Re: [SUMO] Juryo promotion

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

So far, I haven't heard any report on Kotoinazuma's intention of retirement.
I interpret it that he is not playing with such idea at the moment. Although he
has been in Maku(no)uchi for a long period of time, he had promoted to Sanyaku
only once and stayed there for only one hon-basho.

For such rikishi, demotion from Maku(no)uchi is not significant reason to
retire. I think his case is similar to Misugisato. Misugisato decided to retire
when he realized that it is too difficult to stay in Juryo level.

In Kushimaumi's case, he did not face against Maku(no)uchi rikishi during
Aki-basho. If he did, it is not easy to demote him to Makushita, but since he
did not face any Maku(no)uchi rikishi, he could be demoted to Juryo based on
his record. I think four promotion means four demotion when we don't have any
newly retired rikishi. The only candidate to be considered the fourth demotion
to Makushita is Kushimaumi, I think.

-Toshiyori Masumiriki


Eduardo de Paz wrote:

> >Then, the question is who are those four Juryo rikishi going to be
> >demoted to Makushita?
>
> >As I mentioned before, Tochinofuji (Kasugano-beya) with 1-14 record at
> >10e and Gokenzan (Futagoyama) with 6-9 record at the bottom of Juryo or
> >13w are the two rikishi to be ready to be demoted to Makushita. Other
> >two candidates should be Kitazakura (Kitanoumi-beya) with 7-8 record at
> >12e and Kushimaumi (Dewanoumi-beya) with 4-11 record at 5w, unless
> >Kotoinazuma has decided to end his long rikishi career.
>
> Like you said, Abe-san, Tochinofuji and Gokenzan will be demoted for sure.
> And I think the third will be Kitazakura. But I don't believe that
> Kushimaumi will be demoted from J5 despite his bad record (4-11). So maybe
> Kotoinazuma decided to retire from sumo, but in this case I think it must be
> announced, isn't it? Or am I totally wrong with this?
>
> Un saludo
>
> Eduardo de Paz Gutiez - Leonishiki
> LEON - SPAIN
> email: epaz@nora.es
> sumo WWW: http://home.nora.es/epaz/sumo/sumo.htm


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