Re: No matches after promotion

[Jan de Veen <chijanofuji@planet.nl>]

That never happened in modern Sumo (since 1909).

Looking through the historic Ozeki list, we find that the last Ozeki who 
has only been ranked at Ozeki for one basho is Oitekaze Kitaro in 
November, 1836.

In the 18th century and earlier the phenomenon of one-basho Ozeki is 
quite common because of the practice of promoting local heroes to that 
rank to attract crowds to the basho.

Joe Petrow wrote:

> On a similar thread, has anybody ever been promoted to ozeki without
> fighting a single match at that level?  Musoyama might have been close,
> having wrestled only about three or four matches before being demoted,
> but he made it back again to make that point moot.
> 
> How about an ozeki who never made kachikoshi at the rank?
> 
> Regards,
>   Joe


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