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A sumo wrestler from Ukraine is one of three new promotions by the Sumo Association to the second-highest jūryō division for the November 2024 tournament. 20-year-old Aonishiki, a third-place finisher in the 2019 World Junior Sumo Championships, moved to Japan in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the six tournaments since his ...
The term honbasho means "main (or real) tournament" and is used to distinguish these tournaments from unofficial tournaments which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking.
18: Rōga withdraws for a second time after re-entering the January tournament on Day 5 and suffering two consecutive losses. [11] 19: The Sumo Association announces that it will hold a sumo exhibition in the Accor Arena of Paris in June 2026, following the announcement of a 2025 London tour. The Sumo Association will be returning to Paris for ...
With the release of the 2025 tournament schedule, the Sumo Association announces that the annual Nagoya tournament will move from the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium to the under-construction Aichi International Arena in July 2025. [54] 3: The retirement ceremony of the 71st yokozuna Kakuryū is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan.
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 World Championships is an amateur sumo competition organized by the International Sumo Federation.The men's competition started in 1992 and the women's competition started in 2001, with both competitions having been held together.
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.
28: The Sumo Association announces that Rōga and Tsushimanada will be the two sumo wrestlers promoted to the second-highest jūryō division for the November tournament. Rōga is the first sumo wrestler from Russia to be newly promoted to jūryō since Amūru in 2012, and becomes the first sekitori for Futagoyama stable since its establishment ...