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Wakaichiro Update

Bruce H Natsu Basho 2018, Wakaichiro (若一郎)

We covered Texan sumotori Wakaichiro at the start of our day 8 live blogging marathon, where he won his match against Shinyashiki. Now through the magic of the internet, video above of that match so fans around the world can see him in action. It’s great to see the improvement between even his last tournament in Osaka and today. Clearly gaining muscle, balance and reaction times. This match features a monoii, as the touch out looked fairly close.

The man from Texas is back on the Natsu dohyo day 10, facing off against 105 kg Kotosato, from the Sadogatake heya. This is their first ever match, and kachi-koshi is on the line. We wish good fortune to Wakaichiro, and as always we will bring you results of the match as soon as they are known, and video of the match as soon as we can find it.

Go Texas Sumo!

Wakaichro Wins Day 8 Match

Bruce H Natsu Basho 2018, Wakaichiro (若一郎)

Wakaichiro May 20

In the course of our live blogging spectacular overnight, we started our evening with news that Wakaichiro prevailed in his day 8 match, boosting his tournament record to a respectable 3-1. Fans have noticed that Wakakichro always seems to fight better in Tokyo, which is an interesting oddity. He is now one win away from hi kachi-koshi, which would keep him perfectly alighted to his pattern of winning in Tokyo, losing on the road.

Sadly at the moment, we don’t have any video to share of his win, but hopefully it will crop up in the boundless fountain that is the internet at some point.

Wakaichro Day 8 Match

Bruce H Natsu Basho 2018, Wakaichiro (若一郎)
Wakaichiro-Noodles
If you see this man, buy him noodles!

As if day 8 could get any more awesome… Well Wakaichro has a match day 8 as well. It’s against Shinyashiki from Otake beta. He’s been in sumo for 28 tournaments, so he brings some experience to the dohyo. He’s much lighter than our Texas rikishi, but I am sure he makes up for that in skill. His highest ever rank is Sandanme 60.

With us live blogging and possibly having folks inside the Kokugikan, I am sure there will be no shortage of coverage of this match.