Kakuryu against Asanoyama, Aki 2019, day 5

KakuryuYokozuna 1 East4-1
Finalyorikirifrontal force out Gold star
AsanoyamaMaegashira 2 West3-2

Aki 2019, day 5, 12 September 2019. Makuuchi, bout 20 of 20. East on the left, west on the right.

How it was won: yorikiri

Who else uses it

Frontal force out.

The winner holds his opponent's belt and forces him out of the ring from the front.

A gold star

More on kinboshi

A kinboshi, or gold star, is a maegashira's win over a yokozuna. Sanyaku wrestlers don't earn one for beating a yokozuna, and neither does a win by default or disqualification. Under the association's older pay rules, each kinboshi added to the bonus a wrestler was paid every tournament, for as long as he stayed a sekitori.

Win chances

Before the boutHow the ratings work
73% KakuryuAsanoyama 27%

An upset by the ratings: Asanoyama won with a 27% chance. These are the site's own ratings as the basho began, not a bookmaker's odds.

Head to head

4 official meetingsCompare careers
Kakuryu 2Asanoyama 2
  1. Kakuryu won · Haru 2020, day 14shitatenage
  2. Asanoyama won · Kyushu 2019, day 1Default
  3. Asanoyama won · Aki 2019, day 5 (this bout)yorikiri
  4. Kakuryu won · Nagoya 2019, day 3katasukashi