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  2. Yamamotoyama Ryūta - Wikipedia

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    In June of 2021, Yamamotoyama was featured in the OFFCANNY YouTube video, we became sumo wrestlers. As of 2021, he is USA Sumo's head coach and sumo ambassador. [16] He regularly appears in commercials on US television which require a sumo wrestler. [12] He runs the Yamamoto Sumo Dojo in Los Angeles. [7] Also in 2021, he was married in the USA.

  3. List of the heaviest sumo wrestlers - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the heaviest professional sumo wrestlers. Only wrestlers weighing 200 kilograms (440 lb) or over are included. Wrestlers shown in bold are still active as of January 2023. Ōrora (left), the heaviest sumo wrestler ever, fights eighth-heaviest Kainowaka Yamamotoyama is the heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler ever ...

  4. List of yokozuna - Wikipedia

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    The Sumo Association have overseen all promotions since Chiyonoyama's in 1951. 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]

  5. List of active sumo wrestlers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of non-Japanese sumo wrestlers - Wikipedia

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    By 2013, foreign born wrestlers made up just seven percent of the 613 wrestlers active in professional sumo, yet occupied one third of the 42 spots in the top division. [7] No Japanese-born wrestler won a top division tournament between Tochiazuma in January 2006 and Kotoshōgiku in January 2016, with 56 of the 58 tournaments held in that ...

  7. Takanoyama Shuntarō - Wikipedia

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    His height of 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and weight of 90 kg (200 lb; 14 st) make him among the lightest sumo wrestlers in the modern era. In November 2008 he climbed as high as makushita 13, beating his previous high of makushita 15 set in November 2005, and he moved up to makushita 9 in January 2009.

  8. List of past sumo wrestlers - Wikipedia

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    oldest top division wrestler at the age of 52, first Miyagino stablemaster: Tanikaze Kajinosuke: 1769-4 1794-11 Yokozuna Isenoumi: streak of 63 wins held for 150 years, died while active: Onogawa Kisaburō: 1779-10 1798-10 Yokozuna Tamagaki: first yokozuna to perform dohyo-iri along with Tanikaze: Raiden Tameemon: 1790-11 1811-2 Ōzeki: Urakaze

  9. Takamiyama Daigorō - Wikipedia

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    Takamiyama Daigorō (髙見山 大五郎, born 16 June 1944 as Jesse James Wailani Kuhaulua) is an American-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. Wrestling for Takasago stable for twenty years from 1964 to 1984, his highest rank was sekiwake.