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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.
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.
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.
+ Four of these titles were in perfect tournaments (zenshō-yūshō) and were part of Hakuhō's second-place streak of 63 consecutive wins. † Includes a sweep of all six tournaments in 2005. Asashōryū remains the only wrestler to have won all tournaments in a six-tournament calendar year (post-1949).
It will be the second time the Grand Sumo Tournament has been held outside Japan - and at the Royal Albert Hall. Sumo Grand Tournament back in London after 34 years Skip to main content
4: The first grand sumo tournament held outside of Tokyo since March 2020 — and the first such tournament with spectators since November 2019 — begins in Nagoya. 31-year-old sekiwake Takayasu begins the basho on the sidelines with lower back pain, likely ending any chance of re-promotion to the ōzeki rank. [73] He returned to competition ...
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]