(Sumo) Asashoryu vs Kotonowaka 2004 Nagoya Basyo Day 8

[chikinzuki]

朝青龍は完全に残っている。琴ノ若は左手のつき手のあとに右のひ­ざが落ちたがそのときもまだ朝青龍は残っていた。取り直しではな­く朝青龍の勝ちにしてもいいくらいだ。

[risebloom]

asashoryu amazing

[camylarde]

Monoii should have declared Asa the winner. And a new technique should be invented - winning through sheer brilliance. He took the rightful win in a rematch in a spectacular way.

[HEARTPLAYER1]

Love it.. Japanese sumos are all fat people... But Mongolian have tricks and power.. That's wasup

[plt1985]

why he lost the first one and he got a chance of a sencond one??

[EmperorChiCheung]

Asashoryu's the magician of sumo. Most amazing sumo wrestler ever.

Asashoryu ftw!!!

[dunbunter]

@EmperorChiCheung No way. Hakuho is even better.

[Upstreamswimmer]

Asa is the reason I became interested in Sumo. His technique is amazing. He finds the way to win. JSA sucks for not allowing this incredible wrestler to continue. Big loss for Sumo.

[otacooon]

yes they can use low kicks

[anotherelvis]

In the second match Asashoryu used his upper leg to help making Kotonowaka fall. Is it legal to use legs in sumo?

[angleugii]

We love you Asashouryuu ...from Mongolia

[CelticLady44]

That is spectacular! I know very little of Sumo, but this is something to watch. It's over in just seconds!

[KataVideo]

Asashoryu rules!

the jsa sucks!!!

[DavidAndor]

Asashoryu is just awsome, great respect!

[WrestlingKingTV]

好, I like dat!

[PopeRoderic]

Admirable. I'm Asashoryu's total fan. He's really the greatest, and it seems to be what bothers a lot of people.

[negtom277]

増位山最低だな。

どうみても琴乃若の勝ちでしょうが。

[Majesticon]

i love the sound of the first smack.. mmm...

[F430corvettekiller]

the big 1 actually lost

[AzianStyo]

rofl 137 indeed

[plovdiv76]

It's too difficult to decide about a Shi-Tai rule. Because it's impossible to know if the wrestler is really "dead" or he is trying to invent a difensive creation. This is one of these cases.

[shock70]

wrong.

[azsony]

Монголчууд бид чамтай хамт байгаа шүү

[IntoSeasWithoutShore]

Look at the guy in the green shirt at 1:37 =)

[kenedaninja]

BRILLIANT!

I 'm kind of obsessed with Asashoryu Akinori, he's gorgeous.

[elgennutag69]

Aaya yaya yaya , дагваа мүндаг юмаа

[chokkolatt]

Sadogatake Oyakata was very heavy

[triplesharp]

great video!

[bayarg]

yeah! mudaaf*cker! no offence! but thats ma boi! asashouryuu!

[mikedubya]

Asashoryu FTW

[Laivasse]

Kotonowaka was pretty lucky to get the doutai decision for the first call tbh. Kabaite is usually called in situations like oshitaoshi where it is obvious one man is going down ('shinitai') and that the upper man is going down on top of him, and so puts his hands out to cover him (kabaite). This wasn't at all obvious here and Asa wasn't 'shinitai' since he managed to keep up.

Great bout though, and good to see kotonowaka when he was still throwing people around.

[joepod]

A terrible call...it was obvious that Kotonowaka was putting his ahnd down to protect Asashoryu, and thus the win should have been his via the kabaite rule. Nonetheless, kudos to Asashoryu for fighitng to the bitter end.

[bjjkenpo]

to protect him from what falling on his back? there was nothing dangerous about that fall. Kotonowaka just screwed up. They were still in the ring. It wasn't like they were going off the side.

[joepod]

To protect Asashoryu from 350 pounds of Kotonowaka falling on his face. There is a rule that allows the dominant rikishi to put his hand down first to protect his opponent from potential injury when the bout is decided, as it was in this case.

[bjjkenpo]

HAHAHA nicely put!Cool match though. I'm going to a tournament on the 4th, I hope it has some intresting matches such as this one!

[ligushka2002]

I think the exception rule "Shinitai" is not so comon today. The judges tend to rely on the videos, and they do not care whether the wrestlers are "Shikitai" or "Ikitai". There are lot of discussions about this.

[bomberbom]

unbelievable!!!

[sleeplessintokyo]

that was sweet.. thanks for uploading it.