Miyabiyama Tetsushi most short-lived "ōzeki" on record (not counting wrestlers who have quickly been promoted to "yokozuna"). Miyabiyama sat out the two tournaments following his demotion with an injury, and so had to start all over again from the "maegashira" ranks. In January 2003 he looked to have earned his first ever "kinboshi" or gold star and to have defeated "yokozuna" Takanohana for the first time in eleven attempts with a rare counter-attacking "nichonage" throw but although the referee declared him the winner the judges ordered a rematch, which he lost. (The Sumo Association was inundated with calls of protest from the
Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall his Chaos stablemate Shinsuke Nakamura. Tanahashi went on to defeat Nakamura in the finals to win the tournament. During the final day of the tournament, Styles pinned Okada in a six-man tag team match, setting up an IWGP Heavyweight Championship rematch between the two, which was eventually announced for October's King of Pro-Wrestling. After winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall, Kushida went on to defeat Ricochet on August 16 to make his first successful title defense. The same day, reDRagon defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for