 His "oyakata" declared that he would be happy with just one more "yūshō" before Mienoumi's retirement.In the event, Mienoumi won his second and third tournaments as "yokozuna", the latter with a perfect score, but after this had several absences due to injury and illness, fighting a full fifteen bouts in only four tournaments as "yokozuna", before retiring in November 1980.He has the lowest win-loss ratio of any post-war "yokozuna".