Re: Akebono vs. other Konishiki + Musashimaru

[guje@nmr.lpc.ethz.ch (Gunnar Jeschke)]

Martin wrote:

> Upon reflection, it seems to me that all the matches I saw between the 3
> major gaijin were somewhat lame.  The winner always seemed to be
> 'predictable'.
> By this I mean that if it looked as if Konishiki may have been promoted to
> Yokazuna, then Akebono and Musashimaru seemed to fall over.  Akebono's
> promotion, and over went Konishiki and Musashimaru etc. etc.

I remember some basho back in 1993 when Konishiki was starting to go down the ranks (maybe he was still an ozeki but managed only to get 8:7 or so, can anybody check that?). I was very surprised when he beat Akebono who was already yokozuna at that time. But I think by now Konishiki is even weaker and Akebono is now too clever to be upset by him. On the other hand, who knows?

Gunnar  


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