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1: The Sumo Association releases the banzuke for the July grand sumo tournament, which is scheduled to be the final Nagoya tournament held in the current Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (Dolphins Arena) before it moves to the new Aichi International Arena in 2025.
Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current January/Hatsu 2025 banzuke, by clicking the 'Current rank' sorting button.; The East side of the banzuke is regarded as more prestigious than the West side and those ranked on the East will generally have had a slightly better record in the previous tournament than those with the same rank on the West.
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.
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.
It will be the second time the Grand Sumo Tournament has been held outside Japan - and at the Royal Albert Hall.
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.
Takerufuji continued his winning streak with an eighth consecutive victory over Ryūden, becoming the first newly promoted makuuchi wrestler to win that many in 13 years (since Kaisei's debut in 2011), [21] as well as the first such wrestler in modern sumo history to lead a grand sumo tournament alone at the halfway point. [22]
11: The Japan Sumo Association announces that 2,955 envelopes of prize money (called kenshō-kin) will be distributed to winning wrestlers at the upcoming January grand sumo tournament, setting an all-time record. [2]