Welcome to nakabi! The middle day of the basho. This Natsu feels very odd to me, its as if I am still waiting for the real fight to get started. But not only has it started, we are now half way through. I am going to indulge myself just a tad — there is only one Ozeki right now with a winning record: Takakeisho Everyone else is still trying to figure out how to walk and talk on the cell phone at the same time.
Nakabi is always my favorite day of the basho. Will we get a mad cap stomping good day of sumo? Maybe so. But as it is nakabi, we take our first look at the leader board.
But with us having a pair of mid-Maegashira with 1 loss leading right now, the leader board has about 12 rikishi at the high side of the funnel as part of the leader board.
The schedulers have some ideas about getting this sorted out, as we will see today. What oh what happened to this guy? I just hope he can regroup and give it another try soon.
Chiyotairyu vs Azumaryu — Funnel match, the winner will be positioned to exit the funnel and join the yusho track should they win again tomorrow. Of course the schedulers want to make sure that never happens. Midorifuji vs Meisei — First time match, both are in the funnel group. Ideally to keep them both in the funnel, Meisei will pick up his 4th win today to send them both to for Monday. Myogiryu has a career advantage, and has won 2 of his last 3 matches. Ichiyamamoto vs Sadanoumi — Yusho track match, co-leader Sadanoumi.
