Fighting fit and ready to rumble, newly promoted ozeki Takayasu takes center stage when the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament gets underway on Sunday.Takayasu took a hammering by yokozuna Kisenosato earlier in the week during practice bouts, but the ozeki insists he is in top shape ahead of his opening match against second-ranked maegashira Hokutofuji.Takayasu, the first new ozeki since Mongolian Terunofuji was promoted for the Nagoya meet in 2015, lost all 10 of his bouts against Tagonoura stablemate Kisenosato on Wednesday."The yokozuna (Kisenosato) delivered some hard hits and I could not sho…READ FULL ARTICLE
