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A sumo wrestler from Ukraine is one of three new promotions by the Sumo Association to the second-highest jūryō division for the November 2024 tournament. 20-year-old Aonishiki, a third-place finisher in the 2019 World Junior Sumo Championships, moved to Japan in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the six tournaments since his ...
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.
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 ...
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.
It will be the second time the Grand Sumo Tournament has been held outside Japan - and at the Royal Albert Hall.
The Sumo World Championships is an amateur sumo competition organized by the International Sumo Federation.The men's competition started in 1992 and the women's competition started in 2001, with both competitions having been held together.
The term honbasho means "main (or real) tournament" and is used to distinguish these tournaments from unofficial tournaments which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking.
4: The first grand sumo tournament held outside of Tokyo since March 2020 — and the first such tournament with spectators since November 2019 — begins in Nagoya. 31-year-old sekiwake Takayasu begins the basho on the sidelines with lower back pain, likely ending any chance of re-promotion to the ōzeki rank. [73] He returned to competition ...