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Three are promoted for the first time. One is 23-year-old Kusano , a former Nihon University student who is a National Student Sumo champion and subsequent makushita tsukedashi entrant into the sport. The others are 21-year-olds Wakanoshō and Ōtsuji , both of whom had placed third in the National Junior High School Sumo championships.
The event was held at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.. Since 1992, the Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) has held an annual show on January 4 at the Tokyo Dome, a professional baseball stadium in Tokyo, Japan; since 2007, the event has been known as Wrestle Kingdom, and has since become the largest professional wrestling event in Japan. [2]
The Budokan was a popular venue for Japanese professional wrestling for a time, ... 1986; "Live in Tokyo" [10] Judas Priest; ... 2025; LiVE is Smile Always～RiP ...
In the Edo period, the locations of sumo tournaments and the rikishi (sumo wrestlers) who competed in them varied. Sumo was particularly popular in the cities of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka; with tournaments held twice a year in Edo, and once a year in both Kyoto and Osaka. The tournaments lasted 10 days each.
Rishikis from Japan's Sumo Kyokai, Daisuke Kitanowaka, right, and Akira Fukutsuumi pose for a photo call outside of London's Royal Albert Hall in London, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 where the UK's ...
Top-tier sumo wrestling will make a rare appearance in London for the first time in three decades – and for the second time ever outside of Japan in the sport’s 1,500-year history.
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.
23: The Sumo Association releases the banzuke for the first grand sumo tournament of 2025, to be held in January in Tokyo's Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The tournament will see two ōzeki, Kotozakura and Hōshōryū, vying for promotion to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna.