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This is a list of all sumo wrestlers who have reached the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. It was not recorded on the banzuke until 1890 and was not officially recognised as sumo's highest rank until 1909. Until then, yokozuna was merely a licence given to certain ōzeki to perform the dohyō-iri ceremony.
The list includes yokozuna and ōzeki (the highest rank before the yokozuna rank was introduced), but excludes so-called kanban or "guest ōzeki" (usually big men drawn from local crowds to promote a tournament who would never appear on the banzuke again) and wrestlers for which insufficient data is available.
Asashōryū nominally shared the yokozuna rank with Musashimaru, but in fact his rival only fought a handful of bouts in 2003 due to injury. [19] The two did not meet in competition all year. Asashōryū won his first championship as a yokozuna in May 2003 and came back from an injury sustained in the July tournament to win his third title of ...
At sekiwake rank in November 1960 he won the first of his former record 32 tournament championships and earned promotion to ōzeki. Following two consecutive tournament victories (his second and third) he became a yokozuna in September 1961, less than two years after his top division
Ishioka was given the shikona, or ring name, Takerufuji (尊富士) with a kanji to denote a person of high status which is also a kanji in the name of the hero Yamato Takeru, [11] with the hope that it will reach a high rank, combined with the kanji -fuji from the stablemaster's own name (Asahifuji). [2]
After reaching the rank of ōzeki in 1994 his progress seemed to stall, but in 1999 he became only the second foreign-born wrestler in history to reach the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. Musashimaru won over 700 top division bouts and took twelve top division tournament championships during his career.
Category: Yokozuna. 12 languages. ... Sumo wrestlers who have achieved the top rank of yokozuna. Pages in category "Yokozuna" The following 74 pages are in this ...
Fighting at the rank of sekiwake at the January 2022 tournament, Mitakeumi won his third top-division yūshō with a 13–2 record. Mitakeumi defeated yokozuna Terunofuji on the final day to secure the championship. He said afterwards, "I was worried at one point about whether I could hold up mentally, but I was able to take the pressure."
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