>I have understood the core of my appreciation for sumo. It is not the athletics, nor is it the tradition. No, it is the sheer beauty of seeing how it is possible to sculpt the human body and turn it into an elegant and graceful object in the dohyo. Loading the rikishi up with chanko and rice to increase their mass, and then carefully working the human form into such a thing. And to then see the retired elders shed all of those pounds like tears in rain and assume a "normal" figure once again as if it had all never happened. It is sublime, to witness such control over the physicality of the great ape. Only a fool would dismiss them as merely fat. Yes, this is the essence of what gives sumo its mysticism.
Holy shit even youtube's AI generated subtitles are in on the Horseryu meme
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Anonymous01/10/26(Sat)01:01:19
JSA is setting up the narrative where Horseshoe gets a career ending meniscus tear later this year if he can't yusho, if he can (he can't) then after he does he will take 6 or more months off to heal his knee
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Anonymous01/10/26(Sat)01:04:32
It is fairly surprising that Aminishki hasn't coached Dan into using henka against guys like Kinbozan, Onosato & Yoshinofuji who have strong fast aggressively forward moving attacks. If Dan henkas Yoshinofuji on day two then Yoshinofuji will think twice before going in at full force the next time they fight. Even if Dan loses he will eventually reap the reward of henkaing
Aminishiki is now the most famous and recognizable oyakata thanks to Dan
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)01:23:23
>>254346 Naruto will always be the most recognizable. He's 12 feet tall and European.
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)01:47:39
>>254348 Ajigawa is recruiting all the best talent, the days of Iseghama domination in recruiting are over. In 5 years there will be another situation in sanyaku/joi like back in the (Taka/Waka)nohana days with Dan fighting M7s because all the top guys are his stablemates
>>254348 >Naruto will always be the most recognizable. He's 12 feet tall and European. This.
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)02:54:57
>>254346 The new Chris mini-documentary on the Takanohana rebellion mentions Aminishiki's role loaning his kabu to one of the traitors. I wonder if they still hold that against him even though its almost two decades ago already
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)03:46:15
What if Chris-Chan was an elite sumo wrestler?
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)03:52:49
Isegahama will decline now that it is under the leadership of a fat fuck Mongoloid.
>>253319 henka's are dishonorable, shame on your family for a 1000 generations
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)05:38:54
If stables had to fight each other, how would the rankings of the Isegehama makuuchi change
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)06:26:55
Isn't it possible for there to be a double Yokozuna promotion? Like in one basho, one ozeki gets strong JY and and the other gets a strong Y and then in the next basho the results are reversed. Has there been a double Yokozuna promotion before?
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)11:15:53
Has the ydc said anything about the Aonishiki’s run?
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)14:32:09
>>254386 It's happened twice in the YDC era, the last time was 1970.
>>254386 >>254402 Actually, this is probably more helpful, isn't it?
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)16:14:58
>>254373 Teru will probably recruit all the children of mong immigrants and maybe he will be able to fill out his talent pool that way, but you're probably right, Kakuryu isn't doing anything in terms of recruiting other than getting KiriSHITma and even Hakuho wasn't doing all that much even if he did manage to lure in a few decent Japanese prospects. Musashimaru also never pulled in the top talent, it seems that being a yokozuna doesn't go far in terms of recruiting if they aren't also Japanese
>>254409 He lost on purpose. He threw the game so the Sumo Association can get faggot pro Ukraine press. It's all a scam. The fix is in.
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Anonymous01/30/26(Fri)17:14:00
>>254407 >Onosato: Why can't I beat Horse? Dan beats Horse every time and I beat Dan every time so I should beat Horse too since I can beat Dan. Maybe I need to continue my completely predicable one dimensional form of sumo and never learn any technique other than 'be bigger than other guy and walk forward' and eventually I'll beat Horse if I do that