Enho Wins With a 0.1% Okurinage to Go 2-0; Tomokaze Falls to 0-2
Juryo 10 Enho (Isegahama), who announced his marriage before the basho, went 2-0 on Kyushu Day 2 by okurinage over Juryo 11 Tomokaze (Nakamura), per ABEMA TIMES. Enho, 167 cm and 107 kg, faced the 185-cm, 173-kg Tomokaze; both were born in 1994. After the two traded slap-like moves at the tachi-ai and Enho withstood Tomokaze's thrusting barrage, he got inside and threw him with the okurinage.
ABEMA notes the JSA's official site puts okurinage at only 0.1 percent of bouts. The hall applauded, and fans wrote 'How do you even do that sumo?', 'A strategist' and 'He's good at sumo.' Enho is aiming for a return to makuuchi for the first time since the 2020 Nov basho; Tomokaze is 0-2.