One obvious difficulty with assessing the first three days of any Grand Sumo Tournament is that the sample size is too small to conclude much beyond “rikishi A looks good, and rikishi B doesn’t.”
A hot start puts a wrestler on the front foot, of course, but with four-fifths of a basho remaining most outcomes are still possible.
Kotozakura, Fujiseiun and Asakoryu, for example, all started the September meet 3-0 but finished 9-6, while Takanosho followed up his 3-0 start the same month with 8 losses in the following 9 bouts before withdrawing from the tournament.
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