Asa's Arm & Hammer - a first?

[Shomishuu]

Aside from one's personal view of where Asashoryu's blow to Kotooshu belongs on the nasty-meter -- has anyone ever seen anything like it before? (Eating...)

[aderechelsea]

I've seen worse impacts before but not such a reaction, like Kotooshu's.

That's what is amazing.His "glass jaw" as boxers say.

To give him credit he is not that many years in sumo to develop a resilience (is that the correct spelling?) to such hits yet ... he will eventually.

look at the slaps Kaiho was feeded in the recent past against the likes of Tochiazuma, Kokkai, Takanowaka , etc .... he rarely goes down from those anymore. He just forget parts of his childhood (as he said himself) ... (Eating...)

[madorosumaru]

Aside from one's personal view of where Asashoryu's blow to Kotooshu belongs on the nasty-meter -- has anyone ever seen anything like it before?

Edited May 18, 2005 by madorosumaru

[Kintamayama]

And this:

http://www.banzuke.com/~movies/nagoya2003/...aio_tochiazu.rm

[Zentoryu]

Asashoryu's battle with Tochiazuma a while back was pretty brutal, with Tochi winning after having his nose bloodied.

Kotomitsuki's KO of Takanowaka was something too.

And of course the above mentioned Kaio/Tochiazuma clash from 2003.

[Onnagumo]

Does anyone remember that "boxing match" between Musoyama and Chiyotaikai? I don't remember exactly what year that was, but it must have been before 2002, when I started saving every basho on videotape.

[Yubiquitoyama]

Does anyone remember that "boxing match" between Musoyama and Chiyotaikai? I don't remember exactly what year that was, but it must have been before 2002, when I started saving every basho on videotape.

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Yeah, I thought of exactly the same bout. There are no movies from that bout on banzuke.com and it wasn't on the highlights from the basho either on the NSK webpage, but it was quite a match...

Edited May 18, 2005 by Yubiquitoyama

[TokyoBelle]

Hello - I'm new to the forum.

I was sitting in the takari-seki seats yesterday and the noise from Kotooshu's face sounded as if something popped - possibly a broken nose? Definitely a different level of force than any other bout yesterday!

[Zuikakuyama]

Welcome to the forum.

Please do make an introduction of yourself in the members forum.

I'll be intersting to see if Koto sports a black eye today to ruin poster-boy looks.

[wanchanyama]

Does anyone remember that "boxing match" between Musoyama and Chiyotaikai? I don't remember exactly what year that was, but it must have been before 2002, when I started saving every basho on videotape.

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Yeah, I thought of exactly the same bout. There are no movies from that bout on banzuke.com and it wasn't on the highlights from the basho either on the NSK webpage, but it was quite a match...

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I was looking for it recently, after a bit of a search, found that it was in 1998. Don't remember which basho though. There were some comments in the recent posts regarding Musayama's retirement.

[Kishinoyama]

Asashoryu's battle with Tochiazuma a while back was pretty brutal, with Tochi winning after having his nose bloodied.

asashoryu actually knocked out one of tochiazuma's front teeth in that bout

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And Tochi won the match!! (Laughing...)