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Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current March/Haru 2025 banzuke, by clicking the 'Current rank' sorting button.; The East side of the banzuke is regarded as more prestigious than the West side and those ranked on the East will generally have had a slightly better record in the previous tournament than those with the same rank on the West.
Sumo wrestlers ranked in the divisions below jūryō are considered to be in training and receive a small allowance instead of a salary. Jūryō wrestlers, along with their makuuchi counterparts, are the only professional sumo wrestlers who compete in a full fifteen bouts per official tournament.
The Emperor's Cup has been awarded to the winner of top division tournaments since 1925. This is a list of wrestlers who have won the top division (makuuchi) championship in professional sumo since 1909, when the current championship system was established.
It is the fourth highest rank in sumo wrestling and is the lowest of the so-called titleholder ranks, or san'yaku. At komusubi , achieving a kachi-koshi (winning record in a tournament) is not sufficient to guarantee promotion to a higher rank.
A pictorial banzuke from the April 1788 basho. A banzuke for onsen (諸国温泉効能鑑, Shokoku onsen kōnō-kan), issued February 1851 (Kaei 4).. The rankings on the banzuke are decided by an assembly composed of 20 sumo judges and three supervisors who gather a few days after each official tournament.
The Sumo Association have overseen all promotions since Chiyonoyama's in 1951. Two consecutive tournament championships or an "equivalent performance" at ōzeki level are the minimum requirement for promotion to yokozuna in modern sumo. The longest serving yokozuna ever was Hakuhō, who was promoted in 2007 and retired in 2021. [1]
53 sumo wrestlers have reached the second highest in the sport, the rank of ōzeki, but have failed to rise to the top rank since the modern era of sumo began in 1927 with the merger of the Tokyo and Osaka organizations.
The following articles contain lists of sumo wrestlers: List of active sumo wrestlers; List of heaviest sumo wrestlers; List of komusubi; List of ōzeki; List of non-Japanese sumo wrestlers; List of past sumo wrestlers; List of sekiwake; List of sumo elders; List of sumo record holders; List of yokozuna