He has been showing great sumo and technical skill. He has the highest amount of wins this year and will be awarded 17 different awards for this basho. I believe if he is as dominant as he was to win this basho - in the next few basho’s he will get the Yokozuna promotion and ol Teru will finally get to retire.

Side notes: I can’t wait to see Atamifuji perform in higher ranks, he is definitely Ozeki worthy if he keeps it up, he just needs to work on his nerves.

Takakeisho as well as Hoshoryu are good Ozeki and will challenge anyone trying to make the climb up the ranks but in their current forms I don’t think they can hit Yokozuna. Hopefully either one can step it up next basho and give Kirishima a run for his money.

Also, Kotonowaka did absolutely fantastic IMO at his rank this basho and I’m excited to see how he performs going forward.

But for now, the rikishi deserve their rest before training starts again for January.

Hakeoii!