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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 ...
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.
18: Rōga withdraws for a second time after re-entering the January tournament on Day 5 and suffering two consecutive losses. [10] 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 ...
4: The NHK charity sumo tournament is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan for the first time in three years. It was cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [16] 11: The retirement ceremony for former komusubi Shōhōzan is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. [17]
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.
Spokesman Shibatayama says that the retirement ceremony for Nakamura (former sekiwake Yoshikaze) will be held as scheduled on 5 February, but additional sumo events scheduled at the Kokugikan—including the Fuji TV-sponsored Grand Sumo Tournament on 6 February and the NHK charity tournament on 11 February—are eventually cancelled. [27] [28] [29]
He had been unable to recover from a left arm injury sustained in the March 2017 tournament, which caused him to miss or withdraw from eight consecutive tournaments from May 2017 to July 2018. His record as a yokozuna was 36 wins against 35 losses, with 97 bouts missed. He is staying in sumo as a coach under the Araiso elder name. [3]
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.