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What happened to Chiyoshoma this basho? He got his kachikoshi with direct, straight-forward sumo, and had some really good wins. Did the virus change something in his head?

I always have this feeling with him, he's not in my favourite wrestlers list at all.

Except if we are in Mahler's 9th ;)

If Akiseyama's belly wasn't so huge, for sure Hoshoryu would have been losing clearly xD. As to Ura, I would quite immediatly. Ok, he will go makekoshi, but a minimum one, so he will drop just a few spots in the banzuke. I don't get this behaviour. And Midorifuji's case maybe is not so easy, but anyway he doesn't look in good condition at all.

you mean "buth house", then xD

Hoping to see a white stripe in his hair soon

And, if Terunofuji doesn't get promoted (although I'm sure he will), how many wins should Takayasu pile to regain his old sekiwake slot forcing an extra one? Those times when he was wearing that light grey mawashi. 10, 11?

I'm still afraid of Takayasu. I know Shodai is fighting bad, and Takakeisho is not exactly "crushing" it, but both of them have given Takayasu many problems in the last two years. Anyhow, the ex-ozeki is doing his best sumo in ages: calm, patient, and close to the floor, I mean, with his hips lower than usual. He has been my favourite since I came back to sumo, but many times he fights like a bear dancing with a tambourine in a gipsy camp. Now finally, and maybe thanks to Kisenosato, he's much more compact and with a low center of gravity. And his injuries are finally behind him. I hope he can keep this flow up and get his first well deserved yusho.

Well, chanko in Tokiwayama beya has for sure more sugar than other heyas

Kakuryuu probably just wants to mount the dohyo once more. I don't think he's just fooling around, and trying to make things unneccesary longer. Since he got citizenship, his immediate future is not a problem anymore. But if you have reached the top of the sport after many years of hard work, you don't want to be injured, not show up for some tournaments, and suddenly say you retire. So I understand him, and I don't see any "obscure" reasons there. If that it's a mockery of the rank, that's another thing to talk about.

Some "important" changes in the aesthetics. Chiyotairyu's sideburns have disappeared, and the blue mountain it's now...green? I thought that would never happen. Hakuho's withdrawal is such a pity. Of course we had great tournaments lately without the GOAT, but I really missed him anyway. I love his killer look before the bouts... and usually the bouts themselves.

I guess if we don't have them in Haru we won't in Natsu either, at least one of them

Based on the weight more than the face, I would say Chiyotaisei. But not sure at all.

We always could create a new thread named "Preparations to become Y/O after Haru 2021"

I thought the same about the Kotoshogiku's ones.