Aonishiki starts today with 12 wins, with Kirishima and Atamifuji at 11. Kirishima got a rest yesterday because Hoshoryu pulled out. Let’s see what shakes out today.
Aonishiki starts today with 12 wins, with Kirishima and Atamifuji at 11. Kirishima got a rest yesterday because Hoshoryu pulled out. Let’s see what shakes out today.
I was so glad to see Shishi have such a great run. A lot of my favorite guys didn’t do so hot, but after learning more about Shishi, I really like him and was happy to see him do as well as he did. I was shocked to see he is so young still and hearing he only actually started sumo a few years ago, I’m hoping he still has a good future ahead of him.
Yeah, I’m happy for Shishi as well. The thing is, because he was at the very bottom of the top Makuuchi tier, he was fighting a lot of other low-Makuuchi-ranked wrestlers. The big challenge is gonna be how he does once he hits mid-Makuuchi, and he fights a lot more mid- and top-ranked wrestlers. But I know he can do it!!!
btw he’s 29 years old which I think is considered middle-aged in terms of a sumo wrestling career, especially in terms of performing at the top of their game.
Ah, you are right, I got his age mixed up with Aonishiki!
I was going to ask the one day how the matchups work, if they are random or if people pick who fights who as the tournament goes along.
They’re definitely not random, the matchups are determined by a committee after every day, because it can depend on who is absent because of injury. Also, they weren’t going to let Shishi win the tourney ONLY by fighting lower-ranked people, at some point they matched him up against higher-ranked wrestlers, and that’s when he started to lose. There’s also a rule that wrestlers won’t fight against other wrestlers of the same stable, unless it’s for a championship. But besides that, wrestlers will tend to go up against other wrestlers who have a similar rank. Long-time watchers have a good sense of who will likely fight who, especially at the beginning of the tourney, but I haven’t watched long enough to predict that.
That makes sense, considering how structured everything is. I just don’t have enough grasp on the rankings yet to have been sure.
I was also wondering if stablemates fought. It didn’t look like they did, but depending who’s steam I’m watching, it doesn’t always say, and I haven’t gotten around to really noticing who’s in which stable yet.
I’ve been getting recommended some more historical sumo stuff in my YouTube recommendations now, and I’m really curious about the one video it keeps recommending about how modern sumo came to be in the 50s, I believe it was.
huh, haven’t seen it. if it’s any good, let us know by posting it on this community!
I decided to just go and watch it, but it’s 80 minutes so I may not finish it, but the to comment was from @SundayMorningSumo YT channel asking him to do live commentary at the next basho, so I’m thinking it’s going to be good! I like watching their coverage.
It looks to be the uploader’s only video and people are begging for more.
Will report back when finished!