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I think March 2017 was my first tournament watching, but I’m just going off memory since I don’t remember ever seeing Kise as anything but Yokozuna — that is an amazing suggestion and definitely what I’ll be aiming for  Beyond that I’m actually interested in anything pre-2017 for my own benefit so yeah, definitely open to suggestions
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Can you blame him? That much meat impacting the floor would probably bring the building down. Not to mention shatter all his bones. (That video is super cute though!)
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Martytoof posted:I think March 2017 was my first tournament watching, but I’m just going off memory since I don’t remember ever seeing Kise as anything but Yokozuna — that is an amazing suggestion and definitely what I’ll be aiming for https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5-Sg9qYdqj2OB51-OM-p-Kb-phQHINdl Kise vs Baruto on the final day is an all-timer just by itself. Apraxin fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Oct 16, 2021 |
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Apraxin posted:Kise vs Baruto on the final day is an all-timer just by itself. Here's a timestamped link to that one if people (like me) wanted to hunt it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKnfetHmLg&t=540s The whole last day is well worth watching but from a time:action standpoint I don't think I've ever seen a better match.
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We started watching 2014 Haru yesterday which features such up and comers like Chiyomaru and Terunofuji’s first Maegashira appearance. Not sold on either of these guys but I’ll see if they make anything of themselves.
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Yokozuna chiyomaru
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He's already Yokozuna of my heart.
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If I recall correctly my first basho was around Baruto's last. Never really went back and watched his old matches, but I remember folks talking super fondly of him.
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Martytoof posted:He's already Yokozuna of my kokoro*. *Transalator's note: 'kokoro' means 'heart'.
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Watching old Kintamayama videos only makes me more thankful that we have Natto. Nothing against Kinta's videos -- he did god's work to give us the sumo content we otherwise couldn't get, but the production values we have access to now are nothing short of amazing. NHK should just hire Natto to do the official daily recaps.
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Oct 18, 2021 15:34
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Apraxin posted:Natsu 2012 is a good one with some twists and turns: Pro click this one, really enjoyed seeing some of the guys I'd missed out on like Kisenosato and all the older European rikishi, as well as younger versions of today's veterans! One thing I noticed though was a few references to rikishi "crumbling" or comments about the number of slips - was there still a bit of a witch hunt back then over match fixing?
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:Pro click this one, really enjoyed seeing some of the guys I'd missed out on like Kisenosato and all the older European rikishi, as well as younger versions of today's veterans! The 2011 match-fixing would still have been fresh in everyone's minds.
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Martytoof posted:Watching old Kintamayama videos only makes me more thankful that we have Natto. Nothing against Kinta's videos -- he did god's work to give us the sumo content we otherwise couldn't get, but the production values we have access to now are nothing short of amazing. Watching a kintamayama video is like posting on a forum. Sure there's slicker ways to post but something about a low effort sumo vid is nice to me.
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That was good seeing the final day from September not only from a new angle but knowing that he'd already decided to retire. Squatting down taking the money for what he knew was his last time.
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Please don't humanize the man I've irrationally rooted against for four or five years now  I'm coming around now that he's not active Also apropos of nothing above, can I say how weird it is watching Endo fight his first few bouts in makuuchi without a topknot because apparently his hair didn't grow fast enough? 
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A sad little What Might Have Been from that video: the guy who Hak bundles out for his first yusho there at the 10 second mark is sekiwake Miyabiyama, a former college prodigy who made ozeki in July 2000 after only 8 basho in makuuchi, then got demoted again after a lacklustre year and a half when a bad injury sidelined him for six months. He spent the next five years bobbling around sekiwake/komusubi/M1 to 5 without putting another ozeki run together, until mid-2006, when after a 10-5 in March he put on an amazing 14-1 run for Natsu, beating all four of the current ozeki, and securing a play-off with the youngest of them, a new prodigy in his first basho as ozeki, who at that point had been runner-up four times but never quite managed to seal a victory. Hakuho of course wins the play-off, but Miyabiyama recovers from the disappointment and after a shaky start in July he puts together another 10-5, for 44 wins across 3 basho, paving the way for a miracle ozeki repromotion, only the second time in sumo history it would have happened:  ...and for the first time in 50 years, the Board declared 33+ wins to not be enough, and declined the promotion. He held on in makuuchi for another 7 years, but never put another run together again. I really think that if he'd taken that play-off, they wouldn't have been able to justify denying him.
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gotta share this promo new japan wrestler and huge sumo fan taichi cut after his last match in that company's big yearly league style tournament. https://twitter.com/njpwworld/status/1450994785393668098?s=20
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Oct 21, 2021 04:12
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Jason's All Sumo Channel is retiring :c
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Oh no! Jason was the best newbie intro to sumo. He's had a good run of it at least.
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verbal enema posted:Jason's All Sumo Channel is retiring :c Just once? Kintamayama retires 3 times a year.
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jmzero posted:Just once? Kintamayama retires 3 times a year. He says he's probably moving back to the US a year early due to IRL work stuff, so he'll be there for November and maybe January depending on his schedule.
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Kenning posted:Oh no! Jason was the best newbie intro to sumo. He's had a good run of it at least. i love his voice! also he hi-5'ed hakuho so i mean come on he is a legend
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He's so exceptionally large.
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Huge guy, Tochinoshin
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Pokemon is doing a bunch of sponsorship things for the next two basho: https://kotaku.com/the-pokemon-x-sumo-collab-weve-been-waiting-for-1847943551
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Banzuke this Monday, as I understand?
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Oh poo poo you're right I need to finish + post the goonzuke.
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In my defense a week after the basho ended I finally replaced my gaming PC and immediately forgot about all of my other responsibilities in favor of playing No Man's Sky.
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ilmucche posted:Tochinoknee harsh, but fair 
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Kenning posted:In my defense a week after the basho ended I finally replaced my gaming PC and immediately forgot about all of my other responsibilities in favor of playing No Man's Sky. 
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Shiroc posted:Pokemon is doing a bunch of sponsorship things for the next two basho: https://kotaku.com/the-pokemon-x-sumo-collab-weve-been-waiting-for-1847943551 this is rad and there's no way they can't make a legendary pokemon called kaiju in teru's honour
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I'm gonna need a photo of Ichinojo and Snorlax together please.
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bartolimu posted:I'm gonna need a photo of Ichinojo and Snorlax together please. Now I want Nintendo to go full troll and buy Ichinojo a Snorlax kensho mawashi.
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The link said Nintendo is planning to get kensho mawashi so the dream lives for at least 4 months. There also is a sumo wrestler Pokemon 
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