It's totally fine to disagree. I just don't think you are making an attempt to understand the argument. The standards are different by sport and even further differentiated by rank. The Jones comparison is to give you relative context.
I agree, Hakuho is doing amazing things for sumo outside of competition. I was talking more so the celebrations and whatnot.
There have absolutely been talks of Takakeisho not having "ozeki" sumo because of his reliance on tsuppari attacks and blasting tachiais. It goes beyond Hakuho, Hakuho is just held to a higher standard that goes beyond his ethnicity, which does play at least a small factor.
yeah the whole thing with the pusher thrusters is another whole can of worms, and I get it. It makes sense, I love keisho but you expect an ozeki to actually know how to grapple a little bit. Even then one can’t help but love how much fun it is to watch him compete. I was really bummed to see him go out in July.
not sure he would have made much of a difference but it would have been nice. At the very least shodai would have probably not made KK. Or who knows, you never know with shodai, dude sucked but was very close to beating teru.