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  2. Hiro Morita - Wikipedia

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    He has been a play-by-play announcer since 1999, and since 2016 he has covered sumo tournament news, including host of the program Grand Sumo Preview and color commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [1] [3] [5] He is one of a roster of English-language play-by-play announcers for sumo tournaments that air live on NHK.

  3. Ross Mihara - Wikipedia

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    He is currently the longest-serving commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [9] In 2007, Mihara was appointed as one of the anchors of NHK Newsline. [3] He also served as NHK's English-language speed skating commentator during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and baseball commentator. [10]

  4. 2024 in sumo - Wikipedia

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    A sumo wrestler from Ukraine is one of three new promotions by the Sumo Association to the second-highest jūryō division for the November 2024 tournament. 20-year-old Aonishiki, a third-place finisher in the 2019 World Junior Sumo Championships, moved to Japan in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the six tournaments since his ...

  5. Sumo retirees play for laughs from tourists flooding back to ...

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    Theo, a nine-year-old child from Australia, tries to spar against former sumo wrestler Towanoyama in the sumo ring at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan on June 30, 2023.

  6. Top-ranked sumo wrestler set to retire: NHK - AOL

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    Japan’s top-ranked sumo wrestler is set to retireSource: NHKHakuho holds a record 45 tournament winsThe Mongolian native made his sumo debut in 2001He achieved the top rank of yokozuna in May ...

  7. List of sumo tournament top division champions - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Professional sumo divisions - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Honbasho - Wikipedia

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    A honbasho (Japanese: 本場所), or Grand Sumo Tournament in English, is an official professional sumo tournament. Only honbasho results matter in determining promotion and relegation for rikishi (sumo wrestlers) on the banzuke ranking.