<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">This comes as no surprise to those of us who are lucky enough to have seen Chiyonofuji in action. He was exceptional with a wide range of skills and a determination we don’t see often these days. <div><br></div><div>As far as I can recall seeing, he never lost the same way twice to an a opponent. When beaten by lower ranked Terao, the following basho he picked Terao up and slammed him to the clay, in a decisive - you won’t beat me again - kind of way.<div><br></div><div>They used to say Chiyonofuji had his opponents psyched out before the match just with his steely stare across the dohyo when they were sitting waiting.</div><div><br></div><div>He also trained like a demon. After being beaten by, I think it was Kotokaze, he went to the Sadogatake beya and trained with him until the two of them were exhausted and had to be stopped by the supervising oyakatas.</div><div><br></div><div>Akebono and Takanohana used to train together to exhaustion in the same way, and in Fukuoka, Akebono had to back to his own heya’s temporary quarters afterwards. </div><div><br></div><div>Are there any who train that hard these days? Being now away from the scene I don’t know, but did find keiko a bit lackluster when I visited heyas in recent years compared the 80’s and 90’s.</div><div><br></div><div>My vote would definitely have been for Chiyonofuji as all-time favourite.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Katrina<div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 20 Mar 2021, at 12:30 pm, R. Brown <brownro214@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Not surprised. How many of the respondents actually saw Chiyonofuji or Taiho in action? Taiho retired 50 years ago and the Wolf 30 years ago, but they are 2 and 3 in basho victories. Note all three were Japanese. Could a foreigner ever be considered the "favorite" in Japan? Who is the favorite baseball player (Ichiro of course), the favorite pop band (probably not a K-pop band). Not hating on anyone. I lived in Japan for a couple of years and they are wonderful people, but they are also an insular and homogeneous population.<div><br></div><div>Kodaiyama</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:18 AM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com">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"><a href="https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007234995" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007234995</a><br>
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