Fujiseiun, Up 3 kg, Beats Sekiwake Fujinokawa
West Maegashira 2 Fujiseiun, 28 (Fujishima), the Kumamoto native, beat sekiwake Fujinokawa, 21 (Isenoumi), by yorikiri on Day 1. He absorbed Fujinokawa's nodowa and kept moving forward rather than letting his opponent create space. 'I was able to stop his momentum at the tachi-ai and stay with him. If he gets distance, the bout flows his way,' he told Nikkan Sports.
He said he had added 3 kg before the basho because 'if you're going to wrestle up top, you have to be bigger or you can't win.' Asked about the Kyushu crowd, he laughed and said, modestly, 'To be honest, I think the cheering was louder for him.'
Source: Yahoo! Japan Sports