Blew out his knees and now messed up his back. He still trains but is doing personal training and stuff now, talked to him awhile back and he does want to return once he gets his injuries sorted out.
As far as Kashiwazaki idk, he just vanished. He came up around the same time as Seiichiro Ito...
Finally got caught up. Was really rooting for Terunofuji and that was a great abisetaoshi win on the final day. Can't be mad though, Takakeisho looked great this basho.
January will be interesting with Terunofuji fighting for re-promotion to Ozeki, Takakeisho possible Yokozuna bid, and the 2...
Interesting stuff. Obviously taking some of it with a grain of salt but absolutely agree with him on the JSA needing reform and how the elders don't handle a lot of things properly
All caught up, Terunofuji and Hoshoryu are looking great. Ryuden's tachiai is the funniest thing I seen in awhile and the commentator's disgust at it was maybe even funnier.
Shodai vs Takayasu was fun. Cringed at how Shodai landed off the dohyo and rolled his ankle but he seems alright
Enson has been his trainer so maybe he can help him fix his personality/attitude a bit. Genuinely interested in how he does, even if he wasn't the most talented or highest ranked rikishi to cross over, he might be the first sekitori level wrestler to do so young and without a history of major...
Obviously the guy he fought was a big tomato can (also allegedly a pos), but Takanofuji looked pretty comfortable everywhere. Once he landed that big right hand he seemed to settle in and that front headlock position is definitely something he should work more on, maybe the best position for a...
Btw Takanofuji won his MMA debut last night with a 1st round TKO. He actually looked pretty decent and was landing some big Hammer House style grounded knees
Shodai should be a shoo in for Ozeki even though he "only" got the 32 wins. He hasn't had a makekoshi since last September and had double digit wins in every basho since then except for March
Definitely should have been more special prizes given out, 6 Maegashira wrestlers with double digit...
As everyone said, Hoshoryu's kakenage was spectacular. Probably technique of the basho.
Naya won up in Juryo and Ura is up there tonight. Those 2 plus Chiyonokuni back in shape, and a few of the top division guys dropping down should make for a great Juryo tournament in November
Bummed to see Terunofuji's potential Ozeki run pretty much go up in smoke like this. After all he has been through it's probably best if he takes it cautiously if he's in pain though
I thought he was going to pull off a kimedashi when he got in that position, he's usually unstoppable there
Here's Shizuka Sugiyama, Momoko Yamazaki, and Kenji Osawa doing sumo with an amateur women's champion
Looking into her more, she did a video with Kai Asakura too (he has a sumo...
Wish Hoshoryu was having a better debut but I expected him to struggle a bit, he's a smaller rikishi himself and isn't quite there technically just yet. At least Juryo will be way more interesting next basho should he get demoted, would love to see him and Ura go at it.
Feels like a henka or shift of weight at the tachiai works against Takakeisho at least 80% of the time. He needs to keep his eyes up and quit charging head down and low
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