Sandanme Puns

According to Wikipedia, "All wrestlers, apart from those who have had successful amateur careers and are given special dispensation to enter makushita or sandanme directly, start in this division. In addition to the new wrestlers the division tends to consist of other recent recruits to sumo wrestling as well as some older wrestlers who have fallen to the bottom of the ranks due to prolonged injury." I could not find anything about this at all from my googling. Professional sumo divisions - Wikipedia

Does anyone know of any sumo wrestlers to have been given rank for prior wrestling experience outside of sumo? I don't know any foreigners including Mongolians given higher rank from the start at sumo.

Day of the tournament I’ve noticed on the official grand sumo app that scores stop being reported live somewhere in lower Sandanme and begin updating again around mid makushita. Anyone have any idea why this is?

New to sumo, it's been really fun to learn about the sport. I've been watching the tournament, really enjoying Tochinoshin, Enho, & the Yokozunas. When I tune in early, which divisions are the early matches before the crowd really fills in? Are there any up & comers I should know about?

I do see cameramen coming in for a few of the matches here and there, thanks for reading!

Very pleased to see Ura win the Sandanme title this bansho. Another step on the long road back to the top division. Next stop Makushita - hopefully back in Juryo in mid 2019.

Pardon my ignorance, but with Ura coming back I was looking down at the Sandanme match results, and noticed that they don't seem to have a match every day. Can someone explain how they are set up? How many matches do they get over the 15 day basho? Thanks!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

Before we really get into the story, it's important that you have some background information on how Sumo works in order to fully appreciate the magnitude of the events detailed here.

Sumo wrestling's ranking system is very different to the ones in sports more popular in the west. As opposed having seasons where teams/sportspeople compete several times a year leading up to one big championship match, Sumo wrestlers compete in six tournaments (known as bashos) throughout the year. There isn't one big "grand championship" event at the end of the year; instead, sumo places emphasis on ranks.

All new entrees in sumo (except for those with successful amateur and collegiate careers) start in the lowest division, jonokuchi. From there they climb up (or go down) the ranks within the division until they reach the next division, jonidan. Then comes sandamne, makushita, juryo, and then finally, makuuchi. This is where things start to get really interesting.

Wrestlers (or rikishi) in makuuchi are further split into maegashira and san'yaku. Like in the lower divisions, rikishi in maegashira are ranked in order based on performance (maegashira #1, #2 #3 etc.), while rikishi in san'yaku are given unranked titles. They are, in order of greatness, komusubi, sekiwake, ōzeki, and yokozuna. While promotions to all the other titles are largely based on performance like in the lower ranks, promotion to yokozuna is seen as extra special. Gettting to yokozuna is considered to be exceptionally difficult; throughout the centuries the rank has existed for, only 73 rikishi have ever been promoted to yokozuna. They are the elite of the elite's elite.

Because of this distinction, promotion to yokozuna works differently than promotion to the other ranks. Instead of simply being based on the rikishi's win-loss record, promotion to yokozuna is decided by the Yokozuna Deliberation Council (hereby referred to as the YDC), a body of fifteen people from outside of professional sumo who meet after every basho to consider potential candidates from promotion to yokozuna. While there is no explicitly set criteria for the YDC to nominate someone for yokozuna promotion, the most common is winning two consecutive basho at ozeki, although rikishi may be promoted based on equivalent performance. Essentially the criteria for promotion to yokozuna is "does the YDC think you deserve promotion?"

Alright, now with that out of the way, we can get into the meat of the post.

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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

" Within the world of professional sumo, rikishi is used as a catch-all term for wrestlers who are in the lower, un-salaried divisions of jonokuchi, jonidan, sandanme and makushita. The more prestigious term sekitori refers to wrestlers who have risen to the two highest divisions of jūryō and makuuchi and who have significantly more status, privilege and salary than their lower-division counterparts. "

" in popular use, the term rikishi can mean any sumo wrestler and be an alternative term to sumotori (sumo practitioner) or the more colloquial sumosan. The two kanji characters that make up the word rikishi are "strength/power" and "gentleman/samurai"; consequently, and more idiomatically, the term can be defined as "a gentleman of strength". "

Sumosan - colloquial sumo practitioner.

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So when talking about the wrestlers in the upper division, should we use sekitori instead of rikishi?

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)