Shoes on Kinboshi ruling

[Kintamayama]

Kitanoumi Rijicho and Futagoyama Oyakata (the Shimpan-bucho,head of referees) conferred today and decided not to award Shoes-on a kinboshi. Since there never was a Yokozuna hansoku, they decided to rule that all five non-kimarites do not merit a kinboshi as a general rule.

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[Hashira]

I don't like this decision. In the Shuzan case, it was correct, because he would have lost the match if shoryu had not committed hansoku.

however, it is quite possible that there could be a match where a kinboshi is clearly about to occur, when a yokozuna commits hansoku, which would rob the rikishi of his kinboshi. I think that they should consider them on an individual basis.