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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.
Yokozuna's next title challenger was The Undertaker, whom he was eventually forced to accept a casket match with. [2] The match occurred on January 22, 1994, at Royal Rumble , which Yokozuna won by shoving the Undertaker in the casket with help from multiple heel wrestlers.
at best rank, former college yokozuna, won a makushita and jūryō championship in the same year: Rōga 狼雅: East Maegashira 8: 2018-11 Futagoyama March 2, 1999 (age 25) Tuva: at best rank, first foreigner to claim the title of high school yokozuna, won a jonokuchi and a jonidan championship the same year: Ryūden 竜電: East Maegashira 13 ...
Azumafuji was the first yokozuna to turn to Western-style professional wrestling, in 1955.This occurred after a dispute in the Japan Sumo Association between two other elders, Takasago and Tatsunami, which he wished to escape. [1]
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.
Wakanohana was promoted to yokozuna in January 1958, shortly after he took his second tournament championship. He was the first yokozuna produced by the Nishonoseki ichimon or group of stables in over 20 years and consequently had to borrow the keshō-mawashi of the former Futabayama to perform his first yokozuna dohyō-iri or ring entering ...
Aobajō (left) and Taihō at a Yokozuna Deliberation Council keiko sōken (December 23, 2011) Taihō branched off from his old heya and opened Taihō stable in December 1971. In February 1977, at the age of 36, he suffered a stroke , and his subsequent health problems may have played a part in him being passed over for the chairmanship of the ...
Wrestlers who went on to be promoted to yokozuna are tabulated in the list of yokozuna. [2] Active wrestlers (September 2024) are indicated by italics. The number of top division yūshō (championships) won by each ōzeki is also listed. There is no requirement to win a championship before promotion, but a wrestler must usually have won around ...