Aonishiki starts today with 12 wins, with Kirishima and Atamifuji at 11. Kirishima got a rest yesterday because Hoshoryu pulled out. Let's see what shakes out today.
Aonishiki starts today with 12 wins, with Kirishima and Atamifuji at 11. Kirishima got a rest yesterday because Hoshoryu pulled out. Let's see what shakes out today.
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 19d
Fujinokawa is so dang fast. Glad he could pick up his KK, took position right away against Fujiseiun and didn't let up
Sergio@piefed.social · 5 pts · 19d
Some of these final-day matches you can tell, rikishi weren't going to risk injury if they already got their Kachi-koshi. This one WAS about a Kachi-koshi so they were both fighting hard.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 19d
Kirishima blocks Kotozakura from finding a grip, and when the big man advances Kiri steps around his fellow ozeki and takes a rear grip to drive him out.
3 way playoff in both juryo and makuuchi today!!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 19d
3-way playoff in juryo today. Shonannoumi takes it over Toshinofuji in a nice match
Kinbozan walks Mitakeumi out easily. Mita needs to figure out where he's going with sumo.
Fujiryoga shoves Asakoryu to the ropes but the smaller man dodges when he comes in to finish the job and helps him exit from behind with a hand on the mawashi.
Shishi takes an inside left belt against Roga and they both struggle to throw each other. Shishi has a decent attempt but Roga recovers and uses a strong outside right to spin Shishi to the bales. He hangs on using his toes for a moment but is forced down and out.
Shoving battle where Wakamotoharu backs Asahakuryu to the edge who dodges and comes around to have WMH in a precarious position. WMH dances along the edge but Asa's belt grip won't be denied and he gets the force out.
Strong tachiai from both Asanoyama and Takayasu and after some jockeying they end up with mirrored grips, Papa right inside. Asa's belt tie is loose and part of it comes untied and drapes down during a long stalemate. Papa finally readjusts to take the inner belt and spins Asa around and finish him off with tsuppari.
Takerufuji comes in hard against Kotoeiho and drives him back but then switches up to a pull down, giving Koto the chance he needs to drive Take all the way across and out.
And with that I'm off to a sumo watch event. I'll check back in later tonight.
Sergio@piefed.social · 4 pts · 19d
Woulda been nice if Shishi won this, but 10-5 is a great final score, I hope he studies his matches and learns for next tourney.
After a long struggle, Big Poppa's like: "Go tighten your mawashi!" So satisfying.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
I was so glad to see Shishi have such a great run. A lot of my favorite guys didn't do so hot, but after learning more about Shishi, I really like him and was happy to see him do as well as he did. I was shocked to see he is so young still and hearing he only actually started sumo a few years ago, I'm hoping he still has a good future ahead of him.
Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 6d
Yeah, I'm happy for Shishi as well. The thing is, because he was at the very bottom of the top Makuuchi tier, he was fighting a lot of other low-Makuuchi-ranked wrestlers. The big challenge is gonna be how he does once he hits mid-Makuuchi, and he fights a lot more mid- and top-ranked wrestlers. But I know he can do it!!!
btw he's 29 years old which I think is considered middle-aged in terms of a sumo wrestling career, especially in terms of performing at the top of their game.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
Ah, you are right, I got his age mixed up with Aonishiki!
I was going to ask the one day how the matchups work, if they are random or if people pick who fights who as the tournament goes along.
Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 6d
They're definitely not random, the matchups are determined by a committee after every day, because it can depend on who is absent because of injury. Also, they weren't going to let Shishi win the tourney ONLY by fighting lower-ranked people, at some point they matched him up against higher-ranked wrestlers, and that's when he started to lose. There's also a rule that wrestlers won't fight against other wrestlers of the same stable, unless it's for a championship. But besides that, wrestlers will tend to go up against other wrestlers who have a similar rank. Long-time watchers have a good sense of who will likely fight who, especially at the beginning of the tourney, but I haven't watched long enough to predict that.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
That makes sense, considering how structured everything is. I just don't have enough grasp on the rankings yet to have been sure.
I was also wondering if stablemates fought. It didn't look like they did, but depending who's steam I'm watching, it doesn't always say, and I haven't gotten around to really noticing who's in which stable yet.
I've been getting recommended some more historical sumo stuff in my YouTube recommendations now, and I'm really curious about the one video it keeps recommending about how modern sumo came to be in the 50s, I believe it was.
Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 6d
huh, haven't seen it. if it's any good, let us know by posting it on this community!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 19d
Main event!
Atamifuji blocks Aonishiki from finding any grip. Aoni tries for the overhand right pulling across the head that he's beat people with this basho, but misses his grip and Atami is already driving him out.
We'll see if Kiri wins, but Aoni's got his work cut out for him from here
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
I had been enjoying Atamifuji just because of his shear mass, but he seemed to have a really great basho overall and was a blast to watch.
With this tournament being my first time seeing Aonishiki, I really appreciated his skill, but I don't like when people are too good and have a straight run at winning, so seeing Atamifuji win was very exciting. I'm happy Aoninshiki won in the end of the day, because he really did seem to deserve it, and I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more of him in the future.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
I'm a bit late to the party since I forgot to come and add my 2 cents to the chat as I got caught up, but I really loved this basho overall. My previous favs like Ura and Hakunofuji lost more than I would have liked, but I got to learn to appreciate a bunch of new guys like Atamifuji, Fujiryoga, and Aonishiki. I felt there were many surprises and upsets on many of the days, and it got my wife fairly interested in watching along with me, which was a nice bonus.
Just want to thank @Sergio@piefed.social and @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip for all the great comments, explanations, and screen grabs. You both add a lot to my understanding and appreciation of things.
Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 6d
Great to have you join us! See you in 2 months, if you wanna see what happens next!!?!!
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
I've been having a ton of fun watching and learning! I will absolutely be here for next basho!
Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 19d
AAAAHHHH!!!!
Aonishiki for the win WITH HIS BAD FOOT. I hope it isn't injured more, he looked kinda in pain after the last match. Hey, isn't that an Ouchi Gari?