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

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,335
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/nicholas-tarasenko-15-year-old-hull-british-sumo-wrestler-japan
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 7,148
    edited June 9
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/nicholas-tarasenko-15-year-old-hull-british-sumo-wrestler-japan
    Thanks for that @Friend Or Defoe
    Very interesting.
    His stable (Minato Beya) was Ichinojo's stable (the huge, grumpy Mongolian who was a buddy of Terunofuji and won the July 2022 Basho - subsequently retired after falling out with his Master amid accusations of liking the hooch too much and not being disciplined with his training).
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,667
    Anyone been to the Tokyo Nights Sumo in Greenwich? Going with clients tomorrow and was wondering what it's like
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 7,148
    CAFCsayer said:
    Anyone been to the Tokyo Nights Sumo in Greenwich? Going with clients tomorrow and was wondering what it's like
    Sorry I couldn’t comment @CAFCsayer - it’s a new one on me but it looks fun.
    Hope you have a good time.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,335


    Is that Takerufuji next to Onosato? I'm looking forward to the weekend!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,335




    As i hoped they massively overpriced the tickets. This (fantastic) arena is about the same size as the O2 and the closed le balcony so we've moved to these amazing seats!

    Also saw Onosato as i was queuing up.

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,335
    That was superb! A single elimination 1 day tournament with all the Makuuchi (I think ) 6th round was the final with the higher ranks getting a first round bye.

    Kotozakua of all people beats Kirishima in the final. Aonishiki hits the throw of the day on Ura, which i believe happened in London as well.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 2,028
    That was fun. The early rounds were used to demonstrate techniques with no attempt made to hide it being scripted. Things got a bit more serious from the last 16 onwards and the last few bouts were indistinguishable from normal fights other than beaten wrestlers stepping out rather than risk injury to try anything drastic. Hoshoryu won the day but lost the grand final. The biggest cheer of the day was probably when the cameras found an extremely famous French judo star in the crowd, but then I guess the crowd were probably more familiar with judo than sumo. Amazing what a few Olympic medals can do for a sport's profile.

    Not far off a sell-out today. A few empty corners, including around me as a lot of people deserted the balcony to find empty seats lower down. I was finding the seats a bit cramped so I stayed put and took advantage of the extra leg-room. 

    Nice to see the drumming, the belt-tying, the bow ceremony and so on.



  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 2,028
    Hard to judge much on the basis of exhibition bouts, but Onosato didn't seem fit in that he really did the minimum - pulled a henka in his first bout and then went down rather easily, shall we say, in the second one which was as far as he could go before things got a bit more serious. Hoshoryu and Aonishiki looked in reasonable shape although I have to suspect that Aonishiki coming up against Tobizaru relatively early on may have been intended as a way to limit how much he had to do.

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