Mongolian Ex Sumo Wrestler Announces Candidacy For Parliament

SAITAMA, JAPAN - MAY 15: Former Mongolian Sumo wrestler Davaagiin Batbayar poses at Saitama Prefectural Government on May 15, 2008 in Saitama, Japan. Batbayar who was known as "Kyokushuzan" when he was a sumo wrestler will run for the opposition Democratic Party of Mongolia against the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party who dominate the Monglian parliament .Batbayar became an entrepreneur after he retiring suddenly from sumo wrestiling in November 2006. Election day for The State Great Assembly is June 29. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)