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-fuji edition
>Banzuke:
http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Banzuke.aspx
https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/
>Fight Schedule & Results:
https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoMain/torikumi/1/1/
>Some sumo links and how to watch live:
https://rentry.org/uwbgc88d
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>>251299
Is Kusanofuji now
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>Koga, I'm sorry to hear that your whole leg had to be amputated after Biggufattofucko fell on it on the dohyo. To cheer you up I shaved my hair, its pretty much the same as losing a leg.
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I was saving this extremely kino picture of Onosato to make a new thread with
but we've been robbed of that by this >>251291 dipshit, look at that fucking ugly shit picture he used, goddamn what shit fucking choice
so I'll just post it here
fuck it
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>>251325
You have nothing to apologize for, the Danfag should be humbled at any opportunity
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>>251340
Yobidashi do an absolute fuck-ton of everything, not just maintain the dohyo. Every job you can think of that isn't done by the elders, wrestlers, referees, or hairdressers is done by the yobidashi, including tasks within stables during training days.
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Dan's ozeki debut has him listed alongside and in some cases above nearly all of the most legendary names from the history of sumo
https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoTopics/banzuke_topics/
2026 January Grand Sumo Tournament Banzuke Topics
Ozeki Debut Aonishiki
This is the first Ozeki debut since the promotion of Onosato in November 2024.
Aonishiki is the first newly promoted Ozeki from Ajigawa Stable since the current Shisho founded it.
He is the first Ukrainian-born Rikishi as well as the 14th foreign-born Rikishi to achieve this. The previous one was Hoshoryu, promoted in September 2023.
Taking only 14 tournaments since his professional debut means the fastest promotion. (Table 1)
Reaching the Ozeki rank in only 5 tournaments since his Makuuchi debut means tying the postwar record for the fastest promotion. (Table 2)
At 21 years and 8 months of age, Aonishiki is now the fourth youngest newly promoted Ozeki. (Table 3)
Staying without a losing record from his professional debut has not been accomplished since Haguroyama in January 1940. (Excluding Makushita Tsukedashi.)
Aonishiki is only the fourth Rikishi since the Showa era to make his Ozeki debut in the tournament immediately following his Sekiwake debut. The previous Rikishi were Futabayama, Haguroyama, and most recently Itsutsushima in the January tournament of 1941.
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>>251372
>Akebonio
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>>251367
Dan's achievements are so earth-shattering that it brought him back through time to 2016 where he stood amongst the other 4 ozeki and 3 yokozuna. He fixed the timeline by changing the torikumi, which made Terunofuji not kyujo himself for the first time.
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>>251396
I'm prepping a huge pot of chanko. It's going to be chicken, pork belly, fishballs, tofu, bok choy, shiitake. My wife, children and mother are crying. My father in law says I want to ruin Christmas. They're arguing about whether to call the cops or mental health services. Little do they know the chief of police is in the sumo club.
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>>251396
I will have the traditional Christmas dinner with the folks of spiral ham, vegetables, casseroles and rolls, but dinner is always super early. For late night I plan on eating my leftover hot pot from the weekend.
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>>251396
Souls
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>>251396
Entre:
Turkey breast burrito in a hand made flour tortilla with sauted onion, celery, carrots as filler with the turkey, seasoned with basil, oregano, garlic and black pepper, and topped with a nice turkey gravy.
Side 1: Steamed sweet potato topped with cinnamon and raisins
Side 2: Cabbage, onion, bell pepper, celery, carrot salad with oil and vinegar.
Have a merry Christmas /sumo/.
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Aonishiki steps into Ozeki role
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/special/04/4480/index.html
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Sumo: Nerveless Aonishiki primed for ozeki debut, chases yokozuna dream
December 23, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251222/p2g/00m/0sp/045000c
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A month after securing his first Emperor's Cup and promotion to ozeki, Ukrainian star Aonishiki wore a relaxed demeanor on Monday finding his name at the second highest rank for the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament.
The 21-year-old touched on the excitement in reaching the rank in what is the fastest ascension from the bottom of the sport's pyramid after only 14 meets, but was constant in his message that even ozeki is a stop on the way to yokozuna, the sport's pinnacle.
"I was happy to be announced as the new ozeki on the first day of the regional tour. There were more cheers, and the fans' voices were far louder than before," Aonishiki said. "(But) my desire is to have a go at the one rank above."
"I want to make the next year no worse than 2025, win the title again and will work hard to become yokozuna. I have confidence in my wrestling style that brought me this far, and there's no need to change it just because I've won promotion."
Having fled his country originally to Germany amid the war with Russia, Aonishiki, whose real name is Danylo Yavhusishyn, arrived in Japan in April 2022 before making his grand sumo debut in September 2023 at out-of-rank maezumo.
The youngster has since taken the ancient sport by storm, particularly with his ability to keep a low, forward-leaning stance throughout bouts, which he credits to his background in freestyle wrestling.
"You fight while keeping yourself low for six minutes in wrestling, so my abdominals and back muscles developed. I'm making the most of them now," Aonishiki said recently.
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After fighting mostly on mats rather than sand in Ukraine, even in sumo, Aonishiki said he also had to "get used to" the fierce, head-on crashes at the start of bouts, as well as facing opponents with big weight differences on a daily basis in professional sumo.
But that did not derail the Vinnytsia native's formidable rise as he broke Bulgarian-born Kotooshu's record for the fastest rise to ozeki by five meets. He also tied former yokozuna Azumafuji and current grand champion Onosato for the fewest meets needed to reach ozeki after the top-tier makuuchi division entrance, at five.
Inspired by his countryman and heavyweight pound-for-pound king Oleksandr Usyk for his "devotion" to boxing, Aonishiki also said former European ozeki of Kotooshu, Estonian Baruto and Georgian Tochinoshin, as well as legendary yokozuna Taiho who had a Ukrainian father, are all on his mind as he surges his way up.
"I certainly know about them. It's an important part of sumo history, and I've studied them since I was in Ukraine," he said.
Motivated to follow in the footsteps of Sergey Bubka and Andriy Shevchenko as one of Ukraine's leading sporting figures, Aonishiki said he is "ready to help in any way possible" if more talent from his country follows him into the sumo world.
His stablemaster Ajigawa, former sekiwake Aminishiki, acknowledged the burden that comes with battling in the second-highest rank as being a "role model on and off the dohyo," and Aonishiki was up for the challenge.
"I'm learning from him how to wrestle without stopping, (always) applying subtle technique and not giving opponents time to think," said Aonishiki, a courteous character who was still in the second-tier juryo this time last year.
"Having entered the world of sumo, there's no point if I don't aim for the very top. It's not a place everyone can reach, but I want to do everything I can to get there."
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JSA celebrated it's 100th birthday
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Behold, the last time we had a perfectly balanced banzuke.
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7 yusho won outright, with the possibility of an 8th if he beats Harumafuji in a playoff in January 2015, promoted to yokozuna May 2016, 2 yusho as a yokozuna. They wouldn't even bend the rules for him in 2013 because even without Hakuho his juns wouldn't have been strong enough.
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>>251536
its very jolly so far
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>>251557
BANZAI
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Dan is the cover story in the latest edition of Sumo Magazine
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Hosh
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https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2025/12/25/articles/20251225s00 005000128000c.html
Scandal at Kise stable, wallets have been violated. This could be a big one boys, possibly the biggest in years
>On November 7 at the Kise's Kyushu residence, Master Kise became enraged after finding out that wrestler B had stolen cash from wrestler A's wallet. Master Kise then grabbed wrestler B and punched him in the face with all his might at least five or six times followed by nowadas and finally using a beltless arm throw to put wrestler B on the floor. This assault falls under Article 4, Section 5 of the Sumo Association's Violence Prohibition Regulations
wrestler B is probably Takano
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>>251587
Finally some good slop
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>>251592
takano is useless sack of shit anyway, he's on par with moriurara, who eats the most at otakebeya, which is quite something when you have Oho and Mudohou in the stable... just a fat fuck with brain damage
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>>251587
But Takano was at Senshuraku on november 24, no bruising and looked quite jolly
Wrestler B is most likely Higohikari
Wrestler A could be Sengaku or even Shiden (as he is currently in makushita) both absent from senshuraku
anyhow waiting for chris shizo video and inevitable comparisons to Miyagino Nishonoseki Isegahama etc.
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>>251603
This + there are still guys who remember the days when it was completely normal to do this shit, e.g. Kasugano who beat Tochinoshin with a golf club over some nothingburger is currently one of the riji. The way they see it, a sumo wrestler's job is to take a beating, it's nothing to go nuts over.
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Takano was definitely involved he didn’t wrestle in Kyushu and hasn’t been featured in their recent slop videos which is unusual. I don’t think it’s sengaku as he has been in the most recent video which just released.
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>>251587
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
Your idiocy has impugned Kise Oyakata for nothing, you fucking moron, you should be sued for libel
>According to an investigation, on November 7th, at Kise beya's Kyushu tournament lodgings, rikishi A punched rikishi B in the face with all his might at least five or six times. After confirming that rikishi B had stolen cash from rikishi A's wallet, he became enraged. While rikishi B did not receive medical treatment, he suffered bruises around both eyes and was forced to withdraw from the Kyushu tournament. The Kyokai stated, "Although we acknowledge that rikishi B was also at fault for stealing cash, this is no reason to condone such heinous violence. Furthermore, rikishi B has confessed to having been subjected to violence by rikishi A in the past, and although rikishi A denies it, other rikishi have given eyewitness testimony, so we have no choice but to conclude that it was a habitual offense." Neither rikishi has ever been a sekitori. Rikishi A was deemed appropriate to be given a disciplinary punishment of a two-tournament suspension, but he has decided to take responsibility and retire. Kise Oyakata submitted a retirement notice to the Kyokai. At the board meeting that day, it was decided that the "voluntary retirement will be accepted." "While we have accepted his voluntary retirement, we have confirmed that if disciplinary action had been taken, it would have been equivalent to a two-tournament suspension." Kise Oyakata was demoted for violating his supervisory and reporting duties, as well as for having a history of disciplinary action.
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>>251612
Something in this feels wrong.
>Rikishi B steals from rikishi A
>Rikishi A hits rikishi B for doing this
>Rikishi B then claims rikishi A routinely hits him
Who the fuck steals from someone who routinely hits them???
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>>251619
>respected elder
>comfy life of good eating in a nice place surrounded by your family and rikishi
Yeah I think he would
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Alright gaylords here we go again. I came 13th last time so you're basically just shitters compared to me.
>Onosato
The Inevitable One. No reason to think he isn't still the #1 pick with K*senosato making sure his injury doesn't end his career.
>KiriSHITma
The best of a bad bunch as far as this pick goes. Like wow, damn, they're all fucked.
>The Rikishi Formerly Known As Kusano
I expect this joi to eat shit but again he's the best of a bad bunch.
>Gooneryama
Shown he's capable of much high levels than this.
>Pussy Slayer
Free real estate.
>Asahakuryu
No reason to think he won't do well down here, plus he gets to dodge Asanoyama.
>Sub: Abi
Fuck knows what's wrong with him but he can do much better than this.
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>>251687
I scored low but that's because I pick wrestlers I like rather than the best possible
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>>251691
I know, with the Sanyaku expanding to 8 guys it means that Churanoumi at M5w is not only outside the top 16 but also gets to dodge joi rikishi who can't fight each other (Waka bros, Isegahama bros), but he simply lacks the consistency to be a reliable pick.
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I remind myself that Kakuryu was a mediocre fuck as ozeki until he pulled two basho out of his ass to get promoted, so maybe Zak just needs to get his head out of his ass just long enough to take the next big step.
I also remind myself of Goeido, so maybe not.
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>>251723
They're destined to fight
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>>251687
Behold my supreme tactical choices of only kino rikishi
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>>251717
Will never happen but I'd honestly like to see what a lengthy 4 yokozuna period is like. Even though there have been multiple, there's never been a lengthy run where all 4 were healthy at the same time. It's always one or two of them hanging on while another one or two newcomers appear.
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No way you can compare Babutame to those ugly fools.
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Kazuma has only two losses in his professional career. One was the fight that injured him for almost a year. The second was a Makushita playoff loss to Tatsuosho. This kid is nuts and I can't wait to see him rip through sekitori like a hot knife through butter.
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>>251750
Zak is a good ozeki even though the last year has been tough. He has the toughest schedule ever basho and mostly has held his own even with injuries. He really should just skip a basho and go kadoban to recover
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Him & Onosato were the only ones in the top 16 capable of making KK for the past 5 bashos
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What went wrong?
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>>251756
he looks stupid
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>>251761
>Crush a yusho
>Swear on your grandfather's grave that you'll return to perform your dohyo-iri there as Yokozuna
>The evil spirits hear that he intends to perform his dohyo-iri outside a dohyo or shrine
That's basically it.
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>>251768
Guy like Dan & Onosato who can climb through the sanyaku section of Banzuke like they're Teru going through jonidan are an anomaly. Zak isn't at that level, he was in lower sanyaku a long time before getting ozeki and when he did it was a total surprise, nobody was expecting it. So he should be expected to linger at ozeki a while before moving higher if he is ever going to make it.
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>>251770
Dan has never lost on day 3
also never lost on day 8
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Dr. Takasu is an Ajigawa beya supporter. The man has impeccable taste.
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why is it that redditiers always hate getting called out for being from reddit? why are they so ashamed of themselves? its almost as if they not only know that they're universally despised, but also understand why they're universally despised
reddit.com/r/futagoyama/
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>>251761
Along with the curse (the very real cost of running your mouth), there's the unfortunate timing that his knees began to break down at the same time as the wrestlers around him began to become higher level. There are now significantly more guys around him that have a good shot of beating him if things continue as is and he never recovers and improves again.
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>>251832
>The descendant of Yokozuna Mienoumi v the inheritor of Yokozuna Asahifuji's shikona
You know that clip of the two women in the front row gooning as Asanoyama sits down? That's what every woman in the crowd would be doing.
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What do you call this hairline
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>>251867
So true
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https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2025/12/28/articles/20251228s00 005000027000c.html
Yoshinofuji is a Dan poster
He is saying things like "Dan is my hero"
"I want to be just like Dan"
"Next year I'll do my best to join Dan in sanyaku"
"Riding in the parade with Dan inspired me"
"My collection of Dan merch is twice as big as Ichiyamamoto's Wakatakakage collection"
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>>251875
It's the story that people admire. WTK is from Fukushima and found the inner strength to yusho after the earthquake and nuclear plant disaster. That plus coming back from bad injury is a great story. Likewise Dan has a great story of escaping war, moving to a strange land, and becoming an Ozeki.
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>take the grand sumo highlights from every day of a basho
>put it on a dvd
>sell a highlights dvd for every basho for like $20
>~6 hours of sumo at a reasonable price
>no, let's instead purge the entire internet of any signs that previous bashos ever happened
Do the JSA and NHK hate making money?
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>>251831
he's already makuuchi material basically
https://www.nikkansports.com/battle/sumo/news/202512270000643.html
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>>251823
liar
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>>251873
He will be the Hoshoryu's Dan to Dan.
The way he went tsuppari route for their fight in November was pretty kino desu
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>>251902
How do I a women?
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NSKino
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>>251920
Ajigawa had a couple guys with 5-2 scores in makushita
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>>251914
Who's the unhappiest looking Yokozuna, Akebono or Kisenosato?
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SHHHHHHHH
*BO*
*BO*
*BO*
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>>251933
It feels good
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>>251928
>Who's the unhappiest looking Yokozuna
It's Hosh
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The reigning champion of sumo
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It's been 5 years since we had a perfect banzuke
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>>251955
They don't like jumping rikishi from sub-joi to Sanyaku, especially when it's someone who's never been Sanyaku. They did it with Takanosho from M7e because the guy's a former Sekiwake and there wasn't really any other choice. WMH was only half a rank behind Ichi so was the much better choice.
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https://strawpoll.com/eJnvVGbB1nv
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvVGbB1nv
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvVGbB1nv
Okay fuckers time to see how good your sumo knowledge and intuition REALLY is.
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>>251968
y1e horse is the punchline, thats why its in the biggest letters
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that's crazy
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>>252021
b4
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Ladies love Ajigawa Beya
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Dan & Teru in ye olden days
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Found some broadcasts of Onosato's collegiate sumo bouts. Yeah, the vibe is completely different from pro sumo. The vibe is more similar to freestyle wrestling, but except instead of a singlet they are wearing a mawashi and the bouts are a fraction as long. I remember a Konshiki clip of him saying that without all the tradition, it's not really sumo and I can kinda see his point now.
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>>252038
Dan was in Japan in 2019 for the World Junior Sumo Championships, where he placed 3rd. As much as I hate dan spammer, the timeline is at least plausible. Can't find the source of the picture from reverse image searches though, so still sus.
http://ifs-sumo.org/19-result-jr-men-i2.html
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>>252049
Sumo barely has any rules compared those,
1. you win if the other guy falls down or gets pushed out.
2. Only open palm strikes allowed with your hands
3. No kicking above the knee
4. no hair pulling
5. Both wrestlers have to have their hands on the ground at the start (in amatuer you have a 2 minute time limit to get your hands down because Ukranians were abusing the tachiai rules)
Also, shorter matches mean you can burst all your strength in one go rather than making every match an endurance contest, its like asking why don't power lifters do track and field instead of lifting huge weights?
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>>252052
This argument is pointless for a simple reason. Without the sumo ritual, it's just yet another form of wrestling that pays less. Real sumo already has recruiting problems because anyone with that body type and skill set can make more money playing third-tier American football. Without the support given by virtue of it being a cultural institution, sumo would be even more irrelevant because it can't compete in terms of actually paying its athletes.
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>>252052
This is a slow thread on a slow board on a relatively niche relic of a website. In Japan, sumo is fairly unpopular, orders of magnitude more people are interested in watching or playing sports like baseball or basketball. As a combat sport, sumo's popularity pales in comparison to things like boxing or MMA, as well as other Japanese styles like judo and aikido. Internationally, the majority of people never think about sumo at all. At best, it's relegated to jokes about fat people and seen as laughable and unserious. Fundamental aspects of ozumo like the honbasho schedule, the heya system, and the concept of a yokozuna are all completely unknown by the vast majority of the sports-watching public. Sumo is an incredibly niche and unpopular sport, but we are all so deep into the rabbit hole that we've lost sight of the entrance.
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GRAND SUMO Review 2025
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2067053/
DO NOT watch this if you're an Dan hater, you will be badly triggered and might even die of apoplexy
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Why'd they put that six pointed star next to Dan? Is he jewish?
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>>252084
Aonishiki has nothing to do with it.
Just look at this and tell me what group has the same goals and opinions as the pictured (((anon)))
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>>252051
Sumo is the most spectator friendly grappling sport BECAUSE matches last a short amount of time and rules are easy to understand. I've tried to get my non-combat sport friends into stuff like BJJ and judo and they tune out of everything but the most exciting 10/10 matches. But I can put on a decent sumo match and they'll go "neat".
>>252053
>form of wrestling that pays less
Sumo arguably pays more. There's a reason why every good college wrestler who's not quite good enough to make it to the Olympics moves into MMA.
>>252055
>aikido
Aikido isn't a combat sport.
>>252065
No, slamming your feet down in shiko is needed in developing bone density and tendon integrity. People who only do swimming as their primary exercise have only marginally better bone density than fully sedentary people.
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Teru's kid will be Enho's size in just a few years, lmao
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>>252132
The sumo insiders and pros all have tremendous respect for Dan. We're lucky and should feel thankful that we get to witness his era of sumo
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what does this arrow mean?
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>>252124
Yes, but I'm not going to hold it against him when his diabetes was the only thing stopping him from making yokozuna shortly after Kisenosato did. He was legitimately up there with the rest even that early, not just a fluke ozeki. Though spending so much time injured probably humbled him a lot.
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>>252154
Part of me thinks he's getting his KK and throwing in a "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" way. No point exerting yourself to beat Onosato and secure your 9th win when it represents nothing but a risk to your knees. If he has a good start to a basho I can see him putting in a real score again because he'll have a reason to try.
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Kachikoshi doesn't imply someone is doing well. If Onosato got an 8-7 next basho no one would say he did well. An Ozeki is expected to get 10 wins per basho. Zak is doing poorly by every metric besides "is he still an Ozeki", but you can maintain Ozeki with a 26.6% win rate so like shut up.
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I'd have thought this was a pretty good metric.
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>>252171
>Five years at Ozeki
>Three yusho
>His only real bad results are kyujo
Fuck you Tochiazuma was a great Ozeki.
If you want a bad Ozeki we go straight to Miyabiyama, who did so poorly that they wouldn't repromote him to Ozeki despite his string of four basho with results that would've promoted anyone else.
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I want Zak to make it but frankly, my belief that he can do so is eroding.
First, the injuries. All well and good if they heal, but Zak is gambarizing like fuck and who knows if he's healed at all or just extended an injury over an entire year+.
Second, the rising level of competition. A higher level of competitors has arisen recently and even more are coming up.
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Zak isn't going to make it. We thought he'd have a berth at the top as a reasonably competent mammoth, but then Onosato turned up, who's just as big but much more aggressive and mobile. Zak isn't a technician or a scrapper or a trickster, he's a wall that more and more people have worn down as they climb over. I think he'll hold Ozeki for another year or so, and then start the real decline.
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>>252192
Dan is a once-in-a-lifetime level of talent, not the kind of guy who comes along several times a year. And when Dan was rising up the ranks every basho people were saying "this time he finally rose to a rank he won't be able to dominate at". A 200kg fatass with bad knees isn't launching himself up to the top of the banzuke.
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>>252196
Dan isn't even the first meteoric rise we've had this year. Onosato did the same and went a step further. Fujiryoga and Kazuma and even Asahifuji lower down might flare out like Takerufuji or Hakunofuji have done, or they might rocket up to the top. Everything you think you know about sumo, or about generational talents, or about the clown era is meaningless. You'll just have to wait and see.
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>>252200
Takerufuji didn't "turn into trash"; his steroids simply caught up with him and his body started imploding. Goshima and Kazuma won't have that particular issue because they're winning due to being born unnaturally huge just like Onosato. There really is no way of knowing until it happens. I'm excited!
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>>252201
It beggars belief that Ichi has won and continues to win at this level. He doesn't have a defined fighting style and his physique is the least impressive in Makuuchi, and yet here he is at M1e and a kachikoshi from Sanyaku. He's like that old saying about why America is so good at war, which to paraphrase is:
>War is chaos, and the US army practices chaos on a daily basis
Ichi's opponents don't know how to counter him because he doesn't go in with a plan in the first place.
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>>252206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqd4SAyqiYE
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Look at how solid this sanyaku is, top 5 all have championships under their belts. Clowns have no chance against this
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>>252223
I'm not a fan and make fun of his chicken legs every chance I get, but the guy was in the joi, and that's proof you belong in makuuchi if you can make it there.
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Reminder that Takakeisho gets to tap THIS
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>>252232
I was just talking about Makuuchi tier wrestlers, not joi rikishi, read the reply chain. Here's Roga who has never sniffed the joi, he's not a makuuchi tier wrestler in my book.
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>>252243
Roga is such a fucking lucker dog when it comes to banzukes. The guy has gone 7-8 five times and only been demoted once, and every time he gets a kachikoshi he gets overpromoted. From March-July last year he went 23-22 but moved +5 ranks overall by September.
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>>252231
mogged by Kotoshoho's wife
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image that takerufuji is the "senior" but yosh massively outranks him on the banzuke and takerufuji vents his rage and frustration at his own professional shortcomings by refusing to clean.
if takerufuji wants to improve himself he should make an effort to try and be more like yoshinofuji instead of being such a lazy slob
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>>252283
Anyone here old enough to remember when Atamifuji was guaranteed to be the next great yokozuna but then he got stopped cold in joi and now he is a perennial mid ranker and nobody gives a shit about him anymore?
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>>252287
I drummed that he would be the next ozeki. I was wrong
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>>aura
here, fixed that for you
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>>252287
Recency bias is a helluva drug.
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>>252334
Kazuma is the new kamikazi that will sweep foreigners from the JSA and back into the sea.
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Hosh is reportedly now addicted to sleeping pills, he developed a dependency because he had been losing sleep from consistent nightmares featuring Dan kicking his ass and his ancestors laughing at him.
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>>251291
I saw a Japanese YT comment that said (I'm paraphrasing) that Hakuho's Dohyo-Iri looks like how a overly enthusiastic sumo geek would do a Dohyo-Iri. After listening to some interviews of Hakuho talking about sumo, I think "overly enthusiastic sumo geek" sums up Hakuho entirely. I'm starting to see why the JSA hates him.
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>>252347
>t. guy on the internet
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>>252352
>They're made to eat sunlight
sunlight and CO2
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>>252355
This post is so fucking dumb. The word is FROM the Japanese you fucking idiot. 銀杏 read is gin kyou instead of ichyou.
And what the fuck do you mean they can't pronounce it? Do YOU pronounce the second g? How fucking stupid can you get? Do you get paid to be that dumb? If so, you should deposit your earnings at a bank. Or in Japanese, a ginkou.
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>weeaboo slapfight
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Fuck this lets do another shitty poll
https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXJXV9ye
https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXJXV9ye
https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXJXV9ye
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Horseshitryusisters??? Why is he winning???
>>252372
Pure sumo soul.
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