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He was always a bit more emotional than your average rikishi, for better or worse (often for worse). To his credit though, he actively tried to calm himself down with a pre-bout routine involving some kind of unspoken eye-contact conversation with his tsukebito in the hanamichi. I guess with his injuries, he just knew he wasn't returning to that brief sparkle of form he had a few years ago. Still, I think his success was a fine validation of the new sandanme-tsukedashi system. I wish him well.

I love these half-time classics. I really hope we get to see Kotoshogiku and Kisenosato in old boy sumo one day.

They're basically a heya of college rikishi, so that's not overly surprising.

Throwback to that time he got his kinboshi on his freshly injured knee.

Shimanoumi's unfortunate run continues.... got mis-announced at "Shimazuumi" during the juyro dohyo-iri.

Tokihayate and Shonannoumi just had the bout of the tournament.

Asanowaka seemingly a late withdrawal.

I wonder if this is the end for Asashiyu.

Could that be after the Kisenosato bout Aki 2018? I only remember it because he was so exhausted he was pulling faces like that up the hanamichi.

And not only him, but his stablemates too. That's a real shame.

On the contrary, the one thing you can expect from Shodai is that he'll wake up to spoil somebody else.

Kyushu 2017 sticks out in my mind. You had the Harumafuji scandal break, and Hakuho's infamous mono-ii attempt. To make matters worse, the actual tournament itself was a complete dud.

Good thing Oshoryu dropped off the leaderboard today.

I don't know what's up between these two guys, but they seem to bring angry sumo against each other.

I'm still not used to seeing Gaga that slim.