[sumo] Dreadful Commercialism of Sumo

[Lon Howard]

On Jan 6, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Jezz wrote:

> On 06/01/2008, Thierry Perran <thierry.perran at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
>>
>> During hon-basho, Konishiki faced only three times Mainoumi, and the
>> first time was on the shonichi of the Hatsu basho 1995, so after the
>> release of the Aerosmith album....
>> Greetings from Paris,
>> Thierry
>>
>
> I thought they met more often than that.  A search on Sumo Reference,
> comes up with this --->
>
> <http://sumodb.sumogames.com/Query_bout.aspx? 
> year=&day=&m=on&shikona1=konishiki&heya1=-1&shusshin1=-1&rank1=&wins1= 
> &winsopt1=0&shikona2=mainoumi&heya2=-1&shusshin2=-1&rank2=&wins2=&wins 
> opt2=0&kimarite=-1&hthwins1=&hthwins2=&hth=0&group_by=&group_by2=&g_op 
> =%3E%3D&having=&show_form=0>
>
> This suggests 12 meetings in Makunouchi (first in March 1994), with
> Mainoumi winning 7 of them.  From memory I'm not certain if this is
> correct, as I always thought that they ended up splitting their bouts
> evenly.

The scgroup site - http://www.scgroup.com/sumo/mtgs/Konishiki.html -  
shows ten meetings in makuuchi from 1995, the first year of data on  
the site, with Konishiki winning four.

Lon Howard
Shomishuu