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16: Yokozuna Terunofuji withdraws on the fifth day of the January tournament after suffering a first-day loss to Wakatakakage and conceding a gold star to Tobizaru on Day 4. It is his 13th absence in 21 tournaments at sumo's highest rank. [6] Later that day, Japanese media learn through sources at the Sumo Association that Terunofuji has ...
[11] Satonofuji last performed the yumitori-shiki on 16 January 2025, the day that Terunofuji withdrew from the January 2025 tournament; the yokozuna officially retired the next day. Satonofuji told reporters he had sensed on the day of Terunofuji's withdrawal that he could be performing his last yumitori-shiki (since his stable would no longer ...
During the tournament, Shishi recorded a victory on Day 11 over Wakaikari , beating him by yorikiri, and on the same day received a comment from the former Asashōryū on his X account (formerly Twitter) encouraging him to change his sumo style, the former yokozuna considering it dangerous and likely to injure Shishi. [29]
Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' striking one another ') [1] is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
27: The Sumo Association announces that Hatsuyama will be newly promoted to the jūryō division for the January 2025 tournament. The 25-year-old graduate of Toyo University finished in the top eight in several amateur sumo tournaments, and entered professional sumo for Tamanoi stable as a sandanme tsukedashi competitor in
The sumo tournament held in Nagoya every July is scheduled to move from the older Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (Dolphins Arena) to the new IG Arena starting in 2025, [9] which the Japan Sumo Association will refer to as the Aichi International Arena.
The Sumo Association made Terunofuji's retirement official the following day, on 17 January 2025. [148] The only wrestler to occupy the highest rank in the hierarchy, Terunofuji's retirement left the sport without a grand champion for the first time since the March 1993 tournament, when Akebono was promoted to the supreme rank and occupied the ...
He was the star of a French documentary, Tu Seras Sumo, or A Normal Life: Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler, [1] released in 2013, which covered the first nine months of his sumo career in 2008. In July 2014 he made the sekitori ranks for the first time when he was promoted to the jūryō division, but he was demoted back to makushita after only two ...