but a new dohyo must be watered with new sekitori blood
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)11:03:48
Back in the day, before man lost his honor, a demoted Ozeki would've retired on the spot for daring to bring shame to the rank.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)11:33:39
>>261447(OP) We can probably stay on /sp/ now. They need us to keep evil spirits out.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)11:53:03
>Onosato out >Dan out
Lmao.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)12:39:37
>>261456 Horse's best chance at a yusho as yokozuna, pity that Zak and Kirishima seem to be back on form and whatever spells Abi is casting seem to be working.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)12:54:17
Kirishima yusho.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)12:57:17
>>261462 >Make Ozeki with a yusho >Win the following yusho >Lose rank
Dan invented the formula. Kirishima is simply following it.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)13:07:04
>>261464 Don't worry, Aonishiki will reclaim his ozeki rank with 11-4
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)15:38:02
>This is the first time Ura has been in double digit Maegashira since Hakuho retired
God damn.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)16:00:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy0jPXGyRX0
Spiffy ranting about sumo AI slop.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)17:16:08
Dan oyakata is buying a car and parking it in his ozeki parking spot
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)17:17:59
If an ozeki is ranked at sekiwake and yushoes then he get promoted to yokozuna if he also yushoes the subsequent basho
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)17:20:04
>>261479 You're asking if a demoted Ozeki is still an Ozeki. They aren't.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)17:32:08
>>261480 lmao everyone get a load of this stupid noob who doesn't even know any of the rules of sumo
>>261482 >Hoshoryu fucks up somehow >Zak is gonna zak to an 8-7 >Kirishima proves why hes always gonna be an ozeki not a yokozuna >Atamin does well but only a 10-5 to kick off his ozeki run >Kotoshoho completely crumbles >WTK barely scrapes few wins with his injury >Takayasu is cursed >Ichiyamamoto wins all his coinflip matchups and a 1 or 2 losing ones ITS HIS TIME
>Dan comes back next sunday >zensho's the remaining bouts to save his rank
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)17:46:11
>>261487 Has anyone done anything similar to his as an ozeki?
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)17:48:56
>>261485 JWags thinks Kotoshoho has an Ozeki run in him. I've never heard anything more ridiculous in my life.
>Never had a KK in the joi >Before March his highest KK was M5w and it happened 4 basho before Hakuho won his 45th yusho it was that long ago >His 11-4 in March contained two fusen, the first from Onokatsu and the second from Dan's broken toe
I'm going to enjoy watching Kotoshoho suffer. What a shame we won't get to see a relatively fit Kotozakura bully him in the ring.
>gets injury where all the muscles from the shoulder rip away from the collar bone, an injury that DEMANDS surgery and a lengthy healing process to repair at all, let alone with issues >master, who had to retire due to a similar injury convinces him to keep fighting on it >hakkaku(who has zero impressive students in his own stable) says the yokozuna are a joke and that nobody is training hard enough >onosato tries anyway, does admirably for a man with a shoulder like a ripped canvas sack >hakkaku continues insisting that it's a fucking joke >in training Onosato can't even beat juniors and they relent and let him go to the hospital >it's really fucking bad >kisenosato at last admits, "we're considering surgery, this won't heal in just one or two basho" I do not feel it was Onosato who is a disgrace but either his master or hakkaku, perhaps both.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)20:47:44
>>261512 Hakkaku being a tremendous cake eating la-la homo man has been a known thing for a while now. His support of Fujinokawa's recklessness is probably the reason for his current "injury".
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)20:52:43
>>261513 I'm so fucking pissed his insistence might've been what destroyed Onosato. His career, from everything I've been able to find in sports medicine might genuinely be over and watching his meteoric rise was some of my favorite time watching sumo, I am so gutted. I knew hakakku was retarded but he'd never as far as I paid attention been the cause for someone's direct downfall like this. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)20:53:40
>>261512 Holy fuck they totally blundered the best japanese rikishi of this century didn't they.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)20:56:47
>>261449 I miss flashbulbs at sporting events so much. Made big moments feel even bigger.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)20:57:48
The most infuriating part of this is how Hakkaku's own stable is so fucking low tier. Like nigga, if Isegahama had said this shit he might've had a point because of his 7-8 sekitori, but holy shit by the numbers Hakkaku is such a shit stablemaster, his entire authority comes from his rank and not his actual ability.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)21:00:49
>>261517 to be fair nishonoseki was basically gifted a mountainous powerhouse, other than Onosato and Shirokuma(kinda') is anyone else noteworthy in there?
>>261520 What is the headcannon part? Not the OP but seems like everything mentioned there was written in the media.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)21:47:10
>>261521 Mainly the parts where he assumes direct cause and effect based on statements made to the media. I don't care for people posting their opinions on how or why things happened the way they did as if they are speaking absolute fact from a position of greater insight. It's been shown many people will take shit like this at face value, example Chris Sumo's older videos where he speaks as if he knew wrestler's inner thoughts. Further assuming the extent of the injury and it's progression. As well as Onosato's own feelings and decisions towards it and the extent to which he took outside opinion and direction. For better or worse it's been shown that many decisions in each stable are left up to the wrestler to handle themselves at all levels of sumo. I want to clarify I don't see Onosato, Kisenosato, or Hakkaku as a disgrace in this situation. Hakkaku shit talks, that's just what he does, this doesn't have direct consequences.
>>261522 >For better or worse it's been shown that many decisions in each stable are left up to the wrestler to handle themselves at all levels of sumo.
I don't see how you can say this when they are pressured every time by their elders in public spaces. I can't even imagine what it's like behind the curtains. Even if the decision is eventually up to the wrestler, they still live and are influenced by this system where everyone is expected to fight through,
>Hakkaku shit talks, that's just what he does, this doesn't have direct consequences.
You say this like he is just some bloke who is a fan of sumo, but in fact he is the top guy. His comments represent the whole JSA and the sport. His leadership is a direct cause of the career decline of the most promising rikishi. There could be a world where the sumo elders treat injuries like real problems with real solutions, instead of treating them like some fault of the psyche, where the rikishi is "just not working hard enough".
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)22:18:23
>>261526 Look, I understand you hate Hakkaku, and I agree that I would prefer for "sumo" as a whole to treat injuries differently. I'm not disagreeing that sumo elders have influence on those below them. But again, you act like his comments have a direct and provable outcome on a wrestler's decisions, which is insane.
It's entirely possible Onosato himself felt surgery wasn't necessary at an earlier point. We however don't know.
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Anonymous05/08/26(Fri)22:30:00
>>261528 No I don't hate Hakkaku, he is also a victim of the same system. His career also ended the same way. But I do wish he would try to make systematic improvements, instead of furthering the problem, especially in an era where sumo is making a resurgence.
>But again, you act like his comments have a direct and provable outcome on a wrestler's decisions, which is insane.