just_some_guy

Bit of pedantry here, but Aminishiki had an 8-7 in his third to last Basho

Y: Onosato - 3 Hoshorty - 1 O: Aonishiki - 1 And ummmmm... IDK, let's give one to Oho at M7 I guess.

I would like to thank Tommy Fuji for predictably not living up to the hopes I once had for him and thereby bringing me this yusho.

I believe the kimarite would be "tushipushi."

Kotokuzan's usual facial expression has always looked "surprised" to me in the past. This basho, his look of perpetual surprise is gone and he's 5-0. Coincidence?

I just got back home from it. Some pics below. Was surprised to see former Ichinojo there (orange mawashi). Blue mawashi is former Hokutomaru. https://photos.app.goo.gl/iL462rwxbRctf56D7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/CtbWrfzuUt5h8xUn7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/6tC2ZmHWf4LWBakZ8

Little good that did him, unfortunately.

Thanks for the info. I've seen him in quite a few of their videos so he must be a frequent visitor.

Not entirely off-topic so I'm putting it here; apologies if it annoys anyone. Who is this rikishi? Second from the right. Looks like a white guy, so presumably a foreigner (though I thought Hoshoryu was their lone foreigner). Appears to have a sekitori mawashi. Image is a screenshot from the stories on Tatsunami beya's Instagram page. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDyc4ql9uIFYU32KPwe1H2hoOotPiHw9/view?usp=sharing

"I will gambarize, but only a little bit."

Apologies if this was already posted, but I didn't find any instances of it.

I'd rank this surprise well below that of Tokushoryu. Kotoshoho is still young-ish and I recall at least a little hype about his potential not long ago. Tokushoryu was 30something, was long established as a pedestrian Makuuchi guy who wasn't really even looking impressive in Juryo anymore. He was, by all appearances, approaching the tail end of his career and even returning to Makuuchi from Juryo wasn't a given. We'll see how the future plays out for Kotoshoho, but the rest of Tokushoryu's career emphasized what a wild, flukey occurrence his yusho was. Just my opinion though and I will absolutely grant you that Kotoshoho was on my list of people I didn't ever expect to win a yusho.

It was Takakeisho, but I couldn't tell you what year, much less basho. I just remember Hakuho standing there like it was butsukari.

I've not researched it too extensively, but banzuke movement in the past seems to have been wilder than today's. I frequently will be looking at past rikishi's records and see violent upward movement on a fairly weak record. (Recent example I noticed being Konishiki going 8-7 and getting promoted from M9 to M2 July/Sept 1997). I do realize those odd jumps still happen based on contextual banzuke movement, but at least to my eye it seems they were more common "back in the day." Not sure if this can be logically extended to Ozeki promotions, but who knows, and there's no basho on at the moment so what else do I have to talk about?

He was chaos incarnate on the dohyo. I will also remember him for his 15-basho streak of alternating kachikoshi/makekoshi.

From experience I can tell you no.

Perhaps I didn't do this query correctly, but it looks like the last time someone had back to back yusho at Ozeki without getting a rope was 1950. I'd be interested to see any examples that I missed, and I'd bet you at least three hot dogs that any Onosato yusho next basho--even an 11-4--gets him a Yokozuna promotion. Edit to add: Yes, there were no 11-4s in my query example but I don't think it'll matter.

Do you mean jun-yusho? Because I think two yusho in a row will do it, regardless of what the yusho record is next basho.

Voodoo snacks.

I meant this one they mentioned: "There’s another channel that shows every bout the rikishi have from this stable. " I took that to mean basho matches; the sumofood channel only shows training.

Could you link this for us? I had found one before but it's disappeared.

I agree with most of this but will pass on the English commentary. Apart from Murray Johnson I find them all unbearable and would prefer the Japanese commentary. I can pick out "mawashi" and "yorikiri" and whatnot well enough without actually knowing Japanese.

Whatever it is, I hope (and would assume) it comes with a way to watch after the fact. I'm usually asleep by the time Makushita matches are finished.

Baruto, you say?

That's definitely part of the contrast. When I started watching (2015ish maybe?) we had three Yokozunae and (I think) four Ozeki. Anyone who reached K/S promptly got smacked back down to the M ranks. Different times indeed.