Will the Ossetian replacements come from Amasumo?

[Kintamayama 45,534]

The average Japanese will be lucky to know who the current yokozuna and ozeki are.

ridiculous comment, (Sign of disapproval...) (Sign of disapproval...) (Sign of disapproval...) and I know it will be attacked, but the only answer is 'do the time' -se what the 'average Japanese' you mention (Laughing...) (In a state of confusion...) really feel.

MB

I haven't done "the time" (you love to bring that up every so often, here is the attack..), but I know quite a few "average Japanese" from here and there, including many embassy staff and actual Japan residents, and an overwhelming majority have no idea. They all know Asashouryuu and KaioU, but would be hard pressed to tell me how many Ozeki there currently are, let alone their names. They look at me in utter astonishment when I say things like "Takekaze" and Tochiouzan". And as their ages go down, the average of people who have any clue goes down with it.

Edited September 19, 2008 by Kintamayama

[Asashosakari 19,669]

I see it's "Mark Buckton randomly behaves like an obnoxious ass to everyone in sight" Day again...my ignore function is getting quite a workout right now. If only it worked on quoted messages, too.

Edit (and the absolutely last thing I'll address to him today): Go away already, Mark - cry your eyes out on the SML or something like you already did a couple of weeks ago, but I'm pretty sure here we're all incredibly tired of your primadonna act.

Edited September 19, 2008 by Asashosakari

[Mark Buckton 1]

The average Japanese will be lucky to know who the current yokozuna and ozeki are.

ridiculous comment, (Laughing...) (In a state of confusion...) (Sign of disapproval...) and I know it will be attacked,

Pierre -Asashosakari - an easy question given that you 'react' to all of my comment - have you ever seen the sport live?

[Mark Buckton 1]

may I presume this answer - like so many others before will achieve a negative response?

Or that it will soon be 'covered'with other answers

[Jakusotsu 6,050]

Mark, we already know you're special. No need to elaborate more.

[Kotoseiya Yuichi 3]

have you ever seen the sport live?

What the (Neener, neener...) has that do with... anything, actually? Do you suddenly understand the meaning of life once a guy in diapers has dropped from dohyo on you?!?! What the ;-) (Applauding...) (Applauding...) is wrong with you?!?!?

Edit: grammar.

Edited September 20, 2008 by Kotoseiya Yuichi

[Sasanishiki 57]

a high-profile amasumo foreigner

I think I understand the concept that you are getting at here: "a foreigner who has proven himself in amateur sumo"

However, let's remember that almost no foreigner who comes into ozumo is "high-profile" because they need to test themselves against the veterans and other skilled recruits as they work their way up. I think the big interest about foreign recruits from amasumo are the unknown factors of how they will adjust to the heya lifestyle and to the quality/intensity of the sumo. This is quite different from peaking for an annual tournament.

The high-profile amasumo recruits are of course the Japanese ones because they have in some way been tested by several years at high school/university clubs and through many tournaments each year. The interest there is whether they will translate that experience into success in ozumo and, especially if they have makushita tsukedashi status, whether they become sekitori.