Don’t let size fool you. This is the meeting of two badass dudes. On the left is American actor Mark Wahlberg and on the right, we have Mongolian sumo grand champion Asashoryu Akinori.

In this photograph by Koji Sasahara, we see the two shake hands in Tokyo. Wahlberg is in Tokyo to promote director Antoine Fuqua’s latest film about a former Marine sniper called ‘Shooter.’ I presume Asashoryu is there to lend legitimate support for the film. But naturally the meeting of the two begs the question: Who is the bigger badass?

After a little bit of searching I found this website that had the following to say about Mark Wahlberg:

His parents divorced when he was 11; his mother has since blamed her own emotional neglect for her youngest son’s descent into juvenile delinquency during the next several years. At 14, Wahlberg dropped out of school and began making his living on the streets—hustling, stealing, and selling drugs. Two years later, he hit rock bottom when he was jailed for his role in the savage beating of a Vietnamese man. Although the crime was believed by many to be racially motivated, Wahlberg has continually denied that race played a part in the attack.

I have no idea if that is true or not. I never got the impression that Marky Mark was a raciest. For Asashoryu’s part, he was considered relatively lightweight for a sumo at 129 kg when he first came on to the scene. Of course that was in 2001. He began bulking up to 131 kg in 2002, 140 kg by 2004, and is now about 148 kg (326 pounds), right on average.

So who is the bigger badass? You decide.