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Yokozuna knocked Duggan to the floor and nailed him with a leg drop, then rolled his unconscious body back into the ring as payback for the earlier attack. [ 19 ] At WrestleMania IX on April 4, Yokozuna wrestled against Bret Hart for the WWF Championship .
The great yokozuna Taihō achieved the feat of six consecutive tournament victories twice, but never in a calendar year. [25] Asashōryū lost only six bouts all year (0–1–0–2–2–1). One of those rare losses came on 11 September 2005, at the start of the September tournament when he dropped his first Day 1 bout during his tenure as ...
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.
Kisenosato accepted, formally becoming the 72nd yokozuna. [38] He was the first wrestler of Japanese descent to be promoted to yokozuna since Wakanohana in 1998. [39] As is the tradition for a new yokozuna, he performed his first yokozuna dohyō-iri, or ring-entering ceremony, on January 27 at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. [40]
[29] [30] The chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, former yokozuna Hokutoumi who was a stablemate and protégé of Chiyonofuji, was too grief-stricken to speak to the press in the immediate aftermath of Chiyonofuji's death. [28] His former stablemaster, ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji, said that he was "blessed with a wonderful disciple."
Chiyonoyama Masanobu (Japanese: 千代の山 雅信, June 2, 1926 – October 29, 1977) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima, Hokkaidō.He was the sport's 41st yokozuna from 1951 until 1959.
Onogawa Kisaburō (Japanese: 小野川喜三郎, 1758 – April 30, 1806) was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Ōtsu, Ōmi Province (now Shiga Prefecture).He was the sport's 5th yokozuna.
He secured promotion to yokozuna just three tournaments after that. At 21 years 2 months, he was the youngest ever yokozuna , [ 2 ] beating the previous record held by Taihō by one month. Kitanoumi was the most successful wrestler in sumo for the rest of the 1970s.