From 3550be337199ca3f872b7074d69c03e59a515c22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ekaitz Zarraga Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 00:40:47 +0200 Subject: add Takerufuji --- content/sumo/onosato.jpg | Bin 0 -> 65011 bytes content/sumo/takeru.md | 167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ content/sumo/takerufuji.jpg | Bin 0 -> 90630 bytes content/sumo/terunofuji.jpg | Bin 0 -> 57264 bytes 4 files changed, 167 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/sumo/onosato.jpg create mode 100644 content/sumo/takeru.md create mode 100644 content/sumo/takerufuji.jpg create mode 100644 content/sumo/terunofuji.jpg diff --git a/content/sumo/onosato.jpg b/content/sumo/onosato.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d9e03f Binary files /dev/null and b/content/sumo/onosato.jpg differ diff --git a/content/sumo/takeru.md b/content/sumo/takeru.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4279d84 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sumo/takeru.md @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +Title: Takerufuji made history +Date: 2024-04-01 +Category: Aprilcools +Tags: +Slug: takeru +Lang: en +Summary: + This March we witnessed history of sumo. What **Takerufuji** did what seemed + impossible. + + + + +**Takerufuji** Mikiya, born as Ishioka Mikiya in 1999, loves sumo. He does +amateur fights at university, where he finds **Ōnosato** Daiki, 2000, formerly +known as Nakamura Daiki, the most prominent young fighter in top-level sumo +today, a worthy rival. + +It's 2017, **Terunofuji** Haruo, born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, as Gantulgyn +Gan-Erdene in 1991, is a top-level *ōzeki*, the second highest sumo range. He +is strong as a monster, lifting other fighters and carefully placing them out +of the *dohyō*, the sumo "ring", almost without resistance. He is an absolute +display of strength, but he's not immune to injury. After several knee injuries +and health problems, he is not able to fight for so long he is relegated to +lower sumo ranges, forced to fight in a lower division each competition he +misses. He is forced to start in *jonidan* when he returns in 2019. That's the +fifth division in sumo. + +
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Terunofuji in 2023 (wikipedia)
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+ +**Terunofuji** is back in business. During his first competition after the +return he secures the promotion to the *sandanme*, next he is promoted to +*makushita*. Two *makushita* competitions later, with a 6-1 record, he wins the +*makushita* competition with an amazing 7-0, securing the promotion to *jūryō*, +which he also wins (13-2) once and has a very good performance next (10-5). +He's back in *makuuchi*, the top level division. It's 2020. + +During the first top-level division competition after his return, +**Terunofuji** wins the competition (13-2), also obtaining the special prizes +for *Outstanding Performance* and *Technique*. One year later, he is back at +*ōzeki* range, winning three of the six competitions he took part in during the +year, and being in the runner-up on five of them. After a great performance +(14-1) he is promoted to *yokozuna*, the highest range in sumo, reserved only +for the grandmasters of the sport. In 2021, after a two-year comeback, he +became the 73rd *yokozuna* in the recorded sumo history (since 1798). + +The young **Takerufuji**, who is still fighting in amateur sumo, decides to +make the jump to professional, inspired by **Terunofuji**'s comeback. In +November 2022, he wins (7-0) his first *jonokuchi* competition, the lowest +division in sumo. He is promoted to *jonidan*, that he also wins (7-0). Next he +makes a great performance in *sandanme* (6-1) and is promoted to *makushita* +where he obtains very good results (6-1, 6-1, 5-2 and 6-2) and is finally +promoted to *jūryō*, the second division. Now, he can consider himself a proper +professional. It's January 2024. Only a little bit more than a year passed +since he started his professional attempt. + +
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Takerufuji in 2024 (wikipedia)
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+ +**Ōnosato** Daiki has also made his bet. In May 2023 he started at *makushita* +level, as he was a top fighter in amateur sumo, he could skip lower divisions. +After two good performances in *makushita* (6-1 and 4-3) he is promoted to +*jūryō* and continues to perform at the same level (12-3 and 12-3) and is +finally promoted to the top division, with a *maegashira 15* range, in January +2024. In less than a year, thanks to his exceptional strength and technique, +**Ōnosato** signs the third-fastest to reach the top division since 1989. He +was so fast, his hair hasn't grow enough yet to tie in a *chonmage*, the +mandatory sumo hairstyle. + +
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Ōnosato in 2023 (wikipedia)
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+ +While **Ōnosato** is doing a great performance in his top division debut, in +January 2024, ending with a great 11-4 record, **Takerufuji** is almost +unstoppable in *jūryō*, winning the championship with an excellent 13-2 record +and being thus promoted to the top-level division, where both young fighters +would meet, again since their amateur times, in March. + +It's March 2024, and the time has come. Both **Ōnosato** and **Takerufuji** +have a great start, with 0 losses the sixth day. After the first two thirds of +competition, the tenth day, both arrive with very good numbers: **Ōnosato** +with a 8-1 after his loss against **Ōnoshō** the seventh day and **Takerufuji** +has a surprising non-loss streak, very rare on first division debutants, 9-0 +that is. + +Both having a similar range, and a very good record, are paired together. +**Ōnosato** is 40 kilograms heavier, he is very strong and his technique is +sharp. **Takerufuji** is 8 centimeters shorter, and strong as a truck. In their +first duel in the sumo top division, hopefully from many, **Ōnosato** is +blasted out of the ring, and **Takerufuji** obtains his 10-0. Since the 15-day +tournament format was established in 1949, only the *yokozuna* **Taiho** +conquered an eleven-win streak in his first top-level competition. + +Next day, **Takerufuji** fights **Kotonowaka**, a young fighter at the *ōzeki* +range, winning the fight and matching **Taiho**'s record. After this, he +demonstrated he could challenge the hardest fighters in the competition. Next +day **Hōshōryū** comes, the young Mongolian fighter is one of the most feared +in the *ōzeki* range. **Hōshōryū** is fast, strong and his technique, based on +traditional Mongolian wrestling, *bökh*, is both accurate and hard to defend +against. + +After a very intense start, **Hōshōryū** lands a perfect technique and throws +**Takerufuji** out of the *dohyō*, putting an end to the 11 win streak, but not +yet to the competition. + +The 14th fight comes and **Takerufuji** has a 12-1 record, the best from all +the participants. This time loses against **Asanoyama** injuring his ankle +right at the beginning of the fight. 12-2 that is, and everybody is afraid he +won't compete the last day, as he couldn't walk in his way out. + +The last day of the competition starts, **Takerufuji**, with his 12-2 is one +win away from the next fighter, **Ōnosato**, who secured a great 11-3 record +and is one win away from the next in the list: **Hōshōryū**. + +**Takerufuji** has an injured ligament, and his master has advised him not to +fight. Nobody knows what would happen. When his turn comes, he walks to the +center of the *dohyō* with a bandage in his right ankle. Even if he loses he +would still have chances to win the tournament if **Ōnosato** loses his fight +against **Hōshōryū**, but we all know he will try to win this fight against +**Gōnoyama**, his spirit is one of a warrior. + +**Gōnoyama**, a great fighter (10-4 at the fight), has a great start, almost +dropping **Takerufuji**, when he put too much weight in his injured ankle. But +**Takerufuji** holds in place, grabs **Gōnoyama**'s *mawashi* and push, push, +push until he is out. **Takerufuji** wins the competition and becomes the +second fighter that wins the *makuuchi* competition as a debutant since +**Ryogoku**, who won the summer tournament of 1914, that's 110 years. + +The tournament continues, as some fights are left. **Ōnosato** has to fight +**Hōshōryū**, the only sumo that was able to win against an uninjured +**Takerufuji**. In a spectacular display of technique and flexibility, +**Hōshōryū** throws **Ōnosato** out of the *dohyō*. 11-4 for **Ōnosato** in the +end, signing a great competition and also wining *fighting spirit* and +*technique* special prices. + +**Takerufuji**, also received all possible special prices: *fighting spirit*, +*outstanding performance* and *technique*; and he is honored as the great +warrior he is. His name is now written in sumo history forever. + +Many have no doubt that **Takerufuji**, **Ōnosato**, and probably **Hōshōryū**, +will become great *yokozuna*s one day, but sadly, the only one we have now, the +inspiration for this huge accomplishment, **Terunofuji**, was out of the +competition, after a very poor start, due to his injuries and health problems +at his 32 years of age. diff --git a/content/sumo/takerufuji.jpg b/content/sumo/takerufuji.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..098df50 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/sumo/takerufuji.jpg differ diff --git a/content/sumo/terunofuji.jpg b/content/sumo/terunofuji.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..707114f Binary files /dev/null and b/content/sumo/terunofuji.jpg differ -- cgit v1.2.3