Reonito

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    10 hours ago, Amamaniac said:

    That Enho victory over Hakuho in an exhibition bout may well have been Tobizaru's inspiration as to how to beat Hakuho.

    However, the flaw in that plan is that Hakuho fights against the likes of Enho and Ishiura all the time in keiko practice.  Hakuho is used to those tactics and knows exactly how to deal with them.  It just means biding his time until he can get a lethal mawashi grip!  Let your opponent come to you.  Don't try and charge against feisty opponents.  They'll use your forward momentum against you.

     

    The other flaw in that plan is that this wasn't an exhibition bout.

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    1 hour ago, bookkeeper said:

    does the NSK ever release statements clarifying how they adjudicate rules, and is there even any reason to believe they would do so this time around?

    (Laughing...)(Laughing...)(Laughing...)

    next you'll be asking if they explain perplexing banzuke rankings

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    8 hours ago, hakutorizakura said:

    Maybe related to Teru's beautiful kainahineri (or not), is it allowed in sumo to twist/attack your opponent's wrist? Such technique like in aikido AFAIK can easily bring down even a big strong guy. No matter how muscular you are, your wrist stays more less the same size (and strength).

    The only kinjite (forbidden technique) description that comes remotely close is: "bending back one or more of the opponent's fingers.'

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    1 hour ago, Rocks said:

    It was obvious but didn't effect the bout. I would imagine they wish to avoid giving him a bad start on a technical call.  The last thing they want is for his record to go south quickly and have him drop out after all this time with no Yokozuna.

    I think they key is that there wasn't a pull—the moment Hakuho's fingers got tangled in the hair, he pulled them back out. Had he followed through on the move, it probably would have been called.

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    Both are hugely improbable, but at least Mitakeumi already has won the yusho twice, including a 13-2, and isn't starting 0-2. Plus there'd be way more appetite to promote him with a borderline case.

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    14 minutes ago, Eikokurai said:

    Back-to-back Ozeki yusho satisfies the requirements more than enough.

    Which Keisho won't meet. And if we're looking back, the two-win howler in January won't help. If you look at past promotions, 12-3 in the first or the second basho makes for a weak case, as does the absence of Y-Y, and you're arguing for promotion with all 3. We would have had many more promotions if that were the standard.

  20. Posted · Edited by Reonito

    10 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

    I think any yusho 12-3 or above will get the YDC thinking.

    12-3 would give him 24/30. There have been only 3 yokozuna promotions in the 6-basho era with that few wins, and none since the 1960s. All post-Futahaguro promotions have been with at least 26/30. 14-1 at a minimum IMHO.

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    54 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

    It heavily depends on the promotion/demotion picture from juryo. If few slots open in juryo this time then even a strong result may not suffice, but if the bottom drops out of juryo then even a weak 4-3 will do.

    Since 2010, 15/20 Ms2w rikishi with 4-3 scores got promoted. For 5-2 it's 10/10.