<div dir="ltr">One item I find somewhat interesting, that so many ozeki win their first championship after becoming ozeki.  Ozeki means champion, but actually being a champion is not required, only a suggestion that 33 wins over three consecutive basho at the komusubi and sekiwake level.  Kisenosato and Kotoshigiku both made it to ozeki without a championship.  Takakeisho was promoted without a championship.  Shodai did have one but also did not reach the 33 win level.  As I recall, Asanoyama won his first championship after promotion.  It would seem as though the council should promote Terunofuji back to ozeki now.  He doesn't have 33 wins in the last three basho.  He did get 45 wins over the last four, got his second yusho and defeated both two remaining ozeki in this month's tourney.  Will he get it or will they make him wait?<div><br></div><div>Kodaiyama</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:48 PM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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