Sivodsi

Ouch and ouch! At least they both look more rueful than in pain afterwards. Indeed, kyoku seems positively jovial.

Oh, I found out that this somersault trick was done in the aki 94' tournament, and apparently was not credited with the win because he didn't touch his hands down at the tachiai. I did manage to find a Kyokudozan clip on youtube: Not the somersault, but impressive for other reasons. Any chance of some keen member getting a collection of favorite sumo clips together on youtube?

Wow, that's the bout alright. Thanks for posting that - awesome picture! No trace of it on video? What's Kyokudozan doing now? I thought he was entering politics or something?

Maaate! thanks for the link, am downloading now. I will not fast forward through anything! The Konishiki-Mainoumi matchups were a feature of basho when I was in Japan the first time round (95 to 98), I saw many of them live on TV. It was fun until Konishiki as good as ended Mainoumi's career by sitting on him. Aye, t'were ne'er the same after that. Brilliant stuff: now if I can just find the kyokudozan bout...

Hi there, Anybody remember this bout? Think it was in the Nagoya basho '96, when Kyokudozan somersaulted over Asanowaka and pushed him out from behind. Does anybody know if this clip is on any of the dvds, or is available in any form? I was in Japan when I saw it, but would love to see it again. Anybody else got any memorable bouts they would like to see?

Wow, can't believe that there is a thread with this title. This is Baruto's second basho and you're writing him off already??? It is, of course, far too early to say. From the years I've spent watching sumo it seems there is a fairly common pattern of a newly promoted makuuchi wrestler getting double digit wins on his first basho in the top rank, then failing to do so well in the next basho before either moving on or settling. As it happens, Baruto has the healthy record of 6-3 so far, and while he doesn't do so well against the better wrestlers, I am pretty sure his time will come. Afterall, you could see from the way he outmuscled Kotooshu that with more experience he will be a real handful for even the best rikishi. I am sure that even Kotooshu will get his act together for the final promotion if/when he gets his body back into condition again. The way he is wrestling now you can see that he is not 100% physically okay, once his body heals up he will be challenging for the yusho again.