Was that Hakuho/Ichinojo incident that time when Hakuho was annoyed at how easily Ichinojo gives up on the defensive, or am I thinking of a different one?
I'm pretty sure he dame-oshi'd him more than once.
Never seemed quite the same after his knee injury, and the decline/retirement of the old Onomatsu oyakata.
He was one of this next big things when I first started watching, getting three consecutive 10-5s from his Makuuchi debut.
I admired him more than I was a fan of his actual sumo, which seems to be a common feeling here.
Just look at his sumo upbringing. An oni dad -> Saitama Sakae -> Takanohana-beya. That's how a 170-something tall guy with slightly stumpy arms makes Ozeki at 22.