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2: The Sumo Association announces that tickets for all 90 grand tournament days in 2024 have sold out. It is the first complete sellout of all six sumo tournaments in one year since 1996. [134] 8: Yokozuna Terunofuji pulls out of the November 2024 tournament. It is reported that Terunofuji continues to have health issues, and was unable to ...
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.
16: Yokozuna Terunofuji withdraws on the fifth day of the January tournament after suffering a first-day loss to Wakatakakage and conceding a gold star to Tobizaru on Day 4. It is his 13th absence in 21 tournaments at sumo's highest rank. [6] Later that day, Japanese media learn through sources at the Sumo Association that Terunofuji has ...
The Royal Albert Hall will be transformed into a "temple of sumo" as it is set to host the Grand Sumo Tournament for the second time. Next October, more than 40 of Japan's elite rikishi ...
28: The Sumo Association releases the banzuke for the upcoming autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. Three wrestlers are listed at the second-highest rank of ōzeki: Mongolian Hōshōryū will compete in his first tournament at the ōzeki rank, while Takakeishō and Kirishima both hope to secure a winning record and avoid relegation.
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.
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.
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]