MrGrumpyGills

I'm sorry, but isn't the last part of this quote uncalled for?

As for my irrelevant 2 cents: I don't watch female athletes for one simple reason. To me they are boring to watch. For the same reason I don't watch soccer, tennis or racing sports, regardless of the participating athletes' gender. Am I suppressing women or discriminating against them because of my preferences? No, of course not. Am I afraid of them? No, LOL. I guess I'm one of those folks ;) Enho isn't the only small rikishi. His size doesn't matter to me, I enjoy the diverse body types and wrestling styles in sumo. I just don't like the arguably overblown hype about him, especially by new sumo fans (to quote a Youtube comment: "Enho basho or we riot!" - ehhh? XD).

Haha, true as well :)

That's definitely true. I simply thought - finally there's an opponent equal in size and here Ishiura goes and henka's. Perfectly ok but extremely boring.

Ok, that was just lame, Ishiura...

Thank you very much! I checked the database first, but I'm really bad at using those queries :/

I don't really have an opinion about Takakeisho's Yokozuna chances at the moment, but I was wondering - would he be the shortest Yokozuna ever?

Congratz to Takakeisho! What a relief :)

I didn't get to see much of Takanoyama since I only started watching Sumo in 2013 but I was and still am one of Ura's fans. The Ura bandwagon, while it admittedly could be a bit too much, didn't irritate me the way Enho's does. What annoys me the most is the comparison of Enho with Hinomaru (from Hinomaru Sumo, which, let's just say, is not my cup of tea), which I think especially some new fans of Sumo like to do. At least I keep reading about it in comments on Youtube and in livestream chatrooms. On the other hand of course it's great that popular rikishi like Enho are drawing more attention to Sumo. I'm just going to wait for the hype/craze to die down a bit ;)

Wow, how on earth did Asanoyama survive that?? :O

Enho didn't put both hands down either :O (just wanted to mention that for the sake of completeness, not in order to start a flame war or something)

I don't have the required inside knowledge but your reasoning seems plausible to me. At the very least the added weight increases the risk of knee injuries (and of course other long-term ailments). Maybe if/when Hakuho becomes an oyakata and continues to raise slimmer, more muscular and agile rikishi he could gradually affect some change?

That was beautiful. It's great to see that such a wonderful and sincere friendship between men is still possible. Heartfelt congratulations to Tomokaze for his second kinboshi!

Yeah, that would s*ck really bad

I didn't notice that while I watched the livestream and feared Takakeisho's knee was giving him trouble again...