More anecdotes..

[Moti Dichne]

Getting nearly crushed but having enough luck to save you is a wonderous thing. Luck follows those who are lucky enough to have it, all the way to the end. For a rikishi, the greatest stroke of luck is, of course, winning. In the Aki Basho of 2016, Ozeki Goueidou (now Takekuma Oyakata) seized this stroke of luck and won the yusho undefeated for 15 days straight. This commendable feat excited the whole of Japan. On October 28th, after that basho, the Aki jungyo was held in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. After asageiko and chanko, our hero Goueidou was taking a nap, lying face down in the dressing room. As he was on jungyo, the dressing room was of course temporary, with a metal locker about two meters high used as a separating wall.  Suddenly, a young rikishi on the other side bumped into the locker and it fell over towards Goueidou, who was lying down. This was bad news. "Oh, look out, it's dangerous!" shouted the people around him, waking him up.  With his superb reflexes, he quickly shifted his head to the side, and only his left arm was crushed underneath. Thanks to this, although he suffered a slight scrape on his arm, it was not serious, and Goueidou once again demonstrated his strong luck. Looking at the upturned locker kicking up dust, he said with a sigh of relief, "That was really close. I nearly died." But had he used up all his luck already? Goueidou's dream of winning the yusho again at the next Kyushu basho ended in failure, with a record of 9-6.