March 2025 Tourney Day 6 - all top division bouts, English commentary
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If you’re not familiar with sumo this is a great video to watch, it’s a summary of all the top action of the day and the commentary is in English.
If there are words you don’t recognize…
some words refer to the sumo wrestler’s ranking: yokozuna, ozeki, sekiwake, komosubi and finally maegashira (which also have numbers.) These rankings change after every tournament. https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/
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the rankings are different from the https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoMain/leaders/
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other words like yorikiri and oshitaoshi refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimarite
. There’s a lot of pushing, tripping, and throwing!
finally there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_sumo_terms
bc this endeavor has been around for several centuries.
Here’s the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqXNFN0mwGo