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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]
Wrestlers who went on to be promoted to yokozuna are tabulated in the list of yokozuna. [2] Active wrestlers (September 2024) are indicated by italics. The number of top division yūshō (championships) won by each ōzeki is also listed. There is no requirement to win a championship before promotion, but a wrestler must usually have won around ...
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received yokozuna licenses from Gojo family and Yoshida family: Tsurugizan Taniemon: 1827-3 1852-2 Ōzeki Onomatsu: offered a yokozuna license but rejected it: Hidenoyama Raigorō: 1828-3 1850-3 Yokozuna Hidenoyama: shortest yokozuna ever, wrestlers outside his stable once staged a strike against his authority: Shiranui Dakuemon: 1830-11 1844-1 ...
Kōki's birth name was Ivan Boryshko. [6] He was born on the island of Sakhalin (Karafuto Prefecture) to a Japanese mother Kiyo Naya [7] and an ethnic Ukrainian father Markiyan Boryshko [7] who was born in Runivshchyna in present-day Krasnohrad Raion, Kharkiv Oblast [8] and had fled the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Kōji Kitao (Japanese: 北尾 光司, August 12, 1963 – February 10, 2019) [1] was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler, born in Mie.As Futahaguro Kōji (双羽黒 光司) he was sumo's 60th yokozuna, and the only one in sumo history not to win a top division tournament championship. [2]
Tochigiyama only lost 23 times while an active sumo wrestler in the top makuuchi division, and only eight times during his seven years as yokozuna. His top division winning percentage was 87.8. In addition, his winning percentage as yokozuna reached 93.5, the fourth best in history after Jinmaku, Tachiyama and Tanikaze. [2] [4]