yorikiried by fate

They press horses?

Noooooo! Not the quasi-namesake of my erstwhile sumo games shikona!! Never saw you fight bro, but peacefully RIP. I won't forget you.

Question: How short-sighted is Hoshoryu? In some of the pictures his glasses look pretty massive, but it might be a trick of the light. Anyway: A thousand thanks for the pictures!! [off to some nostalgic Asashoryu videos browsing...]

Top 5 of consecutive basho without a sub-Ozeki yusho: V.68–XI.71 22 basho XI.76–XI.80 25 V.86–V.91 31 V.93–XI.98 33 XI.01–V.12 63 Tough times to be Wakanosato...

I totally get where you are coming from. Nothing worse than Hakuho's total dominance after Asashoryu was retired. That being said, personally I enjoyed the phase before that, when two to three high performers were fighting for every single yusho, allowing the required wins for winning the thing to slip below 13 only once in eight years. It also made Harumafuji's and Kotomitsuki's Ozeki runs, as well as Kotooshu's yusho so much more memorable. Now you see historically low wins-to-yusho averages. While that can be a source of entertainment, I really don't enjoy the constant threat of Neverheardofazuma yushoing with 12 from M23.

Maybe something banal? An evil draft and back muscles acting up?

Not that I have much to say about sub-forum usability, but to me it feels pretty natural to place this thread type in Honbasho Talk, as the content always becomes available within three days of the basho conclusion. In some way, it cleans up the aftermath. This together with YDC talk and then it's back to general stuff in the other sub-forum. IMHO.

I really like how you explain the history of "dai-status" and also your reasoning for re-evaluation.

@Oskanohana +1 for reviving the nick!

I heard that several species of birds that were thought to have gone extinct started singing again today...

Threads like this, starting with a one line question and erupting into fireworks of research and info condensing, that's what I'm here for!! Well done.

Oh, and he's the third guy after Sadanoyama and Takanohana (II) to have yushoed from four different ranks, like the former missing out only on Komusubi (Takanohana didn't yusho from Sekiwake, instead).

With the latest news, Terunofuji will be the first modern days Yokozuna who never participated in a Yokozuna-Yokozuna-bout. Also, he was completely absent from 7 of his 21 Yokozuna basho (33.3%), which sees him tied for first place with the world's favourite Lifetime-Achievement-Yokozuna, who finished his exceptional stint at the rank at 4 absences out of 12 basho. At least Terunofuji could keep a winning score overall for the rank...

Maybe it's a known thing/featureoid etc. but today I noticed that in the rikishi win lists (English version) the shikona of some dudes (who had name changes at one or more points) are not the most current ones. See Kotozakura for instance, who is listed as Kotonowaka. Just the heads up, if this behaviour is not intended.

Well, at teenage a lot of things feel like crap...