Report Card: 2024 Aki Basho - Part 1

Let's grade some rikishi.

The 2024 Aki Basho is but a fond memory now (a very fond one thanks to all the action packed bouts it served up). So it’s time for me to release some grades and breakdown how I think everyone in the makuuchi performed over those fifteen days in September.

I’m going to try and keep these brief (let’s see how that goes).

Also, some ‘behind the curtain’ talk…