yeah, foot sweeps and kicks are sort of his signature techniques. he does go for them quite often but like i said i think he's really firing on all cylinders this tournament and he's having more success with them. the sweep on kaisei was awesome and hilarious. tokitenku ftmfw.
really exciting match between harumafuji and kakuryu. once again, harumafuji's speed at the tachi-ai is really amazing. i was surprised he was even able to push back kakuryu when he had a double outside grip, but the double inside grips for kakuryu just gave him too much control.
and man, i actually thought that kisenosato did touch the ground first in their first match, but it was close and i'm not surprised they had a rematch. it's too bad kisenosato couldn't beat hakuho to make the final days that much more exciting, but oh well. pretty cool to see history made, and hakuho certainly deserves it.
i would find it really hard not to say he's one of the greatest of all time, or even that he's the greatest. the argument would basically be that he doesn't have good enough competition, but i think that's quite hard to judge and i think hakuho's dominance makes everyone competing in his shadow look worse than they really are.
i don't know, it's hard to say and in a sport with as much history as sumo's you can analyze this stuff to death, but i would say he's the best ever.
