Yokozuna Musashimaru might fare better with a good two-by-four than with his hefty but disabled meat cleaver when he makes his comeback at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday.

After missing all or most of the last six tournaments due to a chronic wrist injury, Musashimaru could need a miracle to regain the power he once wielded over his opponents when the 15-day meet gets under way at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.

The 32-year-old Samoan-born grand champion kicks off his campaign with a close encounter of the bizarre kind against the chest-pounding, Cheshire-catlike Takamisakari in the tourney which wraps up a year dominated by fellow-yokozuna Asashoryu.

If the komusubi is at all his excitable self, though nursing a right-shoulder injury, it could spell trouble and sudden defeat for the big Hawaiian yokozuna.