SPAWNKILLED edition>Banzuke:http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Banzuke.aspxhttps://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/>Fight Schedule & Results:https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoMain/torikumi/1/1/>Some sumo links and how to watch live:https://rentry.org/uwbgc88dPrevious thread: >>154580033
Shit's fucked. Like, proper fucked mate.
> Hosh attending the July basho
>>154605851Evil spirits are currently winning
It's time...
>>154605871>believingYou fool!
the second takayasu shoved down while hosh's leg was straight his arms went STRAIGHT down as if to say "I am not good, you win, fuck this". I wonder if there was an audible snap.
>>154605871he will go 6-0 again only to lose everything after that
Evil spirits are reigning, no yokozuna to cleanse the dohyo. It's all fucked up man
> win a basho> then win another bashoIt's that easy.
>>154605885Say hello to your 76th yokozuna
its a disaster
If Hosh pulls out this basho due to the injury then he has to win in July in order to avoid beating Kakuryu's record for most basho before a maiden zuna yusho.
>>154605871I know its not going to happen, this is just for the hypothetical question. If he went on some crazy heater and won 2 of 3 basho with 13+ wins would he get any consideration for Yokozuna? Or would they not consider it cause of his age?
>your two biggest rivals aren't competing >everyone is expecting you to win>fans are expecting you to win>journalists are expecting you to win>fellow wrestlers are expecting you to win>your oyakata is expecting you to win>your oyakata's dog is expecting you to win>you are expecting you to win>lose and be wheelchaired out opening dayKWAB
>>154605910it was funny to joke about until it became a real possibility, now it's just sad. Moreso now because he's injured and not just that he's doing poorly.
>>154605911He would have to get to Ozeki first.
>>154605915No you.
>>154605879Yeah you can tell that Takayasu's push at the best contributed to Hosh's injury and at worst straight up caused it. Hosh was damn near doing the splits and Takayasu made him go even wider
>EAT THIS
>>154605968God, I hope it's just a hamstring.
>>154605916I mean, his record for the most part has been decent for a Zuna, it's just that he's consistently choking in the biggest moments. Overall, he's good enough to be above Ozeki but he's not good enough to be Yokozuna
>>154605968fuck that is grim
>>154605968It's over.
>>154605968that moment his leg fully extended he stopped everything else and went to IMMEDIATELY catch himself. Whatever he felt must have been horrible because he INSTANTLY gave up and dropped.
>>154605968Takayasu definitely got off early in the tachiai. That allowed him to stiff arm Hosh and prevent him from getting a belt grip on either side. Can't blame dudes for doing this against Hosh though: he always has that slow ass leaning forward motion. It's probably pretty easy to anticipate and time. But outside of the early start though, Takayasu just outwrestled Hosh. Kinda sad that the injury will take away from that.
I'm blaming the emperor for the current state of sumo. The moment he stepped in the kokugikan with his lazy ass in the middle instead from the start of makuuchi and giving us the emperor dohyo-iri, he absorbed all the good spirits that both yokozuna had managed to garner. After that, it has been all down hill for the top rankers. Onosato and his worsening shoulder, Aonishiki and his ankle and now this. Fucker should have never come.
>>154606056Surely the blood of a deity can't cause such misfortune?
>>154605968Fuck, his foot looks limp.
KirishizunaAnd you all know it
Lynchian, Lovecraftian, possibly even Kafkaesque basho
So, back to back chaos basho then?
>>154606092Do you mean this one and the next? Because last one wasn't a chaos basho.
>>154606091>Lovecraftianthe squid within the dohyo is in fact not just buried squid, it's pieces of a dead god who's body was found in the marianas trench. In order to try to utilize the power of the corpse they place pieces of that dead god within the dohyo clay to allow it to harvest the pain and suffering. At the end of the basho the "squid" is dug up and reunited with the main body, now fully alive. They will revive the dead god this way.
>>15460591130, 750 bouts, keeps a consistent track record of being right at the top of the division since 2022, more 11-4s than 8-7s. If anything, he deserves the zunaship more than the others.
>>154606116fish people sumo when
>>154605867that's what you get when everyone's spreading salt sloppily, like they dont care.Dishonoraburu
>>154605968>mats are nailed down so none are thrownanti-soul rules
>>154606166Not in Tokyo they aren't. That just wasn't worthy.
>>154606166only like one or two were thrown, it wasn't kinboshi and he was obviously in a lot of pain, he didn't need any thrown
>>154605968
>ufc on>rizin on>sumo onthere was too many fucking things to watch tonight goddamn
>hoshitryu injured>onosato perma injured and won't get surgery to fix it>aon-ACKfinally kirishima will become yokozuna and avenge his embarrassment when he got cucked by terunofuji that one timeand he'll continue the mongol legacy of all mongol ozeki also becoming yokozuna
>>154606229not if Abi has anything to say about it
>>154606229>NOT!>SO!>FAST!
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>>154606311>For 20 years we've only had mammal Yokozuna>We can't do anything about it; those whales weigh a lot, and their echolocation helps them execute better techniques...
YSK that Fujiryoga is getting 10+ wins this basho. The only thing he was lacking was belt fighting, and he just out-belted Ryuden who's been the Makuuchi belt gatekeeper for years. He should walk to 10+ with that weakness gone.
>>154606311Lmao
>>154606311UTMOST FUCKING KEK
EXCUSE ME WHAT
>>154606489>And lo, he discovered it was all just... fantasy.
>>154605968looks like he snapped hard
>>154605968Kisenosato is a reaction image machine.
>>154606489All the top guys imploding has taken away his sumo spirit. I get it.
Wakatakakage henkas 13 more times to claim his second title, doesn't henka on day 15 after he's already clinched the race and injures his neck.
>>154606538At least now nobody can prove I picked Hoshoryu and Oho.
>>154605968Hopefully its just a strained hamstring and nothing worse. You never know with those things just by looking at it. This basho is fucked but hopefully its minor enough to not linger into July. I just hope he doesn't try to gut it out. You can quickly turn a minor hammy into a major one by trying to do anything tough on it.
Wow, this fucking sucks
>>154606489it is a lot easier to run "enthusiast" projects when your niche demographic is so small you don't need to pay for ddos protection or extreme server hosting feestimes change, more people are getting into sumo, the alternative would have been if he put up a btc and paypal link to donate to help support the site but then it becomes a business he would need to register and pay taxes on the income of which is a huge hassle and makes continuing the project no longer worth it if he has no need for the money it would generate and no care for the hassle it would becomesuffering from success is a real thing in smaller otaku communities & it has happened in this exact way before, it will again in the future too
cursed basho
soul stealing siblings are scheminglaughing grandpa is still alive
>>154606782This is the fault of the jeet in the crowd.
>>154605838Now that's what I call bussy. GYATTTTT
also my wife
Classic Hosh letting the opponent start ages before. Hey, at least it's only gonna happen once this basho. Classic gyoji being fucking useless.
I stand by my argument that the issue is forcing them to put their hands down in the first place.
>>154606895He should just do it first like Asanoyama and Onosato. Those guys never get jumped.
>>154607035I don't get why he doesn't start moving forward as he puts his hands down like every other guy in the sport who goes second.
>>154606969The issue is that the person with their hands down first isn't reacting to their opponent putting their hands down; they're reacting to their opponent BEGINNING to put their hands down. You see it best with Fujinokawa, the instant his opponent's hand starts moving he jumps, and gyojis aren't doing a good enough job of catching it.
>day 1>mean mug>lose>intaiwho writes this rubbish
>>154607428What did the spirits of Sumo mean by this.
>>154606533I used to think so until I realized his face is always fucking like this 100% of the time
>>154605871I am not believing because it is easy, but because it is hard! I choose to believe in Takayasu!
>>154606489>>154606761I respect the choice but kind of lame to pull the rug out on day one of the basho instead of like a few days ago or something.now no one can switch to an alternative fantasy league because it's already fucking started.
>>154607667there is a good chance the cost of running spiked in an unexpected way in the days leading up due to increased interested and traffic around the tournament, the realization that it would be unsustainable to keep running once the tournament actually started probably sucked as much for them
What is going on with him?
>my face>my soul
>>154606895this is what hoshitryu gets for aura farmingcountless match after countless match he gets caught by this and he still hasn't figured it out
My shikona? Heh, it's 遅立合竜 (Osotachiaryu), the dragon of slow tachiais.
>>154607248at least with hosh, he always waits so he can try and get the surprise on the other personhe deserves it, if anything
>Mita is back this bashoPlease god let his ACL hold together. Also this means if he's still a sekitori level rikishi he'll bump heads with Asahifuji.
>>154606895You can't expect gyojis to call mattas on that. The reality is that you can barely tell when seeing it live. Hoshoryu should start baiting other rikishis the way Kirishima sometime does or Takakeisho used to do. It's the only way to keep these early starters in check. But he's too much of a stubborn idiot to do that, so it is what it is.
>>154608779>You can't expect gyojis to call mattas on thatI don't>Hoshoryu should start baiting other rikishis the way Kirishima sometime does or Takakeisho used to do. It's the only way to keep these early starters in check.I'm just repeating myself from the last few bashos, but I don't understand why his coaches don't fucking grill him on this. It's genuinely such an obvious weakness that most his opponents have figured out by now. Even fucking grandpa Takayasu.
>>154608896I don't think anyone's taking advantage of him intentionally. Hosh just seems to think his opponent isn't itching to charge as soon as possible despite being proven wrong basho after basho. I hope Uncle grills him on Twitter.
>KWABozuna HotoSHITryuQuite a bout, tho.The way Abema was hyping it up... Is there some sort of Neph-Takayasu rivalry that I don't know of?
>>154605968Hammy, innit.
>>154608970Takayasu's stablemaster always told him that you should look your opponent dead in the eye. Despite what people claim about him being jolly, Hoshoryu is actually more like his uncle than you've been led to believe, and stubbornly refuses to drop his stare before his opponent, which can lead to the two of them having long protracted stare-offs.
>>154609005So they became sore rivals out of plain respect?
>>154609042They aren't rivals. It's all just Hoshoryu being a retard. Hilariously it's the same reason why his tachiai is so bad. He thinks that because he's such a big shot that his opponent should put their fists down first, so he waits, and waits, and wai-ACCCKK!!!!!
>>154609072He's also a hothead who will dump guys like Takayasu who he doesn't like or go to training camps to bully upcoming rikishi like Aonishiki when he tried to force matches out of him where Ao reported he kept trying to put him in armbars before he managed to get the fuck out of there. This was the spirits of Sumo PUNISHING him for his unyokozuna-like behavior. He had it all in front of him, his first clinched basho, and he got injured day one.
This all started when the Emperor attended in January. Literally nothing good has happened since then. They say he has the blood of a deity, but did they say it was a good one? Was he the evil spirit all along?
So Fujinokawa likely gets a fusen win tomorrow. Big chance for the little guy to get to sanyaku for Nagoya.
>>154610079>They say he has the blood of a deity, but did they say it was a good one?stupid gaijin
>>154610079
>>154609849>go to training camps to bully upcoming rikishiThat's basic Yokozuna 101 though. They ALL go to the beya of their rivals to train, and in so doing, they learn their weaknesses, and basically beat the shit out of them in front of their own beya. It's a way they try to keep the others in check and punishing them for daring to challenge them during the basho.
>>154610079The current imperial lineage hasn't been the legitimate line since 1392, when puppets controlled by the shogunate replaced the true royalty. The current lineage admitted as such during the Meiji period, but did not restore the true line back to its rightful place. The current Emperors are glorified commoners with no divine lineage.
takayasu rides off into the sunset
>Dan still even with horseshoe in the yusho race
>>154610355Is the original lineage still around or it's potential whereabouts known?
>>154610762A few claimants popped up after WW2, but today the lineage is considered more of a curiosity since the current royals are irrelevant anyway.
>>154610808That latest claimant? Me.
>>154610405Reverse mongolian
Damn, rewatching the day 1 and Yoshinofuji really looks majestic with the proper leaf knot.
>>154611112I'm just glad Oho has ditched that hideous "gold" belt.
>>154606082
>>154611362Here's your (You) for the effort. Unless that's an old image you're reposting in which case fuck you.
>>154611348it only looks like shit on abema
>>154610405kiriSHITma doing the "you are bringing shame to my race and my nation" reaction face again
>Atamifuji lost>Kotozakura lost>Hoshoryu lost and injured>Takayasu won but it was against Hoshoryu not a good start for my favorites... except him
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