(SPOILER) Re: [sumo] Day 6 spoiled!

[Lon Howard]

On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:28 PM, John Racine wrote:

>> one henka which i guess, i will never forget was hakuho's on day  
>> 15 of
> natsu
> basho 2004, when he stepped aside against hokutoriki on senshuraku  
> to give
> asashoryu the chance to win the yusho in a playoff against  
> hokutoriki (which
> he did)
>
> Yes, I had forgotten about that one, Gernot.  I remember being really
> disappointed at the time.
>
> On the other hand, this may be one of the few situations where the  
> crowd was
> really excited and glad to see a henka.

I was watching that bout in my sister-in-law's house in Kuroiso,  
Tochigi-ken, about 10 km down the road from Hokutoriki's home town -  
Kurobane.  I can tell you that in that house, they were definitely  
NOT glad about the henka.   I'll be busy for some time today but will  
be back later with some more stats on Hakuho.

LH