Jemuzu

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  2. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Kaninoyama said:

    Hoshoryu might have gotten away with his hand touching down going unoticed. Looked like a little dirt was flying. But alas, not mono-ii, and a Day 1 win for Asashoryu's nephew, 

    Wakamotoharu - Mitakeumi should have been a monoii too I think 

  3. Posted

    Sad to see, my favourite rikishi since I got into sumo in 2016. His ozeki promotion run was sensational, I remember his bout vs Hakuho where Hakuho said 'I'll beat you at your own game', and lost.

    Really he did well to keep going for as long as he did, he hasn't been able to do 'his brand of sumo' pretty much since he got promoted to Ozeki and has been increasingly reliant on non-yotsu techniques (including the odd henka).

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    12 hours ago, Eikokurai said:

    Oho is struggling to get over the line. That's his third defeat on the trot, from 7-3 to 7-6. At his position he has no margin for error - he needs that 8th win to save himself a return trip to Juryo. Hope he can manage it.

    Incidentally, that's Ishiura's second shitatehineri this basho. That makes him the first man since ... himself in March 2017 to use it twice in one tournament. Satoyama in March 2014 was the last non-Ishiura to double up on that kimarite in Makuuchi.

    Ishiura thoroughly deserves the technique prize 

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  14. Posted

    5 hours ago, Sakura said:

    I agree. Shodai becoming kadoban was the best thing about this basho for me. I am glad that they take lower ranked contenders seriously enough at the moment, but that means they have to break up a number of intra-sanyaku matches. (We've also lost Mitakeumi - Takanosho). The fact that Shodai's matches get sidelined because he's not performing well enough in the first week, and then gets easier opponents to lift him to eight wins was becoming very irritating.

    Absolutely. And while I agree with the decision to match up the yusho contenders in the final days, they could easily have foreseen this and had Shodai face Terunofuji earlier. In a way it would be a rebuke for Shodai - you’re not putting in an Ozeki performance so you don’t get to fight on senshuraku 

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  16. Posted

    8 hours ago, Reonito said:

    This is what something like that would have looked like in the past decade. Kotoshogiku, Kakuryu, and Kisenosato would have made Ozeki sooner, as would Takakeisho, Asanoyama, Shodai and Terunofuji (2nd time). Mitakeumi would be Ozeki twice over by now, and we would have had Ozeki Tochiozan and, very breiefly, Ozeki Daieisho, who would have immediately lost it.

    Maybe in that parallel universe Daieisho took inspiration from his Ozeki promotion and is now Yokozuna Daieisho :-D

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  18. Posted

    19 minutes ago, Gurowake said:

    Of course, we're talking about making it harder to maintain Ozeki when there are so very few of them that I don't know how welcome such a change would seem.

    I think the answer is to make the criteria for Ozeki promotion more lenient, say 30 wins (obviously 33 isn’t a rule anyway) and take a more relaxed approach to a 9 win basho within the 30 or a result achieved outside sanyaku. The quality control against the promoted rikishi then failing to maintain Ozeki standards would be the 10 win requirement. 

  20. Posted

    4 hours ago, Reonito said:

    We've seen plenty of stats illustrating Hakuho's utter dominance, but here's one more set. Hakuho finished 65 basho as Yokozuna. In these 65, he took the yusho 42 times and the jun-yusho 17 times. That's 59 winner or runner-up finishes out of 65 completed tournaments (91%). He recorded double-digit wins in all 65, going 15-0 15 times, 14-1 22 times, 13-2 ten times, 12-3 ten times, 11-4 six times, and 10-5 just twice.

    Surprising the YDC didn’t recommend retirement after the 10-5s

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, Tsuchinoninjin said:

    Maybe instead of banning everyone from social media they could use the rikishi posting to social media to keep easier tabs on them but that would be too simple right?

    They’re probably concerned about the lack of hinkaku shown by Chiyomaru on social media when he used to go round waking everyone up 

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  24. Posted

    23 minutes ago, Tigerboy1966 said:

    I'm thinking that he started his application before his return to sekitori, which is why it didn't get much media attention. Even with Kakuryu, who went through the process in the full glare of late yokozuna-hood, there were a lot of gaps in the coverage.

    That would make sense as a fallback if his comeback didn’t work out