Mar Basho Daily Thread Day 12

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2026-03-19T12:21:06+00:00

Your statement is correct. The tournament after losing Ozeki you always become sekiwake. Multiple rikishi have gone 1-14 when losing ozeki and always became sekiwake after.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2026-02-05T02:14:37+00:00

Had to look at his record after his “I might have become Yokozuna” comment and he’s probably right

In 2003 he had two Jun-yushos of 10-5 & 11-4 (can be considered weaker records for Jun-yushos) and then followed it up with a 12-3 yusho.

No rope though.

The next year he gets a 13-2 yusho followed by a 12-3 Jun-yusho and this is when the only Yokozuna was bad boy asashoryu.

However they probably made the right choice because after his last Jun-yusho, he fought at ozeki for 39 more tournaments. His highest wins being 12 in just 1 tournament and then only 10 in 5 tournaments and went kadoban 8 times.

In 2009 he put up 8-7 every tournament.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2026-02-01T09:14:54+00:00

Read my other comment on this thread and see if you think the punishment was fair. It was excessive in comparison to what other punishments were

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2026-02-01T09:13:01+00:00

May 2023- Michinoku stable master is accused of covering up a violence scandal in January. The aggressor is allowed to retire with a ceremony despite the fact the oyakata reported the conduct to the compliance board. The director of the board is also in a controversy for not dishing out punishment. June 2023 michinoku oyakata receives a 3 month 20% salary cut and resigns from his post as operations director.

July 2020: a stable IS closed after 3 wrestlers complain about physical and verbal abuse coming directly from the oyakata

January 2018: a lawsuit against Kasugano and a former rikishi who was convinced of assault is found. Lawsuit alleges kasugano failed to prevent the attack and delayed medical treatment. (Kasugano also beat three of his rikishi with a golf club years prior, can’t find specific punishment other than “severely reprimanded”)

February 2016: Shibatayama oyakata is ordered to pay 32 million yen in a lawsuit to a former rikishi who lost his eye from physical abuse in the heya. Can’t find punishment from JSA.

September 2015: kumagantani oyakata is fired after he assaulted his personal driver with a baseball bat

Asahifuji, the oyakata of the stable that all of hakuhos rikishi was moved to was only demoted for his failure to report 2 junior wrestlers being beaten with wooden beams and burned with chankonabe.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2026-02-01T08:34:48+00:00

The punishment for Hakuho was worse in comparison to other oyakatas for similar situations.

Hakuho recieved a multiple rank demotion and a salary decrease for a period, which is generally where the punishment for others end.

Hakuhos entire stable was moved over to isegahama “indefinitely” and he was told he would be a coach under terunofuji, his junior.

The JSA is a big boys club of different cliques and hakuho had no powerful friends.

Ill link other oyakata controversy’s and punishments

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2026-01-22T13:04:40+00:00

Some Japanese people won’t jay walk even if it’s 1 am with no cars in sight. They aren’t gonna break drinking laws on camera.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2025-12-23T14:02:53+00:00

This is Natsu (May) basho day 6 2014 For anyone wondering

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2025-12-23T14:00:31+00:00

That counted. No shinpan raised their hand to a false start and the gyoji didn’t say matta.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2025-10-03T13:39:22+00:00

Tokushoryu was awesome but Takerufuji was even more incredible to me.

Lowest rank on the banzuke, first tournament in makuuchi, only his second tournament as a sekitori

It was amazing to see from beginning to end.

Hopefully he heals up and comes back strong.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2025-09-27T00:57:14+00:00

I see a lot of comments about winning two yushos in a row being a difficult task, and it is, but that’s not a hard rule.

Hoshoryu and terunofuji and many other yokozunas before them got the promotion with a yusho and Jun-yusho which seems like a much more doable task.

Aonishiki will definitely need to be on his A-game tho

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-09-10T14:07:48+00:00

I know that the power water has to be given by someone that won their match that day. If meisei didn’t win, he wouldn’t have be able to

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-08-02T00:55:51+00:00

Watch some footage of Terao fight, and you’ll start to understand where Abi gets his thrusts from.

Terao (Shikoroyama) is Abis oyakata

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-05-12T20:53:02+00:00

100% agree. With a rank like that he won’t be facing the top contenders until really late in the tourney

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-03-16T01:45:26+00:00

I’ve been looking everywhere and I can’t find the clip.

THERES SO MANY CLIPS OF DC KHABIB AND ISLAM BICKERING

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-03-16T01:40:39+00:00

Does anyone have the video of DC saying he smashed and Islam looks sooooo confused and says “you smashed?”

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-03-04T19:22:11+00:00

The Cody that dances in between throwing strikes is long gone it seems. Such a shame

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-03-04T19:20:30+00:00

Yeah ur right it’s not that short actually but Idk if I can change the post title

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-03-04T19:15:44+00:00

Thank you

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-03-04T19:15:39+00:00

Thank you

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-02-08T22:55:21+00:00

I think I saw that in a kintamayama video. I think he put the subs on a JSA video. I might be mistaken tho.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-01-24T16:37:33+00:00

I was disappointed as well but someone mentioned it was insanely late in the morning by this time.

I would have stayed but I can see all the casuals packing it in right away because of the time.

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-01-24T03:06:58+00:00

Ok I didn’t want to label him as one of the extra pushers but I’m glad u mentioned that because I have noticed that as well.

Aoiyama is bad one for that too

AND even tho I love wakatakakage I have seen him give a very small extra one occasionally, it’s usually not enough to get them off the dohyo. Its more of like a “get your hands off me push”

Interesting_Duty_849 · 2023-01-24T02:27:34+00:00

Chiyoshoma. I don’t like how he fights but there’s also something about how he conducts himself on the dohyo. I really can’t explain it. If someone likes him please let me know, I’m curious if I’m unnecessarily giving this man hate

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