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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    Yoshinofuji is the real deal! The bashou has been turned on its head! To quote Brian Moore, 'It's up for grabs now'.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    3 days left so i guess the top three will start facing each other today.

    Yoshinofuji was very unlucky on day 12.
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,737
    Really hoping for a 3-way play off.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169


    Mmm...
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,737
    Friend Or Defoe said:


    Mmm...
    The key factor is that neither of Aonishiki’s feet is in contact with the dojo. If he’d have somehow grounded a toe on the Tawada when first landing he’d have won it.
    Looks a tight call but the technically the correct decision.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    Wow! A three way tie going in to the last day!
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,737
    Gonna be a cracker.
    If Aonishiki beats Kotozakura, we have a play off, otherwise Hoshoryu will fight Onosato for all the marbles.
    Can’t wait.


  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    Onosato pulls out with a shoulder injury. 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    We have a second European champion and he's only 21!
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,737
    Shame about Onosato (think I heard dislocation but it was done when defeating Aonisiki on day 13 and he certainly looked well off when losing yesterday).
    Many congratulations Aonishiki.
    Nailed on next Yokozuna.


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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,085
    Just caught up, definitely can't take anything away from Aonishiki, he looks the part. Hope Onosato can recover soon 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    Shame about Onosato (think I heard dislocation but it was done when defeating Aonisiki on day 13 and he certainly looked well off when losing yesterday).
    Many congratulations Aonishiki.
    Nailed on next Yokozuna.

    Does he need to win the Hatsu Bashou to gain the rank, or does the two in a row rule not apply like it didn't to Hoshoryu?! 

    According to google the youngest Yokozuna was 21 years and 2 months!
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,737
    edited November 25
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    Shame about Onosato (think I heard dislocation but it was done when defeating Aonisiki on day 13 and he certainly looked well off when losing yesterday).
    Many congratulations Aonishiki.
    Nailed on next Yokozuna.

    Does he need to win the Hatsu Bashou to gain the rank, or does the two in a row rule not apply like it didn't to Hoshoryu?! 

    According to google the youngest Yokozuna was 21 years and 2 months!
    The rule is you have to win or post a “winning score” as runner up (jun yusho) twice in a row. 13 wins would suffice or (if the other occasion was a win) maybe even only 12, especially if then beaten in a play off. I think they’ll take note of who you’ve beaten as well.
    Futahaguro was promoted to Yokozuna on the back of two jun-yusho in 1986 and was the first Yokozuna to never win a tournament in the top division ever. After his promotion he never posted a score over 13, fighting in only 8 basho as Yokozuna before retiring.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,758
    Don't the two wins have to be while already ranked as Ozeki? I thought that was the rule. He's only just achieved that rank now, so I was expecting this win not to count for Yokozuna purposes?
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,085
    Has he been promoted to Ozeki? Will certainly deserve it
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    Hoshoryu's Yokozuna winning Bashou involved a playoff against 2 rank and filers! The previous Bashou he scored 13 and finished second so all above board.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    McBobbin said:
    Has he been promoted to Ozeki? Will certainly deserve it
    He's being promoted tomorrow.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,758
    McBobbin said:
    Has he been promoted to Ozeki? Will certainly deserve it
    I saw a news item on YouTube which said it's been confirmed but hasn't happened yet. Some quotes from his stable master about how pleased he was to have been persuaded to take a chance on this guy when he'd not intended having a non-Japanese member of the squad.
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,737
    Swindon_Addick said:
    Don't the two wins have to be while already ranked as Ozeki? I thought that was the rule. He's only just achieved that rank now, so I was expecting this win not to count for Yokozuna purposes?
    Yes, that’s right but if he were to win in Jan and beat both Yokozuna in the process (a tall order admittedly though he’s 4-0 vs Hoshoryu), I wouldn’t be surprised if they consider tweaking the rules.
    He’ll surely make it anyway at some point in 2026, barring injury.

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,169
    Officially now an Ozeki.

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