Baruto in Makuuchi

[yamaneko]

Baruto with a hatakikomi today. Not exactly overpowering sumo, but it got the job done, and this means hes only one off the leaders (im assuming chiyotaikai looses today)

[Guest FinSoft]

good and quick job, yes, not perfect powertrip , but still - nice and easy :)

[Shimpu]

Tomorrow Baruto against my man - small but explosive Yoshikaze. He defeated Baruto once and I hope he'll defeat him again. Gambarize ! (Bye, bye...)

[Doitsuyama]

You can find Baruto's day 7 bout and more here.

[yamaneko]

so much for yoshikaze saying that even if he lost he was going to make it hard for baruto.

THAT was some overpowering sumo today. I bet baruto wanted revenge for his previous lower division loss to him. Great stuff. Hes looking a lot better than kotooshu this basho.

[Shimpu]

He is very strong... Yoshikaze just flew away (A sekitori...)

Edited May 14, 2006 by Shimpu

[Guest Jubin]

He is very strong... Yoshikaze just flew away (A sekitori...)

What hapened there? It was to fast to me. I saw only Yoshikaze feets on air!!

[Jaffa]

What hapened there? It was to fast to me. I saw only Yoshikaze feets on air!!

Please have a look at the soles of Yoshikaze feet

[Doitsuyama]

You can see that also here, along with some more bouts.

[Kintamayama]

Yesterday, he took a ballet lesson from Chiyotaikai. Today, perfect tawara-ballet.

[yamaneko]

WOW. baruto really showing me things. I dont think any of the european/russian gaijins could have pulled that move. its going to be hard for people to prepare to go against baruto. He seems to not have a SET style yet, he does so much different sumo every day. I was really worried today becauase kasugao IMO, is a technical wizard when hes on his game, and i thought that kind of rikishi would give baruto some problems.

[Shimpu]

I was really worried today becauase kasugao IMO, is a technical wizard when hes on his game, and i thought that kind of rikishi would give baruto some problems.

Indeed. I was looking for some power-yotsu too. The most amazed was Kasugao himself. With this huge body Bart should be more offensive. I hope tommorow against Futeno he'll show some good sumo instead of this what we saw today.

[Doitsuyama]

Day 9 bout of Baruto and Homasho along with others are here.

[yamaneko]

any chance to get the shimoda bout on your site since they showed it on the NHK replays?

[Doitsuyama]

any chance to get the shimoda bout on your site since they showed it on the NHK replays?

Please! If you have watched my snips, you'd know they are NOT coming from NHK. It's the live web stream where I get my food, which doesn't have replays at all.

But maybe Dale or the French site will plug Shioda in.

[yamaneko]

whoops. i thought you were dale.

[Senpai]

After day 9 ...

DAY 1 M11w   Baruto (1-0)		yorikiri	   M11e   Homasho (0-1) WIN
DAY 2 M10w   Tochinohana (2-0)   oshidashi	  M11w   Baruto (1-1) LOSS
DAY 3 M11w   Baruto (2-1)		shitatenage	M13w   Hokutoriki (0-3) WIN
DAY 4 M15w   Kitazakura (3-1)	yoritaoshi	 M11w   Baruto (2-2) LOSS
DAY 5 M11w   Baruto (3-2)		oshidashi	  M14e   Katayama (2-3) WIN
DAY 6 M11w   Baruto (4-2)		yorikiri	   M8w	Hakurozan (4-2) WIN
DAY 7 M11w   Baruto (5-2)		hatakikomi	 M16w   Jumonji (4-3) WIN
DAY 8 M11w   Baruto (6-2)		oshitaoshi	 M14w   Yoshikaze (5-3) WIN
DAY 9 M11w   Baruto (7-2)		hikiotoshi	 M8e	Kasugao (2-7) WIN

Anyone think that sansho is possible if he wins some more? with who will he fight on those remaining days any sanyaku maybe?

Edited May 15, 2006 by Senpai

[Azumashida]

Anyone think that sansho is possible if he wins some more? with who will he fight on those remaining days any sanyaku maybe?

With 10 wins he should get a kanto-sho.

[Dale]

whoops. i thought you were dale.

But if he were, then who would I be? :)

The match you want is posted at-

http://www.banzuke.com/~movies/natsu2006/090506mov.html

I've also filled in everything going back to Day 4, including the

special features for each day. Kinda big files, but mostly worth

the downloads. You can see quite a few juryo matches in tonight's

file, for example.

Dale

Still recovering from a hardware failure on Day 1, but I'll get

there...

[Golynohana]

Thanks for this great stuff!

(Applauding...) (Applauding...) (Applauding...)

[Azumashida]

Wow, thanks for all these special features! (Applauding...)

[Dale]

Wow, thanks for all these special features!

Least I can do to make up for my lousy performance so far. The work

week looms, and I hope I'll be able to keep up. I'll try to finally post

Day 1 tomorrow and fill in Day 3. There was no special feature on

Day 1, but I'll try to post the dohyo-iris and the dramatic unveilings of the

yusho portraits :) There also wasn't one on Day 3, as they devoted the

time to Asashoryu's kyujo.

Some of the English announcers translate the special features, and some

don't (cough cough wiggins cough cough... :) Tonight Hiro and Mark just did

their own commentary, but I thought that worked out OK. Hiro is capable

of doing pretty good simultaneous translation. If he'd just drop all the tired

cliches from his regular play-by-play..... :)

Oyasumi,

Dale

[Asashosakari]

with who will he fight on those remaining days any sanyaku maybe?

A bout against Miyabiyama could well be possible. I also suspect Asasekiryu will be drawn into "stop the runaway lower Maegashira" duty. He should know the job, he was in the opposite position before, after all. (Applauding...)

[Jakusotsu]

I also suspect Asasekiryu will be drawn into "stop the runaway lower Maegashira" duty. He should know the job, he was in the opposite position before, after all. (Applauding...)

Next speed bump will be Tokitsuumi then. (Applauding...)

[Asashosakari]

I also suspect Asasekiryu will be drawn into "stop the runaway lower Maegashira" duty. He should know the job, he was in the opposite position before, after all. (Applauding...)

Next speed bump will be Tokitsuumi then. (Applauding...)

(Applauding...)

On second thought, Bart vs. Kotomitsuki wouldn't surprise me either, given that Mickey can't face Kotooshu and thus needs an additional opponent compared to the other guys in sanyaku. (And Kotoshogiku is obviously out, as well, and Mickey didn't face Shoryu and Tochi before they dropped, so they'd have to reach down quite far for his opponents anyway - why not Baruto, then.)