Hakuho back on track; Asa shocked again at autumn sumo

Friday 19th September, 07:16 PM JST

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TeruSensei at 07:22 PM JST - 19th September

NOOOO!

ASA COME ON!
chibaman at 07:50 PM JST - 19th September

You really wanna clean sumo up, Mr. I'm-gonna-clean-up-sumo-理事長? Get rid of the henka. Absolutely disgusting. Seems to be even more of it this tournament now that you've meddled with the tachiai.

You could see the shame on the faces of Kotoshogiku and Kakuryu in their post-match interviews/shameful victories. What cowardice. Please issue refunds for those who went to Ryogoku today to see sumo. Cos that's not what you showed them, and their tickets could be the grounds for the next mislabelling case.

Chiyotaikai (4-2) was helpless to stop Ama from bulldozing him out of the dohyo

He really was. The formidable Ama got in close and "ozeki" Chiyotaikai couldn't do his only move, and was hopelessly marched out of the ring in less than five seconds. No answer whatsoever. One of these is worthy of ozeki rank and the other is not. Go Ama, and take that rank from that paper-ozeki, and put an end to this mislabelling case as well, you Mongolian genius.
chibaman at 08:02 PM JST - 19th September

Important postscript. Shame on Aminishiki I should have said, one of today's perpetrators of henka - the most offensive and disgusting move in sumo - and less shame on Kotoshogiku, who didn't commit this heinous crime today as stated above, but was probably just thinking about it.
Sarge at 10:38 PM JST - 19th September

chibaman - Did you see Aminishiki's interview after his henka win over Asa? The interviewer basically said, "You pulled a henka, didn't you?," to which Aminishiki grinned and basically said, "Yeah I did!"
chibaman at 11:11 PM JST - 19th September

The interviewer basically said, "You pulled a henka, didn't you?," to which Aminishiki grinned and basically said, "Yeah I did!"

Dirty, dirty Aminishiki. Interviewer started in the same way with Kakuryu. "So you chickened out, aren't you ashamed?" and then waited for them to acknowledge the depths they sunk to to pick up a win. What crap sumo. I don't know why henka is allowed to stand in the books. Here you go, here's a rule which allows you to jump to the side and avoid the contest. That's what people want to see, three minutes of salt-throwing and squatting, followed by not even three seconds of some guy cowarding his way to a better record. Bah.
kenchan at 02:24 AM JST - 20th September

I'm going on tuesday, I will shout down any wrestlers who use henka that day as useless cheats.
tantantanuki at 12:55 PM JST - 20th September

I wouldn't be upset if I paid to see sumo and someone won with henka. Doesn't bother me at all.
cleo at 01:03 PM JST - 20th September

What's henka?

The look on Asa's face yesterday was a picture.
kenchan at 02:33 AM JST - 21st September

tantantanuki> you know that its not cheap to go to sumo right? and you would be happy if they all jumped aside and pulled the heads of the opposition down? I suppose you just support a wrestler and not really care about the skill involved? Kinda like people who are only fans of footbal during the world cup....