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He'll also (likely) be retiring young enough to have some good luck recuperating when he isn't at least nominally preparing for basho every couple months. He'll be better off than if he hangs on past his mid-30s, when things start slowing down.

That's a lot of look.

I think you can tell where the stables money went. Oxygen chambers and quality weights aren't cheap. It's like sumo science fiction.

We have had a glut of sanyaku lately, but that's mostly from having a string of short-term ozeki working their way back down the banzuke than anything else.

Seems like they were pretty nice to Nabatame, feels like I've seen them drop people farther for similar performances.

Seems like it came down to a technicality. I feel you on the underwhelming feeling. When championships come down to VAR it just sucks the momentum out of the proceedings.

I don't think Takakeisho is short on self-confidence or self-esteem. I could see him wanting his own stable, whether it's a good idea or not.

I think the quote is, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." If two wins is all he needs to feel comfortable, then two wins is all he needs.

You can tell its satire because who goes to teppanyaki for pork?

Seven stitches over his eye? Hostess bars must be getting rough.

Hopefully being a sekitori will give him better access to higher-end training partners. There was one of those Futagoyama videos a few months ago where the cameraman asked Roga why he wasn't around the stable much and he said he practices with other sekitori in the morning and schmoozes with supporters in the evenings.

There's usually a shuffle like this before someone retires, in this case I'd bet on Myogiryu but there are several it could be.

"Hurt"

Onosato will get tripped up in sdnyaku, Takerufuki will do okay (if he shows), Kirishima is still too beat up, Takakeisho has been saying "I can only do what my body let's me do" so that's bad for him, the other two ozeki are fine. Don't know enough about the rest to even guess. Yellow because why not yellow. Bonus prediction is we get a first-time yusho winner.

Quite a drop for Kotoeko. I knew it would be bad but that's rough.