Basho centre2008-11
Kyushu Basho 2008.
2008-11-09 → 2008-11-23
Source: Sumo-API · last synced 2026-11-04 20:33 JST · provisional results · Never shown as liveResults: ✓✓ confirmed by two sources · ✓ provisional (one source) · ! under review (sources disagree)
Tournament prizes
Jūryō yūshō
Kinboshi
A maegashira beats a yokozuna: a gold star with a lifelong bonus.
None this tournament
Lower-division champions
Makushita
KotokuniSandanme
KenoJonidan
KeitenkaiJonokuchi
Wakasuruga
Pick a day
What to watch on day 15
Picked by rules, without this day's results. Some reasons use how the tournament is going.
- Hakuho vs KotomitsukiYokozuna Hakuho against ōzeki Kotomitsuki: the very top of the banzuke.
- Chiyotaikai vs KotooshuŌzeki against ōzeki: Chiyotaikai vs Kotooshu.
- Harumafuji vs BarutoHarumafuji leads the tournament at 12-2: a slip would tighten the yūshō race.
- Bushuyama vs KimurayamaBushuyama is one win from kachi-koshi (7-7).
- Tosanoumi vs TamawashiTosanoumi has never beaten Tamawashi: 0-4 in their previous bouts.
Bouts · Day 15 · Makuuchi
- #1✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Head to head
Tosanoumi 0–4 Tamawashi
Last: Sep 2010, won by Tamawashi · oshitaoshi
- Tosanoumi
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Jūryō: 47.7% (199)
- Career: 44%
- Tamawashi
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 52% (537)
- Career: 49.7%
- #2✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Yamamotoyama 0–2 Homasho
Last: Mar 2009, won by Homasho · oshidashi
- Yamamotoyama
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 41.7% (48)
- Career: 48.4%
- Homasho
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Jūryō: 71.6% (74)
- Career: 53.2%
- #3✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Toyozakura 1–11 Kitataiki
Last: Sep 2010, won by Kitataiki · oshidashi
- Toyozakura
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 41.9% (210)
- Career: 47.1%
- Kitataiki
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Jūryō: 52.7% (334)
- Career: 48.3%
- #4✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Chiyohakuho 1–7 Koryu
Last: May 2010, won by Koryu · oshidashi
- Chiyohakuho
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 50.9% (53)
- Career: 49.2%
- Koryu
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 35.1% (97)
- Career: 48.8%
- #5✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Kokkai 1–2 Aran
Last: Jan 2010, won by Aran · uwatenage
- Kokkai
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 50.2% (261)
- Career: 46.7%
- Aran
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 61.5% (109)
- Career: 46.5%
- #6✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Bushuyama 3–5 Kimurayama
Last: Mar 2012, won by Bushuyama · oshidashi
- Bushuyama
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 40% (85)
- Career: 45.5%
- Kimurayama
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 44.9% (176)
- Career: 46.4%
- #7✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Tochiozan 3–7 Tamanoshima
Last: Jan 2010, won by Tamanoshima · yorikiri
- Tochiozan
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 56.9% (288)
- Career: 51.1%
- Tamanoshima
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 55.5% (265)
- Career: 46.5%
- #8✓ Provisional · 1 sourceWest won
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Masatsukasa 3–1 Tochinonada
Last: Jul 2010, won by Masatsukasa · yorikiri
- Masatsukasa
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 28.6% (14)
- Career: 50.2%
- Tochinonada
- Style: Throws and twists
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 50.4% (268)
- Career: 46.1%
- #9✓ Provisional · 1 sourceWest won
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Miyabiyama 15–9 Takamisakari
Last: May 2011, won by Miyabiyama · oshidashi
- Miyabiyama
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 67.2% (192)
- Career: 49.5%
- Takamisakari
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 45% (338)
- Career: 47%
- #10✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Asasekiryu 5–9 Kakizoe
Last: Jul 2010, won by Asasekiryu · kotenage
- Asasekiryu
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 46.6% (320)
- Career: 49.1%
- Kakizoe
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 48% (244)
- Career: 46.9%
- #11✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Tokitenku 6–4 Hokutoriki
Last: Mar 2010, won by Tokitenku · yorikiri
- Tokitenku
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 47% (351)
- Career: 48.5%
- Hokutoriki
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 57.5% (287)
- Career: 47.7%
- #12✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Kotoshogiku 24–7 Yoshikaze
Last: Mar 2019, won by Kotoshogiku · oshidashi
- Kotoshogiku
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 9 or lower: 55.5% (191)
- Career: 54.1%
- Yoshikaze
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 47.2% (432)
- Career: 48.5%
- #13✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Takekaze 17–7 Wakanosato
Last: Sep 2013, won by Takekaze · oshidashi
- Takekaze
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 47.7% (537)
- Career: 47.6%
- Wakanosato
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 54.5% (431)
- Career: 51.6%
- #14✓ Provisional · 1 sourceWest won
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Dejima 4–7 Futeno
Last: May 2009, won by Futeno · yorikiri
- Dejima
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 54.7% (307)
- Career: 48.8%
- Futeno
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 42.5% (179)
- Career: 47.8%
- #15✓ Provisional · 1 sourceWest won
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Toyonoshima 9–32 Kisenosato
Last: Mar 2016, won by Kisenosato · yorikiri
- Toyonoshima
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 55.3% (421)
- Career: 50.5%
- Kisenosato
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 73.9% (482)
- Career: 61.1%
- #16✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Kyokutenho 8–16 Aminishiki+ 1 by fusen
Last: Jul 2015, won by Aminishiki · yorikiri
- Kyokutenho
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Sekiwake and komusubi: 44% (166)
- Career: 47%
- Aminishiki
- Style: Throws and twists
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 55.4% (569)
- Career: 49%
- #17✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Goeido 18–10 Tochinoshin
Last: Jan 2020, won by Goeido · yorikiri
- Goeido
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Maegashira 1–8: 65.2% (471)
- Career: 58%
- Tochinoshin
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Sekiwake and komusubi: 44.3% (131)
- Career: 51.1%
- #18✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Harumafuji 15–12 Baruto
Last: Mar 2013, won by Harumafuji · tsukiotoshi
- Harumafuji
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Sekiwake and komusubi: 69.6% (224)
- Career: 65.1%
- Baruto
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Sekiwake and komusubi: 72.7% (99)
- Career: 66%
- #19✓ Provisional · 1 sourceWest won
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Chiyotaikai 7–15 Kotooshu
Last: Jul 2009, won by Chiyotaikai · hatakikomi
- Chiyotaikai
- Style: Pushing/thrusting (oshi/tsuki)
- Vs Yokozuna and ōzeki: 33.8% (195)
- Career: 58.9%
- Kotooshu
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Yokozuna and ōzeki: 44.1% (170)
- Career: 60.5%
- #20✓ Provisional · 1 sourceEast won
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Hakuho 21–9 Kotomitsuki+ 1 by fusen
Last: May 2010, won by Hakuho · kotenage
- Hakuho
- Style: Throws and twists
- Vs Yokozuna and ōzeki: 75.3% (316)
- Career: 84.8%
- Kotomitsuki
- Style: Belt and force-outs (yotsu)
- Vs Yokozuna and ōzeki: 41.4% (191)
- Career: 58%
Who can still win: eliminated when even winning every remaining bout cannot reach the leader (a tie means a playoff).
40 wrestlers out of contention · Computed from provisional results.
The tournament in numbers
Makuuchi, from the bouts we hold. Fusen counts in the record but has no technique.
- Bouts
- 295
- 3
- Distinct techniques
- 22
- 20 · 22
- Kachi-koshi · Make-koshi
- East – West
- 180 – 115
- Upsets
- 22
- Maegashira beating a san'yaku wrestler
Most used techniques
- Frontal force out (yorikiri)96 · 32.9%
- Frontal push out (oshidashi)59 · 20.2%
- Slap down (hatakikomi)28 · 9.6%
- Thrust down (tsukiotoshi)19 · 6.5%
- Rear push out (okuridashi)12 · 4.1%