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It will be the second time the Grand Sumo Tournament has been held outside Japan - and at the Royal Albert Hall. ... Simran Sohal - BBC News and Thomas Fabbri - BBC News. December 4, 2024 at 8:46 AM.
23: The Sumo Association releases the banzuke for the first grand sumo tournament of 2025, to be held in January in Tokyo's Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The tournament will see two ōzeki, Kotozakura and Hōshōryū, vying for promotion to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna.
Grand Sumo Highlights Ross T. Mihara (ロス・ミハラ ( Rosu Mihara ) ; born c. 1963 ) is an American journalist. After working in broadcasting in Hawaii, he moved to Japan in 1994 where he became an English-language sumo commentator and news anchor for NHK .
He has been a play-by-play announcer since 1999, and since 2016 he has covered sumo tournament news, including host of the program Grand Sumo Preview and color commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [1] [3] [5] He is one of a roster of English-language play-by-play announcers for sumo tournaments that air live on NHK.
He was finally recruited and attended Kashiwa High School in Chiba Prefecture, along future professional sumo wrestlers Ōshōma and Asahakuryū. [5] There, he first joined the wrestling club, saying he was afraid of sumo, [3] but in his first year he took part in a school trip and visited the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and became interested ...
Takerufuji continued his winning streak with an eighth consecutive victory over Ryūden, becoming the first newly promoted makuuchi wrestler to win that many in 13 years (since Kaisei's debut in 2011), [21] as well as the first such wrestler in modern sumo history to lead a grand sumo tournament alone at the halfway point. [22]
Japan's top-ranked sumo wrestler Hakuho has tested positive for coronavirus, the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) announced on Tuesday. Mongolian-born Hakuho, who is the longest-serving yokozuna - top ...
A honbasho (Japanese: 本場所), or Grand Sumo Tournament in English, is an official professional sumo tournament. Only honbasho results matter in determining promotion and relegation for rikishi (sumo wrestlers) on the banzuke ranking.