Report Card: 2025 Hatsu Basho - Part 1

Let's grade some wrestlers!

It’s been too long.

I was forced into a break from sumo writing due to my household contracting a number of bugs over the last few weeks. Kindergarten years are really brutal, huh? My kid was home for most of three weeks with what we think was RSV. She’s doing great now, though.

And now I can finally get down to grading some rikishi from our historic 202…