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The best bouts that just happened last night in Japan!

Here's the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEQVHg3gtNE

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hoshoryu managed to hang on for awhile against the bales. Almost seemed like he was gonna recover position out of sheer rage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh yeah he had a good grip too up til the end! That was pretty skillfully done by Chiyoshoma for sure.

In other news, feelz bad that Shirokuma and Aonishiki lost...

The Shishi bout isn't in that best-5 compilation but it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cEP3jbeGo4

Shishi bout spoilerThe hand gestures between Onokatsu and Shishi were a little weird, right? And is that "bounce" that Shishi was doing at the start kinda uncommon? Maybe I'm reading into it, but it seemed like the officials' expressions were even more grim at the end. I wonder if he got a talking-to at the end of the day. Well, Shishi's in the tourney leader group with 4-1 tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shishi definitely has a unique way of setting up before the tachiai. Not sure if it's against any rules but of course the sumo board doesn't generally like anything new.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shishi does not quite move forward as much as other rikishi do, right? It's quite interesting and seems to work out well for him so far.

Love to see both Ukrainians in makuuchi!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Love to see both Ukrainians in makuuchi!

I know, right? And they're up against each other tonight! Aw I'm gonna have to stay up for that, and I just barely recovered from the last time I stayed up!

omfg... they both have awesome aprons...

https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnSumoDataRikishi/profile/3990/

https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnSumoDataRikishi/profile/4230/

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