Depending on how long it's been since you dropped you might not recognize the lineup at all
I feel like I watched January and March maybe, but i just watched a Primetime video about the last day of July and i'm fucking baffled:
Who the absolute fuck is Hakuoho and how did they go from literally not existing to yusho race in 6 months?
Hokutofuji is in a playoff? How?!?
Hoshoryu finally made uncle proud and didn't bottle it? and now he might be Ozeki? Damn this rules.
I do remember Shodai finally becoming kill and i feel like Mitakeumi had either already dropped by that point or was 'Ozekiwake'.
Did Asanoyama ever make it back up? And what happened to the Waka boys?
Hokutofuji stronk, he was 10-0 earlier this year too, but that run got fucked when Takekeisho did a henka. Hakuoho (Ochiai) is another Hakuho apprentice, with his other two sekitori protege being Kiho (another tiny wrestler like Enho) and Hokuseiho (biggest wrestler, like 6'8''). Enho is out with an injury and won't be back for a while (and has already fallen to makushita, with people speculating he'll retire). Before this he was one basho away from returning to the top division and was looking strong.
Asanoyama had his bicep torn this basho but still got kk, so he's making steady progress back to sanyaku. Wakatakakage was injured and will be out for a year or so. Wakamotoharu just failed his ozeki run. Wakatakamoto is steadily rising through makushita, although I don't expect him to make juryo. Hoshoryu is 100% ozeki next basho. Uncle is proud but is still uncle. He added a picture of nephew's trophy to his own trophy case and criticized him for not winning sooner lol. The new ozeki Kirishima was injured and tried to fight through it, but will be kadoban next basho alongside Takakeisho. Terunofuji is injured again, having slipped a disk in training prior to this basho. He still had an AMAZING match with Tobizaru, resulting in something not seen since covid
yeah I remember him coming up, beastman with a baby face
Enho is out with an injury and won't be back for a while (and has already fallen to makushita, with people speculating he'll retire). Before this he was one basho away from returning to the top division and was looking strong.
Now, this has me really sad, he was definitely in my boy stable.
This has also led me to find out that Ishiura has actually retired which is crushing, he was my tier 1 boy. At least he has become coach Magaki under Miyagino, which is nice.
He added a picture of nephew's trophy to his own trophy case and criticized him for not winning sooner lol.
He still had an AMAZING match with Tobizaru, resulting in something not seen since covid
Who the absolute fuck is Hakuoho and how did they go from literally not existing to yusho race in 6 months?
Hakuoho did sumo non-professionally and was good enough to be allowed to start midway through Makushita, Endo did something similar way back when he first appeared. He did that 4 basho ago and has been burning through all the lower competition since, clearly belongs in the top, it's just a question of where his ceiling is. Also if you couldn't already tell, Miyagino (the former Hakuho) is signaling his faith in this guy's abilities with his ring name.
I feel like I watched January and March maybe, but i just watched a Primetime video about the last day of July and i'm fucking baffled:
I do remember Shodai finally becoming kill and i feel like Mitakeumi had either already dropped by that point or was 'Ozekiwake'.
Did Asanoyama ever make it back up? And what happened to the Waka boys?
Hokutofuji stronk, he was 10-0 earlier this year too, but that run got fucked when Takekeisho did a henka. Hakuoho (Ochiai) is another Hakuho apprentice, with his other two sekitori protege being Kiho (another tiny wrestler like Enho) and Hokuseiho (biggest wrestler, like 6'8''). Enho is out with an injury and won't be back for a while (and has already fallen to makushita, with people speculating he'll retire). Before this he was one basho away from returning to the top division and was looking strong.
Asanoyama had his bicep torn this basho but still got kk, so he's making steady progress back to sanyaku. Wakatakakage was injured and will be out for a year or so. Wakamotoharu just failed his ozeki run. Wakatakamoto is steadily rising through makushita, although I don't expect him to make juryo. Hoshoryu is 100% ozeki next basho. Uncle is proud but is still uncle. He added a picture of nephew's trophy to his own trophy case and criticized him for not winning sooner lol. The new ozeki Kirishima was injured and tried to fight through it, but will be kadoban next basho alongside Takakeisho. Terunofuji is injured again, having slipped a disk in training prior to this basho. He still had an AMAZING match with Tobizaru, resulting in something not seen since covid
Natto has the end on his youtube, tho he should still have most up on his discord telegram and rumble
oh god oh fuck, he's gonna dominate
yeah I remember him coming up, beastman with a baby face
Now, this has me really sad, he was definitely in my boy stable.
This has also led me to find out that Ishiura has actually retired which is crushing, he was my tier 1 boy. At least he has become coach Magaki under Miyagino, which is nice.
fuck yeah, love the flying monkey
Hakuoho did sumo non-professionally and was good enough to be allowed to start midway through Makushita, Endo did something similar way back when he first appeared. He did that 4 basho ago and has been burning through all the lower competition since, clearly belongs in the top, it's just a question of where his ceiling is. Also if you couldn't already tell, Miyagino (the former Hakuho) is signaling his faith in this guy's abilities with his ring name.