day 15: kasuganishiki vs kaiho

[shimodahito]

good day all,

did anyone watch this bout? kasuga was backing kaiho up, and kaiho--assuming he was going to lose--gave up and relaxed....but did NOT step out of the ring. kasuga on the other hand--assuming he would win after kaiho relaxed--kept walking forward and stepped out of the ring.

even on the replay, i noticed it. kasuganishiki's foot touched well ahead of kaiho.... but the gyoji gave kasuga the win....there was no mono-ii.

i'm not sure if dale has the replay, but i'd like to know if anyone else noticed this.

-shimodahito

by the way....what a great basho. in ulaanbaatar, every car radio had the matches on, two TV stations, and NHK for cable owners. you could hear cars honking the day asa jr. beat kokkai, and the day he beat kaio. and again when asa sr. beat chiyo.

[Kaikitsune Makoto]

Looked like Kasu stepped out yes. This must have been a similar call that is made in NHL (at least few years ago this was custom) than when player shoots the puck maybe 5cm before the red line and there is no pressure on him, icing isn't called as it isn't so important. Maybe the event was so clear that Kaiho had no technique or even hanging in there going when Kasu stepped out that it was looked through fingers. Hard to say. Sloppy move from Kasu but Kaiho's longer step was already a step from given up rikishi. Rules are rules someone says now and compares this with the usual isamiashi in lower divisiions when eager youngsters does yorikiri without paying attention to his feet but still, this was different case.

Interesting in any case.

[Doitsuyama]

Yes, a clear thing. I guess just noone saw it so it went the way it did... Good thing I lost S4 day 15 1-3, otherwise the sloppy gyōji and shinpan also would have stolen me a S4 yūshō. B-)

[aderechelsea]

yeah....................i saw this and i am very >:-(

i would be nice for kaiho a 10-5 record.He only done it once again.......

no problem.....next basho.... ;-)

(he will have many problems next time with the upper ranked rikishis he will be matched up against but i have faith in the "Sea Phoenix")

:-)

[Naganoyama]

yeah....................i saw this and i am very >:-(

i would be nice for kaiho a 10-5 record.He only done it once again.......

no problem.....next basho.... ;-)

(he will have many problems next time with the upper ranked rikishis he will be matched up against but i have faith in the "Sea Phoenix")

:-)

Do you know BTW that his shikona comes from the name of his father's fishing boat?

[Mark Buckton]

good day all,

did anyone watch this bout? kasuga was backing kaiho up, and kaiho--assuming he was going to lose--gave up and relaxed....but did NOT step out of the ring. kasuga on the other hand--assuming he would win after kaiho relaxed--kept walking forward and stepped out of the ring.

even on the replay, i noticed it. kasuganishiki's foot touched well ahead of kaiho.... but the gyoji gave kasuga the win....there was no mono-ii.

i'm not sure if dale has the replay, but i'd like to know if anyone else noticed this.

-shimodahito

by the way....what a great basho. in ulaanbaatar, every car radio had the matches on, two TV stations, and NHK for cable owners. you could hear cars honking the day asa jr. beat kokkai, and the day he beat kaio. and again when asa sr. beat chiyo.

I saw that and was confused why the NHK lads didn't even mention it.

Smells if you ask me :-) :-( ;-) o

[aderechelsea]

Do you know BTW that his shikona comes from the name of his father's fishing boat?

yeah.... i learned it here in the "shikona meaning" thread..... (Laughing...)