Yokozuna Hoshoryu pulled out of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Saturday, its penultimate day, handing ozeki Kirishima a win by default that kept him in title contention.Back from a right hamstring injury that ruled him out of most of May's Summer meet, Hoshoryu had gone 7-6 in the 15-day tournament at IG Arena in Nagoya before deciding to withdraw for the fourth time in nine meets as a grand champion.Having risen to the exalted rank of yokozuna ahead of the Spring meet in March 2025, the 27-year-old has not been able to add to his two top-tier makuuchi-division titles.Fellow Mongolian-…READ FULL ARTICLE
