[sumo] SPoILER -kind of - Ama and ozeki promotion

[Doreen Simmons]

On 2008/09/29, at 21:37, Mike Charlton wrote:

> 2008/9/25  <MBtatton at aol.com>:
>> anyone think Ama will be promoted with a decent showing here in Aki?
>
> I know you posted this 4 days ago, but now that the basho is over it 
> seems
> he did pretty well.  I guess ozeki is impossible right now, but with 
> his
> recent form he really seems to be knocking on the door.   I definitely 
> think
> he's got the skill to make it very soon.  I still wonder a bit about 
> his
> size and whether his body can take the pounding.  But he's certainly
> bulked up.  Anybody know what he weighs right now?
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing him in the next couple of basho...

OTOH, one of my really good (retired) contacts said that Asashoryu 
handed him his win this time because the Mongolians want him to make 
ozeki. Personally I do not go along with this. AFAIK, Shoryu _always_ 
wants to win. FWIW.


Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp