Record breaker Hakuho 1 win from title in Nagoya

 following the injury-enforced withdrawals of compatriot Kakuryu and Kisenosato, 

And any other wrestler not a yokozuna would be faced with demotion.

Sometimes it bothers me that yokozuna a given the opportunity to withdraw from any given tournament if they lose two or three matches and then a medical excuse is given for their absence.

If either of these yokozuna do not participate in the next tournament, or are again "forced" to to withdraw from the tournament because of an "injury", in my opinion they should be "forced" to retire.

No matter their nationality!

Yokozuna can't be demoted, instead they are forced to quit.

Yokozuna can't be demoted, instead they are forced to quit.

Just about everyone who posts here knows this, some yokozuna, should never have been promoted in the first place, but in the Sumo association's rush to promote a "Japanese" born and raised wrestler, they are now faced with having to have him retire, after only winning two tourneys.

YubaruJuly 22 09:50 pm JST

.. but in the Sumo association's rush to promote a "Japanese" born and raised wrestler, they are now faced with having to have him retire, after only winning two tourneys.

Kakuryu isn't Japanese. And they rushed him too. He's only won one tournament, the time that Hakuhou was not participating, and his performance has been pretty much a disaster since becoming a Yokozuna.

OssanAmerica: "Kakuryu isn't Japanese. And they rushed him too."

Likely for different reasons. You completely missed that.