Grand Sumo Breakdown
This is Grand Sumo Breakdown, a sports talk show about professional sumo. Keep an eye out for our main episodes where we preview and recap each tournament and bonus episodes on other topics specific to sumo. Feel free to contact us through social media or email us at grandsumobreakdown@gmail.com.
Episodes
Well let's get this over with. Not a great year for predicting banzukes. See if you can guess Ryan's heartrate as we go through this disaster.
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Ryan walks Jake through his guesses for July tournament rankings and we even get some fun extra math at the end.
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Lots of yokozuna news: one on the way up, one on the way out. Join us for our thoughts on Onosato, Hakuho, and the rest of the off-the-dohyo news for the month.
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Well that sure was fun. Welcome to the future, sumo fans!
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*SPOILERS THRU DAY 8*
Join us to break down week one of the May Basho, where our leaderboard is about as fun as we could have possibly asked for.
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Mak has a bad time while you have a good time. Also we revive our segment on GSB earning a sumo black belt.
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Oof.
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Not a super busy month, but we cover the basics of what's been going on between the Haru and Natsu bashos.
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It's that time once again! Join Ryan and Jake as Ryan attempts to divine how the Natsu Banzuke will shake out based on the results of the Haru Basho.
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Haru was a roller coaster, join GSB to try to make sense of what's next.
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*SPOILERS THRU DAY 8*
Ryan and Mak's sheer audacity to have personal lives has led them to being unavailable this week, so Flyric and Jake are joined by two guests from our friends at Honu Sumo to discuss week 1 of the Haru Basho.
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Join GSB to discuss the first basho for the 74th Yokozuna, Hoshoryu! We also begin our quest to cover all the vocab on the path to earning a sumo black belt, this episodes vocab words are:
- Chugoshi
- Shiko
- Koshiwari
- Shinkyaku
- Suriashi
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Ryan absolutely nails the prediction for the yokozuna rank. Really good stuff, high level knowledge.
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First update to the top rank in over 3 years?! How will this massive news affect the rest of the banzuke? Actually not too much, but it's still neat.
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New Yokozuna! There's some other news too, I guess.
Did anything consequential happen this basho? Anything? Anything at all? Certainly no huge news is coming out right about now, right?
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SPOILERS THRU DAY 8
Way too much to pack in today so let's get right to it, all the way from the elephant in the room down to who might actually still be in the running.
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Hope everyone ate like a sumo wrestler over the holidays! Welcome back to a new year of sumo, let's get down to discussing the exciting potential at the top of the rankings and help Mak explore his inner hater.
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A new sumo year is upon us, and with it, the changing of the guard. Join the boys as a new start to the show is introduced in glorious fashion and see how they prognosticate on 2025. How many Yokozuna will there be? How many Ozeki? Do you agree with what the guys think will happen?
A belated look at the rankings going into the first pro sumo tournament of the new year.
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