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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.
The table below lists the runners up in the top makuuchi division at official sumo tournaments or honbasho since the six tournaments per year system was instituted in 1958. The runner up is determined by the wrestler(s) with the second highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day ...
Last Highest rank 1 Kaiō ... 42: March 2003: ... List of sumo tournament top division champions; List of sumo tournament second division champions;
Makuuchi (幕内), or makunouchi (幕の内), is the top division. It is fixed at 42 wrestlers who are ranked according to their performance in previous tournaments. At the top of the division are the four ranks of "titleholders", or "champions" called the san'yaku, comprising yokozuna, ōzeki, sekiwake and komusubi.
Makuuchi (幕内), or makunouchi (幕の内), is the top division of the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers ( rikishi ), ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous tournaments.
The komusubi ranks see the return of former ōzeki Shōdai, who returns to san'yaku after eight tournaments, and former sekiwake Wakamotoharu, who was last ranked above maegashira in May of this year. 27-year-old Shishi, who entered professional sumo in 2020, becomes the first Ukrainian-born wrestler to be promoted to the top division.
The prize money for a top makuuchi division championship is currently 10 million yen, while for the lowest jonokuchi division the prize is 100,000 yen. A runner-up is referred to as a jun-yūshō. Perhaps surprisingly, considering that most of the interest in tournaments today revolves around who will win the yūshō , the concept of a prize ...
Takamiyama becomes first foreign born top division champion. 1971 in sumo - Kitanofuji and Tamanoumi II again vie for dominance with 3 and 2 yusho respectively, while an ageing Taihō wins his last title and retires. Tamanoumi dies suddenly in October after a delayed appendectomy.