Yokozuna Takanohana looked back to his devastating best on Tuesday as he mugged Shimotori to notch his second win of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament.
Takanohana, who suffered the ignominy of going down to rank-and-filer Kyokutenho on Monday, needed only a matter of seconds to dispose of the winless second-ranked maegashira, sending a fiercely partisan crowd at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan into raptures.
Takanohana, on the comeback trail after missing seven straight tournaments with a knee injury, appeared to have regained the confidence he lacked 24 hours earlier as he quickly locked on to Shimotori's belt before gobbling him up like a Venus flytrap.