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I miss Kotomitsuki. If it was up to me, he would still be in sumo.

We have a similar scene on the beaches in Southern California. However, there are usually more willets (a type of shank) than there are whimbrels and godwits. The whimbrels are quite skittish and fly away if you get within around 40 feet. The willets are territorial and do not tolerate any whimbr...

I just looked it up and discovered that Futeno was almost entirely a belt man. He won 193 bouts in his career by yorikiri and 23 more by yoritaoshi. He only won 35 by oshidashi and 9 by hatkikomi. He made it to komusubi exactly once and scored 5-10. I lost track of him after he dropped out of Mak...

These 2 are funny. I usually agree with Celente but Alex Jones is another story. He means well and he's right about some things but he apparently lacks much scientific training, and his reasoning skills are subject to question. Lester R Brown calls for huge carbon taxes. His arguments can be foun...

Hakurozan (and his brother Roho) was forced to retire after a scandal involving marijuana use if my memory serves me correctly. I was saddened at the time that I learned about the decision of the Japan Sumo Association to expel the Russian brothers. Roho was a strong top division rikishi and Haku...

2 other yokozuna shown in the video are Terukuni (number 38) and Azumafuji (number 40), both having Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia has the entire list of the 69 former yokozuna.

Both rikishi went 9-6 that basho. Kotomitsuki was a komusubi and was promoted to sekiwake. Musoyama held his ozeki rank. The yusho went to Takanohana who won a playoff with Musashimaru after each went 13-2. Asashoryu went 8-7 as a komusubi. How things have changed!

well, Wakakoyu went 5-10 in the Hatsu basho. That score is actually about average for a shin-komusubi who has not yet established himself as a sanyaku regular. For a rikishi who avoids belt fighting, he did ok. Another rikishi with a similar style, Hokutoriki, always fared poorly when he was in ...

I remember Dejima well, even before he was an ozeki. He had an overwhelming oshi attack which could overpower all but the biggest and strongest rikishi. He did not use tsuppari or the nodo-wa much at all and in this respect his style was similar to that of Tochiazuma. He had a short reign as an o...

Chiyonofuji had an incredible physique in the early years of his run as yokozuna. He weighed around 260 lbs. at that time, and near the end of his career he weighed around 275 lbs. He was 1 of the lightest yokozuna in history but also 1 of the greatest.

Baruto's personality seems very stable, not too high, not too low, and not too much ego or pride. He's just happy. Because of this I believe that he will become a yokozuna. He already has hinkaku. Now he just needs to put it all together.

Watching this again I noticed that Sakumayama has a very skillful kotenage move. There are very few active rikishi who employ kotenage more than once in a blue moon. Kushimaumi used it a lot but he was not an extraordinary rikishi overall.

In Konishiki's prime, say from around 1986 to 1992, he was nearly immovable. His knee injury affected his forward movement a bit but he was the original "bulldozer". Even Akebono and Musashimaru had trouble with him until he became so obese that he would simply topple over if he got a little off...

Baruto starts the bout with a nodo-wa attack, something that has worked well for him several times this basho, but it does nothing against Hakuho who brushes aside Baruto's arms, secures a superior belt grip and maneuvers the bigger rikishi off the dohyo. So Hakuho ends at 12-3 securing a tie for...

the highly motivated Kotoshogiku uses his customary gappuri yotsu attack to defeat a game Harumafuji who fought well enough to defeat most other rikishi. So Kotoshogiku saves himself from becoming kadoban, securing his 8th win. Harumafuji falls to 11-4 and fails to win the jun-yusho (runner up).

a very disappointing basho ends for Toyonoshima with an unexpected loss to Kitataiki. Toyonoshima ends at 5-10 and will fall out of sanyaku, probably being ranked maegashira2 or 3 in March. Kitataiki ends at 2-13 and will fall to near the bottom of Makuuchi.

wow! Now that's what you call windmill tsuppari. Takayasu takes a page out of the playbook of ex-ozeki Chiyotaikai and overwhelms Miyabiyama with a windmill tsuppari attack, something that Miyabiyama has been using regularly himself for a long time, maybe 15 years. Takayasu ends at 6-9 while Miya...

Wakakoyu was again hoisted by his own petard, getting slapped down while aggressively trying his trademark nodo-wa, oshi attack and slapdown tactis. Goeido ends at 6-9, Wakakoyu at 5-10.

At the 34 second mark it appears that Takekaze's right leg and right arm are both down while Homasho has yet to touch down. The shimpan include ex rikishi Kushimaumi, Minatofuji and Akinoshima, who rarely says a word. The shimpan during the mono-ii apparently came to the same conclusion that I di...

Aminishiki has been at his crafty best this basho and demonstrated it in his win over Tochinowaka, using pushing, the nodo-wa, pulling and yotsu-zumo all in the same bout. Aminishiki ends at 9-6 and will be the new sekiwake in March, replacing Toyonoshima. Tochinowaka ended at 8-7 and should go u...

wow! Yoshikaze used some 1st class moves in a classical yotsu-zumo battle with Asasekiryu, who has always been a belt specialist. Both rikishi end at 9-6 and will go up a few ranks. I remember a few years ago when Yoshikaze avoided belt fighting like the plague, preferring to dance around using t...