Takanohana

If Takanosho gets injured and has to skip a basho, he would be a no show.

>>250250
How is he so airborne when he's so FAT.

That one time in 2016 Goeido went 15-0.

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kino

>>250262
That tournament alone was worth 80% of Goeido's mochikyukin increase as ozeki.

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>>250233
>I miss chaos lord Ozeki Shodai

>>250266
Based, Wakya posts during jungyo are great.
Love seeing the dudes get the chance to lighten up together.

>>250266
Dan is reportedly doing this meme on the current tour. Is it some sort of rookie ozeki hazing ritual?

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Damn that's Hakuho levels of dominance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjSor_rdLH0
AONISHIKI KEEPS ON WINNING HATERS KEEP ON SEETHING

>>250274
we can now add future emperor of japan to his official list of titles

>>250274
Oh come on

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>DAN

>>250287
Who is this ugly tranimal and why are you posting them.

>>250290
Its just what you perverted fanboy creeps seem like to the rest of us

>>250274
THE WHITE MAN MARCHES ON

>>250290
That's what all you Aonishiki dicksuckers look like to normal sumo fans.

>>250293
What is it exactly about Dan that irritates you so badly?

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This is what Dan fans look like in IRL life

>>250297
You only like him because he is a slavic pig. He is mediocre and not even close to Onosato yet he isn't getting the praise he deserves.

>>250299
Being reasonable, Dan has had 7 basho in a row with 10+ wins all the way to an ozeki promotion, he's hardly mediocre
Call it what it actually is: that the fanboyism was forced and retarded and it's annoying

>>250269
Hakuho never got 69.

>>250302
When you insult Aonishiki enthusiasts, you are insulting the Japanese royal family.

>>250305
I would take a fat shit on the Chrysanthemum Throne itself if it meant we could have /sumo/ threads without constant Danposting again.

>>250310
I'd take a second fat shit on this guy's fat shit if it meant that too

You're a loony.

>>250314
>shut it down

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>>250291
>>250293
Jokes on you I’m actually the koga poster not the dan fag.

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>What mental illness looks like

>>250316
No you arent, Im the koga poster

Could the Empress start attending the sumo again if she's taken a liking to Dan?

>Chris says Tokyo has been in line for a large earthquake for some time
Please god let it happen when Onosato is doing his dohyo-iri stomps that would be so fucking funny.

>>250325
>predicting an earthquake in Japan

My magical prophecy senses tell me there will be one in California too

I only started following Sumo this year. Was there and what was the hype behind Zak before 2025? I know he's Ozeki and his double tits are really nice but he's been unspectacular this year and his fighting style is pretty boring. I know he's been injured but I don't get the appeal, even looking at his 2024 matches, besides the really nice double tits.

>>250324
No. The Japanese Royal Family would forbid the crown princess attending. It is unbecoming of Japanese royalty to be thirsting over a foreigner.

>>250334
this time last year everyone thought he was going to be the next yokozuna

>>250334
There was a decent amount of hype surrounding and after his ozeki promotion. From July 2023 to his yusho at the end of 2024 he only went below 10 wins twice and was sanyaku the entire time. Most people considered him more likely to make yokozuna than Hoshoryu immediately after his yusho, though that was partially people undervaluing Hoshoryu.

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>>250334

>>250301
Chad Onosato > Virgin Slav

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>>250323
>>250316
It's a Koga general.

>>250334
>>250337
What this guy said, combined with changing his ring name from Kotonowaka to his Yokozuna grandfather's Kotozakura.

>>250340
Why is he so fucking ugly.
Like he's written for an NTR doujin.

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Grim

>>250343
What is?

>>250347
American sumo.

>>250348
27 Yusho ain't half bad.

The Japanese media made a major big deal out of Dan being called out by the empress. Every outlet had an article on it, even the ones that normally ignore sports news

>>250350
Is she hot ?

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>>250351
No.

>>250352
matronly af

>>250334
>Was there and what was the hype behind Zak before 2025?
Going 14-1Y at ozeki is pretty hype.

>>250352
>REEEEEE WHY DONT OLD LADIES LOOK LIKE PORNSTARS

>>250297
>regular people
Wow Dan is an exciting young wrestler who's poised to be successful.

>danschizos
*cuck fantasies about Dan starting hyperborea with a harem of nubile japanese women*

>>250357
Retard

>>250274
>HATERS KEEP ON SEETHING
and the anti-Danners responded with like a dozen seetheposts
lol

>>250361
Honestly impressive head drive

>>250361
Damn she's strong, pushed him back like 3 feet.

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Hirooki Goto as E. Honda in the new Street Fighter movie
what do we think

>>250343
Did Wakanohana go with the shiranui style purely to contrast with Takanohana?

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>Go to Wakanohana's wiki
>ctrl+f 'shiranui'
>hmm...

>>250374
I don't want a new Street Fighter movie and the games have sucked since 4.

>>250377
Better put some respect on his name

>>250376
I think it's sort of the other way around. He probably learned from Takanosato, who was the same ichimon, and used shiranui. Takanohana probably went unryu because shiranui had bad mojo.

Dan should invent his own dohyo-iri where his left hand is forwards during the shuffle to signify his grip on his opponent's belt during uchimuso, and the shuffles must be performed while bent over at a right angle.

>>250381
You're more obsessed than the sarah gadon poster
Aonishiki is going to end up raped and murdered by this anon before he makes yokozuna lol

>>250374
>Goto in a fat suit
Absolutely horrifying. I'm sure he will put in a decent performance, his character has been "sage but passionate traditional Japanese man" for well over a decade but he feels like he was cast for his face alone and not his body (probably his ability to do his own stunts too), since he is 6'0" and ~100kg.

>>250338
Fuck bros look that those things. They're art.

>>250337
>>250341
So it's just stuff unrelated to his sumo style? That kinda sucks. Again, my eye isn't really trained but Zak's style never really seemed that interesting to me. Hosh has his throws, Aonishiki has his unique low stance, Onosato is a bulldozer. I even like Takayasu more because dude spams Hundred Hand Slaps for a lot of his fights.

>>250348
All the American's that could do sumo all play American Football instead. Makes me wonder how the the US and the countries who play Rugby would fare in sumo if their respective sports just didn't exist.

>>250352
Would.

>>250385
>All the American's that could do sumo all play American Football instead. Makes me wonder how the the US and the countries who play Rugby would fare in sumo if their respective sports just didn't exist.
None of those fat ass Hawaiians could play in college or the NFL. They don't have the stamina.

Dan will have his worst ever performance in the next basho.

>>250388
There's a huge number of islanders in the NFL. The fuck are you talking about?

>>250388
>Akebono
Was never an athlete in the first place, just happened to have godly genetics for sumo.
>Musashimaru
Could've gone into football.
>Konishiki
LOL

It's 50/50 desu.

>>250391
>Was never an athlete in the first place
He had a college basketball scholarship.

>>250393
Wow, just like every sufficiently tall dude. 1/6 guys over 7ft tall in the US are professional basketball players because they get shoehorned into it owing to how big a deal being tall is.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6aR1hHnzcg
Now this is slop that even Takakeisho can get behind of

>>250398
This is bad for sumo's image. People will think they are just fat guys.

>>250399
Your mum is bad for sumo's image

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https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20251211-ukrainian-sumo-wrestler-aonishiki-21-conquers-fans-in-japan
HATERS ON SUICIDE WATCH

>france24
lmao this is just pathetic

Danschizos aren't beating the tranny allegations

>>250399
they already do ...and the eternal low rankers actually are...or just look at dewanojo..or the 'date' twins, datenomori/datenoumi

>>250403
It's your job to clean dewanojo's ass after he takes a massive chanko shit.

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I thought musashimaru wanted to show the serious side of sumo

>>250411
The slop thickens

>>250411
This is the serious side of sumo.

>>250384
He has always been on the defensive style, stand and receive, neutralize, and then overpower them out.
When it works they look like an immovable rock, but it gives the opponent too much opportunity to do their own thing. He hasn't been able to resist with his current injuries so he ends up looking pathetic. The few times he actually moves forward he still looks ok.

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lol

>>250424
Look at this mong and his lack of hinkaku. Crying about losing so he pulls Dan off with him to try to hurt him. Just like he was pouting takayasu and tried to hurt him as well. Hopefully the jsa is keeping an eye on his disgraceful behavior.

I mean, at least you are posting about sumo.

>>250343
>Only 4 Japanese Yokozuna in the past 32 years
Dayum.

>>250384
>Zak's style never really seemed that interesting
It's not, but it gets the job done most times.

>>250411
I'm glad he isn't.

Both Dan and Shishi fight at right angles. Is it just a Ukrainian thing?

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lol

>>250456
LMAO

Just read a depressing article in Reuters about Ukranian's historic population decline. Dan has to go back and seed as many wombs as possible.

>>250408
Mate of mine got into sumo at the tail end of the year after years of assuming they were all just fat cunts. He comes from more of an MMA angle and when I actually got him watching a day of a basho it blew his mind, but his conclusion as an outsider looking in was pretty straightforward.
>fat cunts with no other talent can't really do shit in sumo because everyone above about sandanme is too skilled
>skinny cunts hit their ceiling eventually and have to bulk up to some extent (he was really impressed by some old Takanoyama clips and some newer Enho clips but felt that their ceiling was low Maegashira, was pretty shocked to find out Enho made M4E)
>the absolute pinnacle of sumo are the guys that can move like they are 30-50kg lighter than they are, which the cunts that are just fat will never manage
I don't think his insight is special, but it is a good reminder that anybody who actually watches sumo can quickly see how athletic it is and you can't get away with just being a fat cunt if you want to rise above the ranks of the stable ball washers. Dudes like Konishiki are outliers but still count, being 250kg+ but moving like the 190kg cunts in lower divisions. fwiw he was really impressed by Akebono clips, seeing a 230kg guy move like the current 180kg guys, I've yet to find someone who gets into modern sumo who doesn't get their mind blown watching prime Akebono.

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>>250340
>>250323
>>250316
I am the Koga poster usurper, I am relieving you all of your Koga posting duties.
>>250342
Have you never seen Moriurara? Koga is down right charming compared to him.

>>250464
>I've yet to find someone who gets into modern sumo who doesn't get their mind blown watching prime Akebono.
Yeah when I first got into sumo I ended up watching a Akebono vs Takanohana vid showing a bunch of their fights. The thruster version of Akebono (so before he became mega fat) was nuts. The thing I really noticed wasn't the range, speed or power of his hand thrusts; it was his accuracy. His thrusts always seemed to land right on Takanohana's neck.

Anyone's penis or balls ever pop out?

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Otake opened a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtFUcNCROVA
Finally we get a closer look at the soul of sumo and Taiho's last disciple.

bonus oyakata channel video on Otake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD323PVh1W8

Hakuho getting kicked out of sumo at record speed still makes me laugh to this day. What a stupid barbarian.

>>250474
Reminder that Moriurara could batter anyone in this thread.

>>250478
Not a fucking chance.

>>250476
He didn't get kicked out, he left.

>>250482
You especially.

>second week in a row where the entire first half of the futagoslop keiko video is spent on kikuchi, ume, and k*ga bouts
Terrible. It's still better than the chanko only videos though, which are just depressingly shabby and silent now. I think Miyabiyama is eating most of the sashiire they receive.

what's the difference between sokubiotoshi and hatakikomi

latest chris kino goes full schizo against Hakkaku and ticket distribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h0wLGtAWjQ

>>250489
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/techniques/55/
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/techniques/16/

>>250491
Does hatakikomi have to be with both hands? Or is it just about head/neck vs shoulder/back?

>>250490
Still blaming the Londonistan exhibition as well I see

The JSA seems kind of schizo. Why did they go to London and why are they going to Paris next year? It’s impossible to watch sumo legally outside Japan other than the shitty jsa jewtube videos and they are making it harder for foreigners to get tickets to the events.

>>250494
>It’s impossible to watch sumo legally outside Japan other than the shitty jsa jewtube videos
NHK World is available for free pretty much anywhere. They also post the highlights an hour after they happen instead of the next day like they used to.

>they are making it harder for foreigners to get tickets to the events
The JSA isn't purposely keeping gaijins from buying tickets. They just sell out quickly.

>>250496
They changed the way you buy tickets now it’s harder to get them from outside of Japan because you need some goofy nip id number. They said this was to combat scalping but seems like it’s just to exclude wide eyes.

>>250389
10-5 will still move him up to o1e

>>250424
I like this pic, Dan's topknot adds a sense of motion and Horse is clearly thinking "sure is a long way down from here" and the crowd is an ocean of jap onions gape faces and there is a little avalanche of sand preceding Horse's big fall also Aminiskihi hiding behind Dan's foot

>>250483
he wore out his welcome then burned his bridges on the way out. good riddance

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AI estimate of what Dan will look like 8 bashoes hence.

>>250476
qrd?

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Dan farting one Horseryu's face is a popular new feature of the current jungyo

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The forgotten honkey

>>250514
Now that's some real sumo

>>250514
that clip followed immediately by a clip of him twerking

>>250513
I thought it was a meme when folks said that Shishi might be an oaf but then I saw him fight. Like, who the fuck does the shit he does with his hands right before the tachiai? Certainly no one normal.

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>Takanohana has been involved in Japanese culture and Shinto rituals through sumo wrestling as a yokozuna and master. He will tell about what he experienced, what he learned from reading the book, and the “attraction of Nippon” that remained in his heart, with the story of history.

>In Japanese Shinto rituals, water and salt are valued.

>When I heard this story, it was a country called Israel that came to mind.

>In fact, the Jewish religion of Israel also has cleansing water and salt. What is even more surprising is that Japan and Israel are the only countries in the world that have inherited these customs to the present day.

>There are various forms of prayer, but as this time, when you look at the commonalities between Japan and Israel, you feel the depth of prayer again.

https://pinzuba.news/articles/-/11428?page=1

>>250517
You're the oaf

>>250518
The Japanese are the lost tribe of Israel.

squatz & oafs

>>250520
So... Ikazuchido is basically Black Jesus?

>>250523
afraid so

>>250512
Is he dropping to juryo?

>>250525
Not for January.

Poor Shishi the Oaf can never return home now that his oblast is RUSSIAN.

>>250527
Shishi is ethnically Russian, except when he twerks, then he is a negress

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>>250518
Please use the real picture next time and not that photoshopped version

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ozeki

>>250531
Thick

>>250527
Wow he's basically just Roga at this point.

>>250531
He's getting fatter!

If Dan can win the next two basho or get a 13-2JY in one while winning the other he can make Yokozuna at the same age that Hakuho made it. Onosato might not compete so Dan may just stroll into one yusho.

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Mita using Koga as a teppou pole in the background of the latest Futaslop because there's really no other use for Koga.

>>250537
Are you forgetting about the second yokozuna currently active? Hello?! Hoshoryu is still there to serve as a roadblock for him.

>>250539
Thats just common practice method that you see during keiko

>>250539
Koga regularly trains with sekitori, do you?

>>250544
Almost all of his practice bouts are against 16 year olds he has four years of experience on, and he still loses to them half the time. If that anon was in the heya for as long as koga it's very likely he'd be better.

>>250545
>if
I accept your concession.

>>250548
I'm not the guy that posted about the teppou, but you already conceded when you were unable to provide another use for koga and deflected with cope.

>>250549
Selection of uses for Koga:

>experienced training partner for juniors and seniors alike
>cooking well-known signature dishes
>3/6 kachikoshi this year, equal to the heyagashira
>major driver of channel views and online discussion
>eyebrow fanservice

If you don't train regularly/play some sport chances are that Koga would mog you and blast you right off from the tachi ai.

>>250558
Even athletes from non-combat sports generally struggle to move teenage Jonidan shitters. We're used to sumo so men like Koga seem small and weak, but they really aren't by normal standards. Koga is the sort of guy you'd call when you wanted someone to move a refrigerator for you.

>>250563
Hell no jonidan shitters are bottom of the barrel misfits. Half the older guys are so destroyed physically they don’t even practice and just roll out to the basho to stay on the banzuke so they can stay institutionalized and they can still win enough to stay afloat.

Nobehara is the man

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An Official Message from Koga to us

Some of those kids they pretend to fight while on tour are huge. Has a rikishi ever ended up getting injured by them?

>>250549
He's Futagoyama-oyakata's personal tsukebito.

>>250573
I will support Koga to the end.

>Terunofuji's last 6 basho he was on the banzuke
1 kachikoshi
>Koga's last 6 basho
3 kachikoshi

Need I say more?

>>250585
Is this a childhood picture of Asanoyama?

>>250586
Looks like him being introduced as a pro.

Speaking of Asanoyama, how high do we think he can go on his re-return to Makuuchi? Will he be Teru 2.0 or just a Maegashira grinder?

>>250589
Almost certainly the latter.

>>250590
He's definitely a yusho contender for January though because he's going to be fed nobodies for 10 days straight. Asakoryu is lucky he gets to dodge him.

>>250591
I predict 9 wins.

>>250592
Tobizaru is going to commit his second Day of the Knee.
>I ended Terunofuji's career, and I can end yours too.

qrd on Tobizaru?

>>250594
He's a monkey. He flies. Simple as.

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>>250573
The peoples Yokozuna.

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>>250594

>>250607
>loses against Tobizaru day 4
>forfeits day 5
wh-what happened here?

>>250589
>just a Maegashira grinder?

This.

>>250608
monke...strong

>>250608
Intai

>>250589
Terunofuji had the prospect of allowing his mom, 8 siblings and 20 cousins to leave to rural mongolia shithole with the yokozuna kensho stacks. Asanoyama will do just fine with makuuchi salary to afford his soapland visits.

>>250608
it was the day of the knee
inevitable really

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Trannytame is looking a little skinny in the latest futaGOYama vid. He needs to start bulking up if he plans on competing in January.

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Dan got a new Sunflower themed kesho mawasher. This one features gopniks in Adidas track suit squatting in front of a commieblock while getting drunk and eating sunflower seeds.

You can see it in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OoglRuT0jY

>>250607
>>250608
For anyone who doesn't know, when Teru lost on day one he formally asked his stablemaster if he could retire for the 7th time, and this time was told that he could but only when he lost again. He had his entire family in the crowd day two because he genuinely thought he was going to lose and retire that day. It's also the reason why Takerufuji was randomly part of Teru's dohyo-iri that day. The big man won as long as he could but the second loss was only a matter of time. Fucked up that it went to Tobi though lmao.

>>250630
Still can't believe Dan got a kesho mawashi with the words SLAVA UKRAINI on the front.

Does Shunta know that his shikona in English sounds like "shunter", aka a person who shunts/shoves/pushes? He's literally a butsukarijin.

>>250490
At this point you can't really say he goes full schizo, he's been in the full-schizo state continuously for years.

>>250505
This is just a picture of Baruto

Some kid mocked Hoshoryu by doing uncle's signature slaps during this winter jungyo
https://youtu.be/MKM0hLnu1W4?si=VKgt97HMKNKggZ8w&t=503

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new reaction image fresh off the press

>>250642
Is journalism your day job or something?

I can't think of any other reason you'd keep going with these absolute bald-faced lies and blatantly manipulative phrasing

>>250653
I'm not even the anti-mong anon. I like Hoshoryu and thought it was a pretty funny moment.

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>>250656
>I like Hoshoryu

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Gunning published an article about Dan a couple days ago

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/12/10/sumo/aonishiki-expert-technique/

Seven centimeters and 36 kilograms.
That’s the average height and weight disadvantage that Aonishiki had to overcome when facing sumo’s six other highest-ranked men during his championship run in the November tournament.

The newly minted ōzeki went 6-1 in those contests (beating Hoshoryu twice) with the sole loss coming against Onosato.

While Aonishiki has yet to figure out a way to beat the massive yokozuna, he holds a stunning 14-3 head-to-head lead over the remaining five, including a perfect 4-0 record against the sport’s other yokozuna, Hoshoryu.

But how does a wrestler so undersized (relatively speaking) and inexperienced — Aonishiki only made his top division debut in March — come to dominate the best in the world so quickly? The answer is simple: technique.

Aonishiki’s grappling skills aren’t just elite, they may be among the best the sport has seen in decades.

And while his low stance and wrestling background has regularly drawn attention, just how adept the young Ukrainian is at fundamental elements of sumo often goes unnoticed or unappreciated.

Part of the reason for that oversight may be a pre-bout set position that appears closer to the stances of beginners in Western amateur sumo than what is common among professionals in Japan.

Aonishiki’s hips are unusually high right before the tachi-ai. In most of his bouts he starts with his mawashi higher than his head – as opposed to the more standard of being low to the ground.

It’s a position that, in theory, should put the young star at an immediate disadvantage as his forward leaning body and high center of gravity makes an immediate slap down far easier for opponents.

That does happen on occasion — most recently when Wakatakakage did a sidestep and push down on Aonishiki’s back at the initial charge in their Day 5 matchup in Fukuoka.

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But even in that bout, despite being completely caught off guard, Aonishiki didn’t hit the clay immediately. The 21-year-old’s lightning-fast reactions saw him instantly attempt to recover before a combination of a slippery surface and Wakatakage’s follow-up ended the bout.

Aonishiki’s contact balance is so good that, despite constantly leaning forward at a near right angle, he rarely loses to slap downs — it’s happened just three times so far in his career — and has yet to be beaten by a pull down.

For most opponents, Aonishiki’s stance is a trap. The instinctive move when grappling with someone leaning in underneath your upper body is to try and push them to the clay.

Doing so, however, leaves your body exposed and arms raised higher and when the push down fails — as it almost invariably does when facing Aonishiki — the disadvantageous position you find yourself in quickly results in defeat.

Digging in and attempting to overpower the young star doesn’t offer much hope, either, as Aonishiki’s technical skill when locked up is first class.

The Ajigawa stable rikishi came into sumo with a wrestling background and has been coached and mentored by former sekiwake Aminishiki — one of the smaller but most technically adept wrestlers of the 2000s and early 2010s.

The result is a rising star who brings a unique style to the ring and who is also comfortable with traditional sumo moves both common and rare.

One of the latter was seen in Aonishiki’s most recent regularly scheduled bout when he downed ōzeki Kotozakura with uchimuso — officially described in English as “inner thigh propping twist down.” Essentially a tap that causes a reflex action, uchimuso is a move that is extremely difficult to pull off in high-level sumo — as evidenced by the fact that it accounts for less than .05% of all wins.

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Aonishiki’s downing of Kotozakura with the move was notable not just for its perfect execution, but also the fact that it was the second time this year the same rare technique had worked for him against the ōzeki.

The win over Kotozakura in November was much smoother than July’s and was reminiscent of wins with the same technique by Asashoryu and Hakuho.

Incredibly, Aonishiki’s five wins by uchimuso means he already has more than those two legendary yokozuna in their entire careers combined.

But perhaps the most impressive thing about the young Ukrainian from a technical standpoint is his ability to absorb and redirect the full force of opponents' attacks at the initial charge despite being both lighter and in a theoretically disadvantageous stance.

Though arguably the only trait he shares with Onosato, it’s no coincidence that the two fastest rising stars in the sport share an unwillingness to give ground.

As with Onosato, when Aonishiki is moving forward he is extremely difficult to beat.

But similarly, both men struggle when forced backward, as Yoshinofuji proved in last month’s tournament when he defeated Onosato and Aonishiki on back-to-back days.

Right now that seems to be the only weak point in the new ōzeki’s sumo.

And while Onosato has the power and size to act as a bulwark against such attacks, for Aonishiki the solution isn't as straightforward.

In order to get the upper hand against Onosato, and ensure other opponents don’t follow the Yoshinofuji blueprint from November, Aonishiki may need to add a little weight or come up with an improved defensive strategy.

The latter seems more likely given how incredibly technically proficient the young star has been to date.

Aonishiki’s skill is elite, and may be good enough already to see him make yokozuna. If he can patch up his one weakness, then the sky is the limit.

>>250661
I get that he has an unorthodox style that the rest of the division isn't used to, but it baffles me that after several tournaments, every time someone fights him they act as if they've never seen him fight before. It's as if none of the men or their masters are even trying to come up with ways to counter him. I know they all want to do their brand of sumo, but this is ridiculous.

>>250661
The Japanese love him!

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The circle of sumo.

>>250666
Sanyaku last time was 5 of 7 KKs, 3 of those double digits and one MK was 7-8. Takanosho was the only disaster and everyone knew that was likely to happen from day one since he has a history of putting up big numbers outside the joi and then imploding when he subsequently gets promoted to a full joi/sanyaku level schedule.

>>250664
>It's as if none of the men or their masters are even trying to come up with ways to counter him
Maybe Dan is just so much better that they can't come up with ways to beat him. Pretty much nobody has found a counter for Onosato's overwhelming superiority either.

>>250669
I don't think rikishi actually try and counter any opponent. They just go forwards and unironically do their own brand of sumo then wonder why they lose. A big portion of Dan's winning comes from fighting smart instead of just doing his shiko and thinking the wins will automatically come.

>Heh, Teru is gonna try and put the clamps on me but joke's on him I did my shiko this morning so when I hit him with my thrusts he'll go backwarAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEE MY ARMS TERU-SAMA LET GO PLEASE AAAAAAHHHHHHH

>>250666
The nature of the lower sanyaku means there's a lot of turnover in those ranks by design, therefore a "strong sanyaku" is something that either can only be measured by the strength of the upper sanyaku, or is something fleeting instead of a long-term norm.

>>250636
It doesn't.

>>250639
Slander.

>>250670
If its not a huge physique difference like Teru escorting someone out like a toddler they definitely fight differently. Look at Kirishima v Hoshoryu from november and him fighting idk WMH or Atamifuji

>>250678
doctored photo, there is no way he got that big in one month

>>250680
you haven't been watching closely the last year, he looks substantially bigger every basho. plus now he has all that yusho prize food to eat

The rule for ozeki promotion is 33 or more wins over 3 bashoes when ranked at sanyaku, but in the case of Dan they bent that rule because he is so excellent and threw in dominating a yokozuna over the 3 basho stretch as well as a JY & Y plus getting all the way up to 35 wins, so the JSA was willing to overlook the fact that the first basho of the run was at M1e.

So does that mean that if Dan wins in January with an impressive enough score they'll count the basho at Sekiwake as part of the zuna run and promote Dan to the top rank before the Osaka basho? I'm thinking Dan needs at least 13 in January to make yokozuna for March, 25 wins and 2 consecutive yushos is better than what Hosh did to get promoted so that means Dan would've far exceeded the minimum required standard and the can neglect that the first yusho wasn't done as ozeki, but one rank below, which would be the same standard as Dan's ozeki run which also started one rank below the minimum rank to start.

tl;dr Dan gets promoted to yokozuna if he wins 13 in January

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>>250687
>So does that mean that if Dan wins in January with an impressive enough score they'll count the basho at Sekiwake as part of the zuna run
Absolutely not.

>>250687
>The rule for ozeki promotion is 33 or more wins over 3 bashoes when ranked at sanyaku
No it's not

>>250688
those guys from the early 20th century aren't relevant today and teru's 24 wins over 2 basho is below the minimum standard. takakeisho has 24 wins over 2 bashos, JY & Y and he was ranked ozeki for both and didn't get promoted

>>250690
Stop making up standards that don't exist in real life and are a figment of your latest colonoscopy.

>>250664
Counterpoint: the guys who beat Dan all did it by doing their own brand of sumo.

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>>250687
>>250690
no

>>250664
>>250692
The only way to win is doing your own brand of sumo and your body moving the way you wanted it to.

>>250692
not wakatakeKOGA
he tried his brand against Dan and kept on losing with it so he gave up and went with chiyoshoma's brand instead

>>250690
Takakeisho was never going to be promoted. He sucked.

>>250698
Thank god he was never promoted. What a disaster that would've been. He'd still be yokozuna right now and for the next 5-10 years, sitting out a year between each appearance claiming to be injured. And that on the heels of all recent the absentee yokozunas. Teru was bad enough, Kisenosato never showed up to work, Hakuho to most of the last half decade of his career as a paid vacation and Kakuryu wasn't any better.
Takakeisho doing the same would've had a lot of people seriously considering eliminating the rank altogether or at least revising it's standards.

>>250688
You cherrypicked the guys from the early 20th century who supposedly proved your point and then intentionally ignored the guy from the 1890 who got promoted to yokozuna with only one basho at ozeki.
So there is a precedent and Dan can get promoted to yokozuna in January if he wins 13 or more

>>250702
>intentionally ignored the guy from the 1890 who got promoted to yokozuna with only one basho at ozeki
Being yokozuna in 1890 just meant you were an ozeki who had a special license that allowed you to do a dohyo-iri. Yokozuna wasn't formally recognized as an actual rank until 1909.

>Dan can get promoted to yokozuna in January if he wins 13 or more
He won't. There is zero chance of him being promoted if he wins in January.

>>250703
You just got done spending two month screeching that he wouldn't make ozeki after Kyushu. Everyone knows you're stupid and wrong so maybe you should just stfu

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>>250704

Ikazuchido stole Shishi's bike

>>250705
Bro we have told him this shit like a thousand times
The guy should be in an asylum scrawling "dan" on the walls in his own poop and blood

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>>250687
>The rule for ozeki promotion is 33 or more wins over 3 bashoes when ranked at sanyaku
It's not a rule; it's more a general guideline. Plenty of rikishi have bent and broken that. Teru's first Ozeki promotion contained an 8-7 (usually verboten) and started at M2w for example. Basically anyone in the joi can make it to Ozeki in three basho if they do their shiko and eat their chanko. Tochinoshin's Ozeki run started at M3w which considering the larger Sanyaku back then would've been M4w now.

Picrel.

>>250702
Retard.

>>250708
10 wins in the third basho is considered part of the 33 rule, yes.

>>250710
Anon the bashos in that image didn't result in an Ozeki promotion despite 34 and 33 runs in the Sanyaku being right there.

Dan has been setting so many records its hard to keep track of them all. He is the 4th youngest to win a championship, the 3 who beat him were Takanohano, Taiho & Kitanoumi

>>250711
yeah so what, thats miyabiyama, a known shitter. wouldn't know what hinkaku was even if it walked into the room wearing a shirt with "hello I'm hinkaku" printed on it in big easy to read letters

>>250712
Hakuho was 21 and 2 months when he won his first. Dan was 21 and 8 months.

>Imagine posting about breaking records and not checking Hakuho first lmao

>>250713
Shut up.

>>250714
you must be one of those fags who watches the slovenly sissies in miyabiyama's stable cooking together like a bunch of girls. what a gay hobby

How do I filter posts that don't start with a capital letter?

Why are there so many, so damn many instances of Hoshoryu being cool and happy and interacting with fans and laughing; but you find images and videos of onosato interacting with fans you have to scrap the bowels of the earth?
Is because Onosato spends the time training and Hoshoryu is living the life?

>>250717
Nishonoseki seems like a much more isolated stable than Tatsunami. A recent Chris video said something along the same lines, that Kisenosato keeping to himself was stunting his rise through the JSA.

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>>250711
Not good enough.

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>>250719

>>250712
>setting so many records
>4th youngest
I'm not sure you know what "setting records" means.

>>250719
If the JSA held losing to Asashoryu in 2006 against him they're humongous cunts desu.

>>250680
there's a reason that guy says he's transforming into Baruto

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After meditating and meeting with Raiden in the astral plane it has become known to me who will yusho in January. Unfortunately I can’t tell you who exactly but expect a clown basho.

I asked Tanikaze and he said Dan will go 10-5 following a yusho fever, Onosato will go 12-3 after trying to play safe to not hurt his recovering arm and Hoshoryu will get the yusho at 13-2. His 2 losses will be Dan and Onosato

>>250724
Stop slandering Baruto.

I just saw Moriurara in a recent beya slop. Holy fuck. Dude can't even do shiko stomps. How is he even allowed to compete, his organs must be on the verge of mush. One of the adage's in boxing is that sometimes the boxer needs to be protected from himself, well same principle here Moriurara needs to be protected from himself, they should just come up with a small retirement package and scoot him out.

>>250730
He can still get on the dohyo without using his hands, so he's got Komanokuni beat.

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lol

>>250730
This is sumo nigga, people literally die on the dohyo every so often, take your sensitive ass back to greco-roman gayboy wrestling.

>>250730
Do you think he can hold down employment and care for himself?
He's not fit for the outside world.

>>250737
mogs half of 4chan

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Hakuho is now an outspoken male feminist
https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2025/12/15/kiji/20251215s00005000276000c.html
Expect a Chris video celebrating this turn of events soon

>>250742
Hakuho should have just beat the glue sniffer on the first slight with a beer bottle

>>250743
Well now we know why he wasn't at his stable
He was busy worrying about women's rights

>>250743
He picked favoring his racial brethren over being a good stablemaster and now his is stuck catering to gender confused fat women as a result of his previous poor choices

>>250742
Hakuho will whore himself out to any cause or ideology if he thinks it'll boost his reputation. He wants to be Mr. Sumo and bring pseudo-sumo to the Olympics, and he can't do that without allies.

>>250747
This was also the sense I got from that article, that it was more about promoting his thing

Also FUCK these captchas holy shit

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>>250742
I also feel excited every day when there's no gender equality.

>>250750
Haku/ho/sho

All those anti hakkaku fags who were crying about Hakuho getting the boot look pretty dumb now. Turns out he was right all along.

>>250754
The only reason why he's doing this is because he got ostracized out. You think he actually gives a fuck about gender equality in sumo?

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>>250718
>>250717
Nishonoseki-beya unlike 99% of other heya is in bumfuck Ibaraki one whole prefecture away instead of Tokyo relatively near the Kokugikan.

The isolation is both physical and mental.

>>250759
>NOO I MUST BE LOCATED IN TOKYO WITH ALL THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF BIG CITY OH NO I'M GOING INSANE TIME TO SHOVE SAKE BOTTLE UP MY JUNIORS ASS

>>250759
Dan will be at the table next time they meet

>>250759
damn yokozuna's are allowed to use chairs?

Potentially we could have 4 Yokozuna in May.

>>250770
Zak isn't pulling it off and nobody else is ready for ozeki yet, let alone yokozuna.

>>250759
God I love how jolly Onosato looks. He's just a jolly fat kid.

What does the JSA do to you if you don't claim to be doing your own brand of sumo?

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>>250770
>he still believes in Kirishima

>>250740
Kirishima crushing it.

>>250759
great pic

I heard there were way more rikishi previously. Nowadays with there being less sumo wrestlers, does that make it harder or easier to get promoted?

>>250783
Depends on which promotions you're referring to. The number of Juryo and Makuuchi spots haven't changed in a while, so that's the same. Really just another 150 or so Jonidan/Sandanme guys hanging around.

>>250784
I was thinking in general, if the JSA changed the number of spots per division or not due to the lack of wrestlers

>>250786
They have. Sandanme for example shrunk from 100 to 90 in 2022, and to 80 at the start of this year.

>>250756
You don’t think he was trying to organize stuff like this while he was in the jsa? I’m sure he was working on the same project behind the scenes while letting his mong harass everyone.

>>250783
Easier to start with. Fewer guys to leapfrog if you're starting from the bottom, and a smaller talent pool means the guys at the top have less of a chance to be generational prodigies. However, this era of sumo is also marked by a massive increase in rikishi who did university and high school, which means they've been doing high level competition against their peers for 10 years before even stepping foot on a pro dohyo. It's why tsukedashi exists. So once you get up to makushita-joi it's much harder to break into juryo and then makuuchi than it was in previous decades.

>>250780
thanks

>>250783
The spots people want are in Juryo and Makuuchi, which have stayed the same. There are less overall spots, today its like 1000 wrestlers compared to 2000 in the 90s, but that just means there's 1000 less guys you have to go through to still get stuck at Makushita.

>>250792
fewer

>>250730
So this morning I didn't have time to watch the whole video and only got around to it now. All memeing and jokes aside, there's something very wrong with Moriurara cognitively. He sounds and his body language looks like he has a mental disability compounded with brain trauma and I wouldn't be surprised if this guy had more then a dozen undisclosed concussions so far. He can barely string 4 words together and he needs to think about his answers being saying them. I honestly feel sorry for him and I don't know if his stable even knows how badly he is mentally impaired. Say what you will, but even though I don't mind watching two fighters absolutely rip each other apart in an attempt to inflict enough trauma to force the other to submit or fall unconscious, I draw the line at watching the mentally disabled fight. I shan't be watching Moriurara wrestle, I would get too nervous.

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>>250794
You're thinking about it wrong. Sumo has always been a bit of a social welfare program for outcasts, retards, and violent kids. At least on the dohyo he serves a purpose.

Did they fix captcha yet?

>>250794
>>250795
Unbelievably rude.

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>>250799
He is right though

>>250795
Nigga you can start by scrubbing all that shit off the wall.

>>250759
Too bad all the real ones are either dead or living in shameful exile.

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>implying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRGR92rBD_w

>>250804
Crazy that it took him 5 straight years of Ozeki to make Yokozuna.

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>>250806
Holy chicken bones, Batman. Kid makes Moriurara look like Raiden. MULTIPLE 0-8's!
Also, one of his 3 wins was against Soga, lol.

>>250756
>You think he actually gives a fuck about gender equality in sumo?
He supported the Dream Girl's Sumo tournament when he was still with the JSA. Considering he's always been about all about sumo in the Olympics, him fostering womens divisions makes perfect sense.

>>250810
>He supported the Dream Girl's Sumo tournament when he was still with the JSA
He was also stablemaster to Hokuseiho while he was with the JSA. That doesn't mean it was a good idea.

>>250804
Fun fact: just before this match, Wakanohana henka'd Musoyama to get to 14-1 and set up a potential playoff if Musashimaru had lost.

Hakuho is proud of his African DNA.

New Chris kino just dropped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jDirM902Y

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why do y'all hate women's sumo?

>>250821
I'm gay.

>>250795
Onosato isn't an outcast, retarded, or violent.

>>250821
It isn't proper sumo unless they wear nothing but a mawashi.

Have you ever been so bored that you wanted to stick a full bottle of sake up your ass and drink out of it?

>>250804
Musushimaru was a beast.

>>250821
Pointless pandering for something no one is asking for or wants ti watch other than “special interest groups”. Hakuho is bowing down to the small hat men to get money and fame because he is a soulless mong who doesn’t respect sumo or its traditions.

>>250770
There will be three.
>Oonosato
>Aonishiki
>Asanoyama

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only ura can save us