and quite enjoyable.
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The cow says "Mooooooooo"