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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 ...
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.
The term honbasho means "main (or real) tournament" and is used to distinguish these tournaments from unofficial tournaments which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking.
Top-tier sumo wrestling will make a rare appearance in London for the first time in three decades – and for the second time ever outside of Japan in the sport’s 1,500-year history.
Still an active wrestler, he has the longest streak of consecutive matches in sumo recorded history, setting the all-time consecutive match appearance record in his 1,631st consecutive match on 10 September 2024, during that month's grand sumo tournament in Tokyo. [2] At 40, he is also the oldest active makuuchi wrestler.
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 ...
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.
Recognised as a wrestler of great potential, he stood out in 2024 by earning promotion straight into sumo's top division after just one tournament in the second-highest jūryō division. In March 2024 he became the first wrestler in 110 years to win the championship in his inaugural top division tournament.