2024 Aki Basho: Day 9 results and analysis

Spoilers alert.

We are deep into the second half of this basho and it’s becoming pretty clear who are gonna be the guys contesting the cup this month. If it goes the way we’re thinking there might be some fascinating fallout after the fact.

Today was a bit of a funny day on the dohyo. We had some long, back and forth, bouts (one of them especially so) and also a handful…