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Great news for Japanophiles - Grand Sumo is back (brief intro to sumo included for those interested)

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  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Onosato - that’s what you call “taking no prisoners”
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    Onosato - that’s what you call “taking no prisoners”
    "I'm still the man around here."
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Day 4 - Double Wow!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    Superb throw by Oho against Aonishiki on day 4.
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    edited September 19
    Day 6 - fantastic fighting spirit from Daieisho and Mitakeumi. Great bout.
    Some terrific throws on show today from rank and filers.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    Wow day 12, sets up the last few days of the Bashou nicely!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    edited September 27
    Kotozakura withdraws on day 14 after an incredible victory over Hoshoryu. I assume he was due to face Onosato with the Yokozunas facing off on the final day? A massive disappointment. He seemed to be back on form for the first time this year, was he producing these performances whilst injured?!
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Kotozakura withdraws on day 14 after an incredible victory over Hoshoryu. I assume he was due to face Onosato with the Yokozunas facing off on the final day? A massive disappointment. He seemed to be back on form for the first time this year, was he producing these performances whilst injured?!
    Disappointing, especially as Kotozakura knew he'd injured himself during his win over Hoshoryu.
    An earlier decision to withdraw would have enabled them to schedule another opponent for Onosato. Also would have kept the Basho alive for Takanosho and Aonishiki prior to their bouts today.
    Can't blame Hoshoryu for Henka-ing Wakatakakage, but it's not a great way for a Yokozuna to win.
    Still we have the decisive bout(s) tomorrow and a guaranteed Yokozuna win.
     
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    There were some boos when he did it, very 'Australian cricket team'. 

    Looks like Wakatakakage who was tipped for Ozeki will drop to komusubi with his make-Koshi. Such a shame and surely just a minor set back. Aonishiki has proven to be the real deal for a fourth time and must be next inline to join a lonely Kotozakura. Having said his countryman was lucky to not be relegated, Shishi has only gone and recorded a double digit victories!

    If Hoshoryu wins we get a rematch in the play-off. We all remember how the last  day of the Natsu bashou went. A finely poised climax!
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Wow and double wow.
    Fantastic.

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  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,652
    Short YouTube piece about the wrestlers arriving in London for the event at the Albert Hall.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C0l0hjgjlk
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    edited October 13
    I like how the Yokozuna's fly in first, the Sanyakus in J (Business) and the rank and filiers in economy, l assume two per a row! 😃

    Gutted not to be going, but the prices were insane.

    It's going to be on BBC. Hopefully they will have the NHK team over and not have a Dan Walker type.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lg8t?fbclid=IwdGRzaANZbrVjbGNrA1luq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEethpNV2p3wnR4pfvm4UFr3E_OzOTQEIrqsBmQeN-wzsZEvokQ4BIsk_BcA1A_aem_lRqt9STYSaoTkJJGQMPh8g
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    edited October 13
    Ridiculous prices.
    I was fortunate to go for 2 days to the 1991 event - had seats with wife and mother-in-law a couple of rows back from the Dohjo on one of them ..... bit of a step up for the mother-in-law from ringside for the wrestling at the Fairfield Halls :D
    Couldn't be bettered as an experience for me so happy to be an armchair spectator for this one.
    Should be a cracker - Aonishiki to lift the prize! 

  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,652
    If you don't mind planning next summer's holidays around it, and aren't tied to school holidays, there's a 2-day weekend exhibition event in Paris next June. Cheap seats at the back are 81 Euros and aren't quite all gone yet. It's at the Bercy arena, where the wheelchair basketball was during the Paralympics last year.

    https://www.fnacspectacles.com/en/artist/tournoi-de-sumo-paris/#calendar-start=2026-06
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    Swindon_Addick said:
    If you don't mind planning next summer's holidays around it, and aren't tied to school holidays, there's a 2-day weekend exhibition event in Paris next June. Cheap seats at the back are 81 Euros and aren't quite all gone yet. It's at the Bercy arena, where the wheelchair basketball was during the Paralympics last year.

    https://www.fnacspectacles.com/en/artist/tournoi-de-sumo-paris/#calendar-start=2026-06
    Cheers mate, 2 €81 tickets purchased! In arenas like that (and the O2) even the nose bleeds have decent views. I'm gutted to have missed out at the Royal Albert Hall, the venue that was the inspiration for the original Ryougoko Kokugikan and probably the highest venue in the world.

    Those prices compared to what is charged in Japan. 😬
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724

    "When in Rome ....."


  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724

    Makes a change from Chankonabe

    https://x.com/Katasukashi/status/1978324972419645678
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Tonight's final 6 bouts:

    Atamifuji v Aonishiki
    Takayasu v Abi
    Oho v Kirishima
    Wakatakakage v Tamawashi
    Hakuoho v Hoshoryu
    Onosato v Ura 
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724

    Could be a Fusensho win for Aonishiki tonight if they can't prize Atamifuji off the bus in time

    https://x.com/chikokukkk/status/1978326139878756380
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,384
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    I like how the Yokozuna's fly in first, the Sanyakus in J (Business) and the rank and filiers in economy, l assume two per a row! 😃

    Gutted not to be going, but the prices were insane.

    It's going to be on BBC. Hopefully they will have the NHK team over and not have a Dan Walker type.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lg8t?fbclid=IwdGRzaANZbrVjbGNrA1luq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEethpNV2p3wnR4pfvm4UFr3E_OzOTQEIrqsBmQeN-wzsZEvokQ4BIsk_BcA1A_aem_lRqt9STYSaoTkJJGQMPh8g
    Was really interested in this until I saw the prices. 

    I feel like this is the case with everything now. NFL, WWE, some gigs, sumo. Just feels more practical to watch it online for free. 

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    Braziliance said:
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    I like how the Yokozuna's fly in first, the Sanyakus in J (Business) and the rank and filiers in economy, l assume two per a row! 😃

    Gutted not to be going, but the prices were insane.

    It's going to be on BBC. Hopefully they will have the NHK team over and not have a Dan Walker type.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lg8t?fbclid=IwdGRzaANZbrVjbGNrA1luq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEethpNV2p3wnR4pfvm4UFr3E_OzOTQEIrqsBmQeN-wzsZEvokQ4BIsk_BcA1A_aem_lRqt9STYSaoTkJJGQMPh8g
    Was really interested in this until I saw the prices. 

    I feel like this is the case with everything now. NFL, WWE, some gigs, sumo. Just feels more practical to watch it online for free. 
    The fact that myself and Peanut aren't going says a lot. NFL probably led the way with the insane ticket prices. Fans need to vote with their feet and not go, WWE attendances are dropping.
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    edited October 15
    Very entertaining day 1  - understandably not quite the intensity of a regular Basho and a couple of the early bouts a bit exhibitiony but some good stuff from the big boys. Aonishiki’s inner thigh throw the pick for me.
    Oyasumi nasai.

  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    edited October 16
    Tobizaru monkeying around .... with British Sumo champ Mandeep Singh Kundi.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    Very entertaining day 1  - understandably not quite the intensity of a regular Basho and a couple of the early bouts a bit exhibitiony but some good stuff from the big boys. Aonishiki’s inner thigh throw the pick for me.
    Oyasumi nasai.

    Very relaxed, especially the bouts before the interval. I don't think the fans got their money's worth.
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Ultra competitive first bout tonight - Shishi overcoming the determined Ryuden.
    Go on folks, give it a bash.
    Day 3 now live on BBC Red Button (970 on Freesat)
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    edited October 16
    Good to see proper bouts tonight.
    Ura does a Ura-special on Fujinokawa. Brilliant.
    Tobizaru 2-0 - Flying and Monkeying; winding up Kotoeiho matching his super high and long Shiko foot stomp and then bamboozling him.
    Very entertaining first half.

    And ditto for the 2nd half.
    Intensity not much short of full Yusho standard. Bodes well for the climax over the weekend.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,652
    Entertaining clown-show by Tobizaru and Shishi just then, but I'm not sure I'd have been thrilled if I'd taken out a second mortgage for a ticket.
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,724
    Wow.
    an underarm forward body drop by Ura on Shonanoumi.
    Fucking ace.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,652
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    Wow.
    an underarm forward body drop by Ura on Shonanoumi.
    Fucking ace.
    A great way to take advantage of the more exhibition-style format of this event and there being less riding on the outcome. Not that Ura needs an excuse to try something high-risk and spectacular, but that was awesome. And exactly what people are paying their money for.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,111
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    Wow.
    an underarm forward body drop by Ura on Shonanoumi.
    Fucking ace.
    His special move! Great to hit it at the Royal Albert Hall.

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