Yeah! midnightsumo, one of the biggest sumo streamers on twitch, replays a lot of those. Sumotori making chanko, relaxing after training, going out to buy clothes, doing off-tourney tours, etc.
btw, what's your favorite behind-the-scenes youtube post? feel free to post it, I'm genuinely interested.
YouTube is full of "behind the scenes" content about sumo. You only have to look. It's not like it's some kind of big secret.
Shishi (clavicle)
hope this isn't related to that shoulder surgery he had earlier in the year...
He was just having a bit of a chuckle, which is absolutely fine.
I know haha. When I saw the video title I thought it'd be something exciting. I prob wouldn't have even posted it if he hadn't moved on to the hurt list.
Well I'm glad this glaring issue has finally been addressed.
Thanks for collocating all these!
Slightly better pic of Fujinokawa's ¡olé!
NHK really needs some better quality cameras in there. The motion blur is a lot
Fuji does a quick pivot and throws Atami on the dirt, finishing with his arm over his head like a flamenco dancer.
I was reminded more of another traditional Spanish passtime.
see y'all in 6 weeks
Asasuiryu comes off the lines with his hands in Shishi’s armpits, preventing the big man from getting any arm control, and drives him back and out.
noooo Shishi... well 7-8 isn't that bad a record, it'll keep ya in Makuuchi at any rate.
Ura and Tobizaru
Ura beholds the chaos he's created.
Fuji does a quick pivot and throws Atami on the dirt, finishing with his arm over his head like a flamenco dancer.
A nice flourish! I thought Atamifuji had him til the last second.
Aonishiki partially grips his favorite left underhand belt but only briefly as it’s broken by Onosato’s heavy nodowa
Well if Onosato won we knew it'd be quick. Congratulations to the yokozuna, he's a force of nature! Good show Aonishiki on making it a dramatic last day!
Asasuiryu comes off the lines with his hands in Shishi's armpits, preventing the big man from getting any arm control, and drives him back and out.
Ura and Tobizaru go back and forth with slaps and pull down attempts and separate at arms length before Ura finally lines up a drive to shove the Monkey out.
Abi and Nishikifuji get some face slaps and nodowa off the lines until Nishi pulls Abi around with an arm bar that brings him to the bales and looks for the oshidashi but Abi dances along the edge and slaps Nishi down.
Fujiseiun gets a deep inside right and can't complete the rear trip over his back leg, but Asakoryu ends up facing away and looks like it may have aggravated his right knee injury so Fuji walks him out from behind.
Asanoyama drive Yoshinofuji back a bit but he pivots and muscles Asa all the way around before getting a yoritaoshi crush out.
Takayasu again with the forearm shiver to the face but despite a slap down attempt Fujiryoga lines up a drive, takes the belt, and throws Papa to the clay.
Fujinokawa comes in hard and bounces off Atamifuji who locks up his arms and drives the smaller wrestler to the tawara where Fuji does a quick pivot and throws Atami on the dirt, finishing with his arm over his head like a flamenco dancer.
Ozeki battle between Kotozakura and Kirishima who finds a belt grip first, but Koto survives being hefted to the bales and gets his own belt grip. Short stalemate broken when they both work the belt position and Kiri comes out on top by shifting Koto's foot over the edge.
TITLE MATCH! Off the lines Aonishiki partially grips his favorite left underhand belt but only briefly as it's broken by Onosato's heavy nodowa which Aoni parries but Ono finds again to quickly take the ozeki back and out with tsukidashi. The yokozuna's thrusts were too much for Aoni.
Fujinokawa was the only one of the 3 trailing from yesterday to win today so he joins Aonishiki for the jun-yusho.
Ura and Asakoryu
Afterwards Ura's like: "That was fun! Let's do it again!" even tho he lost.
Shishi doesn’t know how to handle Abi’s nodowa until
¡¡¡ASÍ SE HACE, SERHII!!! hesStartingToBelieve.jpg
Massive tachiai collision between Onosato and Kotozakura but
"You thought I was settling for the 8-7.... DIDN'TCHA?!?!"
Looking forward to Onosato-Aonishiki tomorrow! Onosato's 4-1 vs Aonishiki . BUT Aonishiki won last time. BUT Onosato was injured last time. BUT so was Aonishiki. AND Onosato's in a bit of a 2-match slump while Aonishiki's on a streak. So who knows.
Other matches: Takayasu vs Fujiryoga, both at 7-7 fighting for their kachi-koshi, as are Asasuiryu vs Shishi. Kirishima vs Kotozakura and Atamifuji vs Fujinokawa should be interesting too!
Aonishiki and Kirishima were also helping each other up afterwards. Excellent sportsmanship.
Aonishiki, today against Kirishima, was at his ultimate tenacity
Some great ozeki level sumo here. Kiri playing very smart but Aoni refusing to be denied.
I think i had the same impression as that man
The white haired guy behind him also has quite the expression.
Asasuiryu has a solid match and works through a stalemate against juryo visitor Daiseizan. After a couple long stalemates he has a great underarm throw that puts the bigger man off balance and switches up to a drive, and although Daisei's last ditch throw attempt almost puts Asa's hands down he makes an amazing recovery and shoves hard for the final oshidashi.
Ura and Asakoryu have a highly energetic back and forth until Asa drives Ura far enough to put his foot out of the ring. Ura doesn't feel it and gets a nice twisting head and arm throw that puts them both off the end. He just needed one more footstep worth of room.
Shishi doesn't know how to handle Abi's nodowa until he's able to get an underhand left grip and go for a throw at the bales, and when that fails steps back to the center and lines up another massive left throw that sends Abi flying.
Takayasu seems to be trying out his forearm to the throat tachiai this basho that's working for him pretty well. He stands Churanoumi up and gets some nodowa but then Chura parries and as he comes in for a drive Papa slaps him down.
Fujiryoga takes Yoshinofuji to the straw but can't seal the deal and Yoshi pushes back and switches to a belt pull with his inside right that sends Fuji stumbling and Yoshi closes and shoves him off the ring.
Hakunofuji almost gets a matador dodge as the bull Ichiyamamoto charges but Ichi survives two of those and pushes Haku out.
Daieisho finishes off a slap battle against Oshoma with a tidy two hand shoulder throw.
Asanoyama has to beat the tiny missile Fujinokawa if he wants to stay in the game. His tachiai gets an outside left and locks Fuji's right in the center between them as he takes him to the tawara but Fuji finds just enough space to shift his weight left and put Asa on the ground before he steps out.
Ozeki battle starts with Kirishima doing a great job keeping Aonishiki from that inside left grip and they have a brief stalemate until Aoni's drive takes him to the bales. Kiri goes for an underhook left throw that sends them both to the ground but it's not enough and Aoni gets the crush out call.
Massive tachiai collision between Onosato and Kotozakura but as the ozeki is driven back he pivots and throws the yokozuna past him to go superman flying to the dirt.
We're left with Onosato and Aonishiki at 11. Since they match up tomorrow WMH, Fujinokawa, and Asanoyama have no yusho chance just one win behind at 10.
Onosato at 11 stands 1 win ahead of Asanoyama and Aonishiki. It's make or break today.
"break" then.
Aonishiki, today against Kirishima, was at his ultimate tenacity. Tenir jusqu'au bout!
Kotozakura surprised me. I think i had the same impression as that man ☞
it will be fun tomorrow :)
Half man, half amazing!
i thought he was half bear 😅
OMG he looks so young there! TIL he's half-Filipino, too.
Asanoyama is 32
Aonishiki 22
Onosato 26
When i accidentally call Takayasu "old", i correct myself by adding "for sumo". He's only 36! Someone should update his profile photo on Wikipedia
I'd read a little bit about Asanoyama before, but reading up on it again, it makes a lot of sense that he'd be in contention for the championship:
Someone told Fujiryoga to smile more:
(Kirishima vs Onosato) This changes everything:
yeah especially bc Onosato has not battled Aonishiki yet: https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi_basho.aspx?r=12836&b=202609
Presumably they'll meet on day 15. If Aonishiki wins tonight against Kirishima, he has a chance at defeating Onosato on day 15 and then meeting for a tie-breaker.
If Asanoyama wins today and tomorrow, it'll be a 3-way tie.
count again donDon
Onosato 11, Aonishiki 10
this can get very interesting in 3 seconds :)