Hoshoryu epic fail edition.
His failure as a yokozuna will be remembered forever

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>>227262
its absurd that hakuho expects the japanese fans to consider him a patriotic japanese citizen while he does everything he can to flood their national sport with foreigners. and now terunofuji is going to start trying to pull the same bullshit act too.
someone needs to start busting beer bottles over their heads, apparently thats the only way mongs can learn

>>227284
Don't worry, Dan's yokozuna bid will cleanse the top of sumo from the Mongol menace

>>227285
Eastern Europe doesn't have a great track record at ousting Mongols.

Onosato should change his shikona to Kamikaze when he makes Yokozuna

Remember, the anon you are arguing with looks like this.

>>227289
how do people even get this big

>>227290
He did his own brand of eating, and took it one day at a time.

It's like you guys have never seen a fat guy before

>>227292
I see them all the time and I always wonder it. I used to be fat too, I ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, but I never even got close to that big.

>>227293
At my biggest I was ~300lbs and it was an active effort to eat enough to maintain that weight. On top of that, the added difficulty in everyday tasks like walking or climbing stairs was unbearably annoying. Getting as fat as Superman there is truly a superhuman ability, most people could never get close.

You get that big by injecting insulin because the (((doctor))) told you to.

Interesting that Hoshoryu was wearing no bandage or other protective gear on his supposedly injured right elbow for the last match of basho that he contested. If his elbow was legitimately injured then he would have been wearing something on it.

>>227298
Shhhhh, the r*dditards will get upset

>>227298
>If his elbow was legitimately injured then he would have been wearing something on it.
Or if it was injured, he'd drop out of the yuusho rather than putting a bandage over it so he could actually recuperate.

>>227302
If he hadn't said he was going to stay in no matter what, he could have just gone kyujo before the tournament even started. It was ridiculous to take part knowing he wasn't in good condition - he's good, but not good enough to contend for the championship with one arm.

>>227303
Okay. So?

>>227303
>If he hadn't said he was going to stay in no matter what
Stop being retarded. This is Asian face saving 101. He said that to make it clear it wasn't his spirit and willingness to fight that were in question, just his physical health. It's the same as when rikishi who are about to retire talk about how much they want to keep fighting.

>>227306
How has he saved face by swearing he wont drop out and then dropping out? He's made himself look worse than if he just sat the basho out.

This level of seethe is getting ridiculous.
Hoshoryu's mere existance has broken them.

Who else gang TMD here?

>>227305
So he made a mockery of the rank.

>>227311
Its really the JSA who are responsible for that.
They promoted someone who everyone knew was not qualified for the yokozuna rank and they did it solely for the purpose of insuring that the tour stop in Europe would be popular.
They really spat in the face of Japanese fans by lowering the dignity of sumo in order to please a bunch of sissy eurofaggot foreigners.

>>227312
>Hoshoryu loses every match at the London exhibition
>"Yokozuna" enters the English lexicon as a synonym for "disappointing minor celebrity"

>>227311
You're talking about something that happened almost 3 full weeks ago at this point, get over it.

Funny how just two months ago when Kotozakura threw his Yokozuna run everyone just assumed he was injured even though he didn't even say he was.
I wonder if perhaps those very same people are now the ones shitposting about Hoshoryu's fake injury?
Hmmmm

>>227311
Sorry that you feel that way bro, it'll get better I promise.
Just hang in there ok, I know life is tough right now.
Just like Hoshoryu, its time to ganbarize

>>227313
If they hype Hoshoryu up as being some incredible guy and then he fails miserably, the British will never let sumo live it down and it'll forever be a laughing stock. It's already bad enough, people here just think it's unathletic fatsos slapping each other.

>>227315
It was patently obvious that Zak was injured due to his substandard performance. Hoshoryu's performance wasn't much worse than his usual though. Remember in January he was 6-3 and lost to maegashira jobbers, so for him to be 5-4 after losing to jobbers isn't too far away from what he'd done two months prior.

>>227319
January was an outlier for Hoshoryu not the norm. He went 4-5 vs maegashira his worst result since 2022.

>>227321
If January wasn't his norm, what was March?

>>227318
>Witness the battle of power, endurance and strategy as these great athletes showcase techniques honed over centuries. Who will prevail against the champion Yokozuna? Which of the 82 winning moves will be used? No one knows how the tournament (basho) will unfold, but every step, bow, and clash is a rare opportunity to experience one of the most extraordinary spectacles in sport.

Posted on the Royal Albert Hall's website, right under a picture of Hoshoryu doing his dohyo-iri. He's absolutely being presented as the man to beat, and the rest of the description makes it plain that it's being marketed towards people who don't already follow sumo.

>>227322
An injury.

>>227323
Best case scenario is he performs in May then sits out July so he can fully rest up for London.

>>227318
>people here just think it's unathletic fatsos slapping each other.
The moment they see Kinbozan dish it out, their suspicions are going to be confirmed

>>227315
>whataboutism

>>227322
This March was normal for him, he loses on day 1 more often than not and typically loses a lot in the first week, since last March he is 2-5 on Day 1 and averages nearly 3 losses in the first week.

>>227325
He's being set up by the JSA. They want an unripe, unready Mongolian yokozuna to embarrass himself, so they can follow up with a strong Japanese yokozuna, to truly end the Mongol Era. That's the whole purpose of the London trip, so they can bring the Mongols down without ruining a real basho for the domestic audience.

Just because the board name starts with /x, it doesn't mean that you have to be a bunch of schizos you know

>>227331
It's a good thing he picked Kise-beya. Anyone would feel better about their injury struggles if they lived with poor old Higohikari.

>>227332
>hasn't won a match in over 2 years
jesus christ

>>227333
He makes Koga look like Hakuho. He's one of sumo's lifers, and I can't imagine there's many options for him in civilian life if he's prepared to stay on with this sort of record for so long. The man exudes an aura of absolute hopelessness, it's like watching a snail try to cross six lanes of traffic whenever he appears in Kise videos.

>>227330
I wish I had thought of this.

>>227337
Stop trying to force that for hoshoryu. It worked with Takakeisho because that's legitimately what he looked like.
If you wanna shit on the dude at least be original instead of stealing a different rikishi's insult.

>>227338
If anything it looks like the good old
>I told you about the stairs bro

>>227339
That reminds me of this one from early in Teru's yoko when the day of the knee posting was huge.

>>227340
Who could've imagined Tobizaru would be the one to finally take his knees out.

>>227341
Tobizaru imagined it, for sure. Every single time they met it felt like he was going directly for the knees.

>WHERE'S THE FUCKING MONEY TOBI

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>>227338
?

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>>227343
Those matches were some of the few were Teru would get visibly shaken.

>>227345
Oh so you don't actually have a response, instead continuing to push a comment that was said about an entirely different person.

>>227345
Gonna make one for Onosato now?

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>>227347
He doesn't look like a run over toad there, he looks like he's been left behind by his friends on a night out for being too wasted.

>>227349
They both kinda do

>>227347
He really is fucking huge. Not in an Ichonojo sense, but in just being wide as fuck.

>>227353
He's not far off peak Ichinojo size as things stand, and he carries it a lot better. I can see him fighting at over 200kg as he ages.

>>227355
Ichinojo looked like the Michelin man because he consumed most of his calories in the form of sugar/alcohol and didn't exercise very much.

>>227356
This is true. There's a huge difference between Ichinojo and Musashimaru, even though they were roughly the same height and weight at their peak. Musashimaru is probably a better comparison for Onosato, although I don't think Onosato is ever going to be as bulky.

>>227349
He looks like he got scared by a big spider and his friend's running up to smash it for him with his hand.

>>227357
I hope so, he's enough of a bulldozer as is and I'd like to see some more technical stuff from him.

>>227357
Musashimaru is a top American football prospect who got into sumo. Haven't you seen his maezumo debut fight? Pantera would've been proud of that vulgar display of power.

https://youtu.be/BNZr4Oeuyrw?si=nDrM01jL1ZJpgHQB&t=79

>>227360
Exactly - Musashimaru would have struggled to get much under 250lbs even if he was lean, and at his peak was possibly one of the most densely muscled men in the world. Ichinojo carried a lot more fat and a lot less muscle.

>>227360
It's interesting that it took Musashimaru five years to go from Ozeki to Yokozuna. Sure his twelve yushos look like an incredible achievement, but that's a really long time. Even (((Hoshoryu))) obliterated that.

>>227362
The most interesting thing about sumo in general is how interesting and unique various rikishi's careers are. Even someone as boring as Kagayaki has the distinction of being notably boring.

>>227363
And while Ryuden seems like a nobody, he had to drop all the way down to jonokuchi and fought back to komusubi.

>>227364
He also broke his hip like 3 times in that period I believe, and then you see him move and notice how his lower back/hips are so stiff.

>>227315
>Funny how just two months ago when Kotozakura threw his Yokozuna run everyone just assumed he was injured even though he didn't even say he was.
Not me. I was there shitting on all the guys going "next yokozuna! protagonist of sumo!" even though he hadn't shown the consistency to get two double digit bashos in a row, let alone two yusho.

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>>227362
>Musashimaru five years to go from Ozeki to Yokozuna
Takanohana a big part. The sanyaku were stacked

>>227289
A body made to be a career Jonidan, a shame it's wasted being a couch potato

Right boys, it's time to guess what the next inter-basho drama will revolve around. Drunken brawling? Shock injury during the jungyo? Rikishi coming out of the closet? There must be something in the pipeline, it's a long time until May 11.

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>>227366
Lmao mind broken Zak is better when he’s healthy hoshoryu has been getting man handled since Zak entered his prime his absolute defense sends Hoshoryu to the clay a lot recently. It’s obvious he’s injured and I’m glad he’s taken it easy because he’ll go back to 14-1 yusho’s while hosh continues to scrap by with 12-2s that’s if he ever touches the cup again with Onosato coming into his own. Also no back to back double digits is silly when he had 5 in a row.

>Lmao mind broken
>*a paragraph long essay sans punctuation*

>>227387
Onosato will announce he's transgender and get banned from competing in Ozumo, but not before revealing his new kesho mawashi which is just a giant tranny pride flag.

>>227390
It'd be interesting to see what the actual ruling is regarding transgenderism. As far as I'm aware, the "no women on the dohyo" rule is linked to menstruation and being ritually impure - which of course couldn't apply to Onosato.

>>227392
Nah, tossed out immediately. I'm sure there's all sorts of weirdness behind closed doors, but coming out with any of it is career suicide.