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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 ...
All sumo wrestlers are classified in a ranking hierarchy (banzuke), which is updated after each tournament based on the wrestlers' performance. Wrestlers with more wins than losses go up while those with negative records are demoted. The top division is Makuuchi and the second division is Juryo. At the pinnacle of sumo hierarchy is yokozuna.
Promotions are announced for gyōji (sumo referees) effective 25 December, the date that the January 2024 banzuke will be published. The current 41st Shikimori Inosuke, Hideki Imaoka, will be promoted to become the 38th Kimura Shōnosuke, marking the first time in 8 1 ⁄ 2 years that the upper of the two tate-gyōji ranks will be used.
Takerufuji Mikiya (尊富士 弥輝也), born April 9, 1999, as Mikiya Ishioka (石岡 弥輝也, Ishioka Mikiya) is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kanagi, Aomori Prefecture (now Goshogawara).
A pictorial banzuke from the April 1788 basho. A banzuke for onsen (諸国温泉効能鑑, Shokoku onsen kōnō-kan), issued February 1851 (Kaei 4). The rankings on the banzuke are decided by an assembly composed of 20 sumo judges and three supervisors who gather a few days after each official tournament. The assembly assigns ranks to over 600 ...
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.
The Japan Sumo Association announces the suspension of Kimura Kankurō, a jūryō-ranked gyōji, for the March tournament and a pay cut after he was found to be the perpetrator of a physical assault on one of his apprentices at the November 2024 tournament.
Following the September 2024 tournament, with demotion out of salaried status appearing likely, Aoiyama retired from professional competition. [16] At his retirement press conference Aoiyama said he was glad he became a sumo wrestler, adding that his most memorable professional bout was against then- ōzeki Kotoshōgiku in July 2012.