F2! F2! F2! Rather a strange way to start an article on the recently completed Natsu Basho but as the dust continues to settle and as sumo fans around the world slowly adjust to life after the tournament, I for one believe the man with the Emperor's Cup now sat proudly on his sideboard is increasingly likely to be compared to one of the sport's most legendary of yokozuna from decades past.
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| Ladies and gentlemen, Hakuho has left the building. |
The yokozuna in question is NOT however, the star of the 1960s, the now retired Taiho. A great, perhaps the greatest ever, but not the man I see reborn in Hakuho. The yokozuna of lore these eyes see walking down the hanamichi or preparing for battle atop the dohyo each time 'Munkhbat Davaajargal' performs is the 35th yokozuna -- Futabayama Sadaji (1912-1968) -- the 'F' in F2.
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