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Tamawashi at 1568 consecutive matches, with the record at 1630. Barring injury withdrawal, falling to makushita or retirement, he will break the record on day 3 of Aki 2024

Kyokukaiyu needs to have Nippon Sports Science University added to his profile for university. https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi.aspx?r=12841 Source:

Did Kyokukaiyu belong to a university team or he just hung around waiting for a foreign spot to open up?

This is the first calendar year since 2017 that a hiramaku has not won the yusho, which means for five consecutive years you had a good chance. Last year alone there were three hiramaku yusho.

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Takakento at 4-11 would be more demotable than a 7-8 Chiyosakae in my opinion. Especially they are only moving 4 makushita wrestlers up. If he goes 6-9 then it's another story. But amazingly Shimanoumi managed to put himself out of any conversation for how far he would move down the juryo ranks. What say he gets a very generous bump up the banzuke for January?

Kirishima Churanoumi Myogiryu

Nishikigi Gonoyama Churanoumi

Wakamotoharu Takayasu Tsurugisho

14. Hiradoumi

Denial of promotion from J1E with an 8-7 seems to have happened slightly more than Ms1E or M1E to sanyaku. But even though there is a sizeable number in M1E, the most recent case was 1969. J1E 8-7 failing to promote happened as recently as 1998.

Kakuryu and Terunofuji also had stronger cases that what Takakeisho has right now. Both did not have consecutive yusho, and Terunofuji was promoted with a jun-yusho in the second basho which hadn't happened since both Onokuni and Hokutoumi. But Onokuni's case is even further unique since he went 1Y then 2J to get promoted.

I remember seeing the GOAT use mouthguards

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kotonowaka Hokutofuji Sadanoumi