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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.
Toggle Most top division championships subsection. 1.1 Most career championships. 1.2 Most undefeated championships. ... List of sumo tournament top 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.
Four-time komusubi, jūryō champion, equalled second-fastest rise to top division since 1958: Hōshōryū 豊昇龍: West Ōzeki 1 2017-11 Tatsunami May 22, 1999 (age 25) Ulaanbaatar: Sixth Mongolian to be promoted to sumo's highest rank, known for throwing and tripping techniques, the nephew of Asashōryū. Ichiyamamoto 一山本
The following is a list of year in sumo articles listed in chronological order from the most recent. Each gives an overview of the happenings in sumo for each year listed. The highlights below refer only to top division championships.
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 ...
three-time sekiwake, was last remaining member of first wave of Mongolians to enter sumo, oldest top division championship holder in the history of modern sumo, holds the record for the most top division bouts of all time: Kyokutenzan: 1992-3 2007-11 Makushita 13 Ōshima: achieved only minor success, suspected of being involved in match-fixing ...