Oskanohana

Sad news. My best wishes for the family. Fuck cancer.

Prev.Rank Score East Rank West Score Prev.Rank Ms5e 5-2 Nishinoryu Ms1 Kitanowaka 4-3 Ms3w Ms5w 4-3 Takakento Ms2 Otsuji 4-11 J12w Ms14w 6-1 Nagamura Ms3 Shimanoumi 3-12 J12e Ms6w 4-3 Wakanosho Ms4 Kamito 5-2 Ms10w Ms2w 3-4 Mudoho Ms5 Goshima 4-3 Ms9e Ms10e 4-3 Toseiryu Ms6 Fukuzaki 5-2 Ms15w Ms11e 4-3 Kazuto Ms7 Yoshii 5-2 Ms18e J10e 0-5-10 Mitoryu Ms8 Nabatame 0-0-15 J10w Ms14e 4-3 Matsui Ms9 Shohoryu 6-1 Ms28w Ms4e 3-5 Satorufuji Ms10 Inami 3-4 Ms6e Ms21e 5-2 Seihakuho Ms11 Narutaki 5-2 Ms21w Ms4w 2-5 Dewanoryu Ms12 Chiyomaru 4-3 Ms16w Ms17e 4-3 Tenshoho Ms13 Tochimusashi 3-4 Ms8w Ms9w 3-4 Akua Ms14 Kotokenryu 4-3 Ms20w Ms39w 6-1 Awanokuni Ms15 Yago 6-1 Ms40w This would be my guess for GTB Makushita jo'i edition. So I agree with @Reonito on the top 10. Maybe he-who-can-be-named Toseiryu has an outside chance if they want to boot Mudoho. I wouldn't bet on it. I don't know if they'll separate the kyujo pair of Mitoryu and Nabatame and give an appearance bonus to Mitoryu as they do sometimes in the lower divisions. Maybe they demote him 10 ranks to Ms6 and Nabatame the usual 12 to Ms8. Then, the Satorofuji 8 bouts issue. I don't want to put him behind Inami, as they won the same bouts, and also the 2-5's in the top-10 have been treated inconsistently lately methinks. I slotted a couple fellas between him and rank-partner Dewanoryu. The top 30 has Ms27w Gyotoku (5-2) as a perfectly valid option, maybe as high as Ms14 even, but I can't resist putting there the true runner-up from this basho, Yago. Next best option should be Ms11e Oshoryu(3-4), but he seems clearly out of contention.

Yeah, I shouldn't write on forums on the internet. What a waste of time. I'd better look on the Interwebs for a usual place for demonstrations in Spain to try to show off to a guy who just made a comment regarding the last kyujo bout and a bunch of direct answers that were mostly memes. Good luck being the fun police.

Without including this one, 17 tournaments in a row in juryo: 5 KK (none better than 9-6) - 12 MK (7 of them 5-10 or worse) We have a saying in spanish that would translate like this: "There's none so blind as he who will not see"

As for the lower division yusho races, I'll wait for @Asashosakari's excellent summary, but I just wonder if they'll do Gonowaka vs Kaki or they will throw a couple of 5-1's their way to stay within their division boundaries. Let's say Kyoda for Kaki and some Jd60-70's for Gonowaka.

Sanyaku M18 watch: Ozeki Kotonowakazakura(6-5) stood strong today against time itself and is one step closer to kachikoshi. Sekiwake Kiribayamashima(8-3) spoiled horrendously a completely winning position against Onosato and is making life harder for himself if he's keen on building an ozeki-run. Sekiwake Wakatakakage (7-4) dispatched Hakuoho and is guaranteed a spot in sanyaku for Aki. Komusubi M1e Aonishiki (9-2) defeated Abi and will debut in sanyaku for real next basho. Maegashira Komusubi Takayasu(8-3) defeated....Abi??? Him too?....I don't know, let's call this guy he defeated .....Abikuron....in a banger of a fight, guaranteeing his stay in sanyaku. Wouldn't it be funny for him to force a third sekiwake slot with 11 wins after being allowed to stay at komusubi with a measly 6-9? The contenders for komusubi in case that happens (Abi, Tamawashi and Abikuron) all lost today as related. K Oshoma(2-9) is now suuuuurely out of sanyaku, isn't he? For realsies? Tomorrow, Aonishiki will face Tamawashi, Wakatakakage and Takayasu will be used as yusho-stoppers for the low-maegashira pair of Kusano and Kotoshoho. Kotonowakazakura and Kiribayamashima will debate whose name change was more awful and who wishes harder to be a real ozeki-boy. Meanwhile, Onosato will fight Abikuron.

Ryuden showed great restraint to not take out Kimura Juryosuke using Takarafuji as a battering ram. That might earn him points in case there's a close call these last days. Nah, as much as I don't like Abi, slow motion makes you overanalyze things some times. He was just trying to thrust down Aonishiki's head on the flow of the fight and action followed on through the fall. Luckily Aonishiki didn't suffer any injuries. When's the scheduled height of the dohyo debate? Not yet?

Always has been

Of all the rikishi in all the heya in all the ichimon, he walks out of this one.

He had the kachikoshi on day 9. Your theory is invalid.

Then Shimanoumi gets the fusen win. No apparent injuries yesterday for Nishikifuji. One big point for the conspiracy theorists.

On the M18 watch, Ozeki Kotonowakazakura (5-5) is trying his best these last 3 days to end up kadoban and maybe open up a place down low come Kyushu. Sekiwake Kiribayamashima (8-2) won't probably get promoted even with a yusho as his 8-7 result from March is too hard to carry for that. His 11-4 from last basho is good enough, but he'll need a couple of repeats of that and possibly a little bit extra, as being a former ozeki, he'll probably be asked for something definitive to get the rank back. Jo'i mainstay and Ironman Daieisho went kyujo and that will take him out of the jo'i for the first time since 2019 (geez, that long, it's as if somebody cursed him). That leaves us with our 4 usual lower sanyaku. Shin-komusubi Oshoma(2-8) is already makekoshi to nobody's surprise and essentially out of sanyaku because not-shin-komusubi M1e Aonishiki(8-2) has claimed that place already. Kw Takayasu (7-3) and S2w Wakatakakage(6-4) need just one more win each to stay in lower sanyaku, and it's hard to imagine them losing out. M2w Abi(6-4), M4w Tamawashi(8-2) and M8w Abi's-impersonator(9-1) look like the first in line should any of them falter, but they'll need an extremely strong finish anyway as Takayasu's non-demotion showed us last time. Long story short, if nothing really weird happens, M18e will appear on the next banzuke. M18w for Kyushu might be on the cards, fingers crossed.

Agree with Jakusotsu but I presume that from the opposite side of his complaint. Chiyoshoma has decided to decline a position upwards on the banzuke after showing a couple of basho ago that he could perfectly make it in the jo'i, and he'll look for a placid retirement as a Juryo Janitor, that's why he's making sure of his demotion as soon as possible. Maybe he's seen that Tamashoho is prepared to take his place, nobody knows what goes through His Sharp and Quick Mind. Takarafuji shouldn't be named in the same sentence as His Wackiness. He's the complete opposite of that. Solid passive sumo based on strength and balance, yuk! Regarding Ichiyamamoto, I'm not impressed. He's a liar and a deceiver. Not only did he copy the style and mannerisms of Abi, but he's lying with his mere name. The first and best Yamamoto was Mt. Yamamoto (Jabbamotojabba, as he was known to some, First of his Name, Stepper of Phones). Even his amazing shape inspired a song from one of the most famous troubadours of our days. I hope that his pursuers take care of him...(checks leaderboard).....wait, what, Tamawashi!!?? Mitakeumi!!!????, What's going on? Did my time machine finally work?

Yeah, laziness. He got away with too many unneeded pulls on his yok-run because he's on another level of... That's why Hakuoho's recruiter unbeaten streak was so utterly impressive back in the day. @Tigerboy1966 will receive a severe reprimand for naming an unperson.