Sep 7, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min · 20 segments
Will Kirishima earn the rope? Will Aonishiki keep up the momentum? Will Atamifuji get promoted? Will either yokozuna show up at all? If you enjoy our content, want a shout out on the show, or maybe…
What the hell,
B? I am pulling my support from B.
That's it.
My 25 cents going to his.
No, no, it's gone now.
We will need to ask for your last three years in salary, which I believe totals to $36 to help us pay that FCC fine for dropping the double S word back to back like that.
You
already swore on
this episode.
Yeah, but I said it very quietly.
Yeah.
They can't hear me.
Let's dive into our storylines heading into Aki, and let's start with our returning Ozeki, our three-time Yusha winner, Aonishiki, who continues to just...
He had that little hiccup where he lost his Ozeki rank, but he...
It feels like that didn't happen, and he's just continuing the rise that he had of his first year, where it's floor of 11-4 and a ceiling of 12-3.
Incredibly consistent, Alan Nitschke is, as long as he is healthy.
And he's really... not celebrating the return to Ozeki, uh, after the bonds K was released and he was officially Ozeki again, he said, I don't have any special feelings about it.
My desire to aim higher remains unchanged.
Uh, he also said, I will do my best to wrestle in my own style and aim for the top rank.
Again, I think our Nishiki is one of the, uh, Rikishi that I've seen.
That's talked the most about becoming like Yokozuna, um, I feel like even Kirishima, who is actively on a Yokozuna run for like the past two or three Basho, I feel like he's talked less about aiming for Yokozuna than Awanishi has at this point.
I already did that.
I've already been here.
I'm not, we're not taking that picture.
What the hell,
B? I am pulling my support from B.
That's it.
My 25 cents going to his.
No, no, it's gone now.
We will need to ask for your last three years in salary, which I believe totals to $36 to help us pay that FCC fine for dropping the double S word back to back like that.
You
already swore on
this episode.
Yeah, but I said it very quietly.
Yeah.
They can't hear me.
Let's dive into our storylines heading into Aki, and let's start with our returning Ozeki, our three-time Yusha winner, Aonishiki, who continues to just...
He had that little hiccup where he lost his Ozeki rank, but he...
It feels like that didn't happen, and he's just continuing the rise that he had of his first year, where it's floor of 11-4 and a ceiling of 12-3.
Incredibly consistent, Alan Nitschke is, as long as he is healthy.
And he's really... not celebrating the return to Ozeki, uh, after the bonds K was released and he was officially Ozeki again, he said, I don't have any special feelings about it.
My desire to aim higher remains unchanged.
Uh, he also said, I will do my best to wrestle in my own style and aim for the top rank.
Again, I think our Nishiki is one of the, uh, Rikishi that I've seen.
That's talked the most about becoming like Yokozuna, um, I feel like even Kirishima, who is actively on a Yokozuna run for like the past two or three Basho, I feel like he's talked less about aiming for Yokozuna than Awanishi has at this point.
I already did that.
I've already been here.
I'm not, we're not taking that picture.
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