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Two consecutive tournament championships or an "equivalent performance" at ōzeki level are the minimum requirement for promotion to yokozuna in modern sumo. The longest serving yokozuna ever was Hakuhō, who was promoted in 2007 and retired in 2021. [1] The number of top division championships won by each yokozuna is also listed.
He was the longest-serving yokozuna of all-time, having surpassed Haguroyama's record in 2019, and fought his 1000th bout as a yokozuna in July 2020. He acquired Japanese citizenship in 2019. Hakuhō retired from professional sumo at the end of September 2021, closing out a 20-year career in the sport. [6]
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.
The list includes yokozuna and ōzeki (the highest rank before the yokozuna rank was introduced), but excludes so-called kanban or "guest ōzeki" (usually big men drawn from local crowds to promote a tournament who would never appear on the banzuke again) and wrestlers for which insufficient data is available.
Yokozuna Ikazuchi: died at 83, longest-lived yokozuna after retirement, helped build first Ryōgoku Kokugikan: Nishinoumi Kajirō I: 1882-1 1896-1 Yokozuna Takasago: first wrestler actually listed on banzuke at the rank of yokozuna: Konishiki Yasokichi I: 1883-5 1901-1 Yokozuna Takasago: although competitive, never won a championship as yokozuna
In 1988, he went on a winning streak of 53 bouts, [5] the third longest in sumo history, second to yokozuna Hakuhō's 63, and Futabayama's all-time record of 69. The sequence began on the 7th day of the May 1988 tournament with victory over Hananoumi and continued through the July and September 1988 tournaments, ending only on the final day of ...
Since 1927, the longest-serving ōzeki of modern times have been Kaiō and Chiyotaikai who each held the rank for 65 tournaments. With five wins, Kaiō also holds the record for yūshō won in the modern era by a wrestler to never reach the rank of yokozuna .
He held the second highest rank of ōzeki or champion for eleven years from 2000 to 2011, and is the longest-serving ōzeki of all time in terms of number of tournaments fought. In his career, Kaiō won five top division yūshō or tournament championships, the last coming in 2004.