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The Sumo Association have overseen all promotions since Chiyonoyama's in 1951. Two consecutive tournament championships or an "equivalent performance" at ōzeki level are the minimum requirement for promotion to yokozuna in modern sumo. The longest serving yokozuna ever was Hakuhō, who was promoted in 2007 and retired in 2021. [1]
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received yokozuna licenses from Gojo family and Yoshida family: Tsurugizan Taniemon: 1827-3 1852-2 Ōzeki Onomatsu: offered a yokozuna license but rejected it: Hidenoyama Raigorō: 1828-3 1850-3 Yokozuna Hidenoyama: shortest yokozuna ever, wrestlers outside his stable once staged a strike against his authority: Shiranui Dakuemon: 1830-11 1844-1 ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... List of sumo record holders; List of yokozuna This page was last edited on 18 April 2022 ...
Wrestlers who went on to be promoted to yokozuna are tabulated in the list of yokozuna. [2] Active wrestlers (September 2024) are indicated by italics. 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 ...
Yokozuna was eliminated via double count-out after brawling with the Undertaker outside of the ring; the All-Americans went on to win the match. [26] Yokozuna's next title challenger was The Undertaker, whom he was eventually forced to accept a casket match with. [2]
Wakanohana was promoted to yokozuna in January 1958, shortly after he took his second tournament championship. He was the first yokozuna produced by the Nishonoseki ichimon or group of stables in over 20 years and consequently had to borrow the keshō-mawashi of the former Futabayama to perform his first yokozuna dohyō-iri or ring entering ...
Tochigiyama only lost 23 times while an active sumo wrestler in the top makuuchi division, and only eight times during his seven years as yokozuna. His top division winning percentage was 87.8. In addition, his winning percentage as yokozuna reached 93.5, the fourth best in history after Jinmaku, Tachiyama and Tanikaze. [2] [4]