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Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' striking one another ') [1] is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
The first table below lists the champions since the six-tournament system was instituted in 1958. [1] The championship is determined by the wrestler with the highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day tournament.
Women's Sumo featured as subject of the Season 4 Episode 3 of ''Time Scoop Hunter'' , a documentary drama-style historical cultural program broadcast on NHK General TV. Women's Sumo is the subject of the manga Rikijo (りきじょ), written and illustrated by Utamaro and published in Gekkan Action between 2013 and 2015.
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 ...
The Sumo Association announces it plans to increase the daily spectator limit for the May ... time at sumo's second-highest rank ... matches. It is the first time in ...
The Sumo Association will be returning to Paris for the third time in its history, a first since 1995. [12] On Day 8 of the January tournament, maegashira Kitanowaka loses his match after getting his right foot trapped on the straw bales as he retreats from the attack of Takerufuji.
Winning all seven matches in a tournament grants an unconditional advance to the jūryō division if one is ranked within the top thirty wrestlers of the division. For any other member of the division, a 7–0 record will guarantee promotion to within the top thirty members, so two successive 7–0 records will allow a makushita wrestler to ...