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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.
The first table below lists the champions since the six-tournament system was instituted in 1958. [1] The championship is determined by the wrestler with the highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day tournament. In the event of a tie a play-off is held between the wrestlers ...
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.
A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion, after ...
Sumo wrestlers ranked in the divisions below jūryō are considered to be in training and receive a small allowance instead of a salary. Jūryō wrestlers, along with their makuuchi counterparts, are the only professional sumo wrestlers who compete in a full fifteen bouts per official tournament.
Yokozuna Asahiyama: active in Osaka sumo: Ōkido Moriemon: 1899-9 1914-1 Yokozuna Minato: only yokozuna who spent his whole career in Osaka sumo: Nishinoumi Kajirō II: 1900-1 1918-5 Yokozuna Izutsu: oldest wrestler to be promoted to yokozuna in the 20th century, committed suicide later in life: Tachiyama: 1900-5 1918-1 Yokozuna Tomozuna
2013 in sumo - Sokokurai becomes the first expelled wrestler to be reinstated. 48th yokozuna Taihō dies. Miyabiyama and Baruto retire. 2012 in sumo - Baruto and Kyokutenhō win their only titles. Harumafuji is promoted to yokozuna. 2011 in sumo - A match-fixing scandal leads to the cancellation of the March basho with many resignations and ...
A makuuchi match with the 69th yokozuna Hakuhō beating Dejima as the 68th yokozuna Asashōryū watches in the background. Makuuchi (幕内), or makunouchi (幕の内), is the top division of the six divisions of professional sumo.