ryafuji

Myogiryu looked like a textbook shini-tai to me. That Hakuho bout was hilarious - reminded me of his escape against Takarafuji.

1. Daishoho MK 2. Tomokaze KK 3. Wakatakakage KK 4. Toyonoshima KK 5. Hoshoryu MK 6. Sakabayashi KK 7. Takakeisho 10-5 8. Myogiryu MK 9. Tochiozan MK 10. Yago KK 11. Terutsuyoshi MK 12. Enho KK TB 13

Really? I recall reading on the forum that Yamamotoyama resumed chanko duties when he fell from sekitori rank and Satoyama became Baruto's tsukebito again when he fell back to makushita. (although maybe that was because Onoe was a small heya with several sekitori who needed looking after).

Well I'm glad it's not the other way around as I imagine his memories of sumo are much happier ones.

Who is the heaviest active rikishi?

Would love an answer to this.... just saying.

Musashimaru also never had a make-koshi without a withdrawal as a sekitori. In his case, he didn't have any withdrawals either until after he became a yokozuna.

Why 0%? Harumafuji still had one.

American English maybe. Certainly not in the UK.

Gotta be Chiyonokuni vs Shohozan.

I read the whole post. That sentence still gave the impression, to me anyway, that you were correcting a supposed "error" in John Gunning's article.

That's how all the old English language sumo books translate it.

Jeez, how pedantic. Anyway, it's still their first. First and only.

I believe it's Keiko.

He holds the record for the longest ever gap betwwen makuuchi tournaments - after being demoted from makuuchi in July 2007 it took him 37 basho to return in January 2014. He never managed a makuuchi kachi-koshi in six attempts but you are correct that he managed to stay in the sekitori ranks from September 2012 until July 2017, a remarkable run for someone of his size and age.