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On the following day–the first day of the tournament–244 prize money envelopes are distributed, establishing a single-day record. [3] Among the sponsor banners paraded during the tournament are those promoting the future Major League Baseball Tokyo Series games, featuring photos of Shohei Ohtani and other Japanese baseball players. [4]
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.
The sumo tournament held in Nagoya every July is scheduled to move from the older Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (Dolphins Arena) to the new IG Arena starting in 2025, [9] which the Japan Sumo Association will refer to as the Aichi International Arena.
Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current January/Hatsu 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.
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.
Top-tier sumo wrestling will make a rare appearance in London for the first time in three decades – and for the second time ever outside of Japan in the sport’s 1,500-year history.
In the next two tournaments Kinbōzan conceded 22 defeats, subsequently resulting in his demotion from the top division to jūryō. [16] At the November tournament, however, he won his third professional title, taking the jūryō championship with 13 wins. The November performance put him back at the top division in January 2025 as West ...
It will be the second time the Grand Sumo Tournament has been held outside Japan - and at the Royal Albert Hall.