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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.
Tournaments Pro Debut Top division debut Highest rank 1 Hoshiiwato: 115: May 1970: July 1989: Maegashira 14 2 Kyokunankai: 105: March 1993: September 2010: Maegashira 16 3 Yoshiazuma: 93: January 1996: September 2011: Maegashira 12 4 Kotokasuga: 91: March 1993: May 2008: Maegashira 7 5 Kototsubaki: 89: March 1976: January 1991: Maegashira 3 6 ...
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 ...
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 33 bouts over three consecutive tournaments.
Takerufuji becomes the first wrestler in the modern era to win a title in his top division debut. Ōnosato wins two titles, the first in only his seventh tournament as a professional and becomes the fastest wrestler to achieve the rank of ōzeki in the modern era. 52nd yokozuna Kitanofuji and 64th yokozuna Akebono die.
Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current January/Hatsu 2025 banzuke, by clicking the 'Current rank' sorting button.; The East side of the banzuke is regarded as more prestigious than the West side and those ranked on the East will generally have had a slightly better record in the previous tournament than those with the same rank on the West.
This is the only division that is featured on standard NHK's live coverage of sumo tournaments and is broadcast bilingually. The lower divisions are covered only on streaming services like Abema . The name makuuchi literally means "inside the curtain", a reference to the early period of professional sumo, when the top ranked wrestlers were able ...
28: The Sumo Association announces that Rōga and Tsushimanada will be the two sumo wrestlers promoted to the second-highest jūryō division for the November tournament. Rōga is the first sumo wrestler from Russia to be newly promoted to jūryō since Amūru in 2012, and becomes the first sekitori for Futagoyama stable since its establishment ...