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In sumo, Chiyonofuji is remembered as one of the sport's greatest yokozuna — a wrestler who won 31 yusho and put together a 53-bout winning streak despite competing at a far lighter weight than his rivals. He was the first wrestler to re...

To watch sumo live in Japan, plan around one of the six honbasho (grand tournaments) held each year. Three are in Tokyo at the Ryogoku Kokugikan (January, May and September), the others in Osaka (March), Nagoya (July) and Fukuoka (Novemb...

Sumo rules come down to one short contest with one goal: force your opponent out of the ring, or make any part of his body other than the soles of his feet touch the ground. Whoever does that first wins. There are no rounds and no points...

A yokozuna is the highest rank in professional sumo — the grand champion who stands above every other wrestler on the ranking sheet. Unlike the ranks below it, a yokozuna can never be demoted: a grand champion who can no longer perform a...

Hakuho is the greatest yokozuna in sumo history. A yokozuna is the highest rank in professional sumo, and Hakuho holds its defining records: 45 top-division championships, 1,187 career wins, and 16 perfect 15-0 tournaments — all all-time...

In sumo, Takerufuji is a thrust-and-push wrestler of Isegahama stable who reached the top makuuchi division in eight tournaments from his debut without a single losing record, and then won the championship in his first tournament there —...

Terunofuji was the 73rd yokozuna, and his career is the greatest comeback modern sumo has produced: an ozeki who fell to jonidan, the second-lowest division, and climbed all the way back to the top of the sport. He won ten championships,...

Kisenosato was the 72nd yokozuna and the first Japanese-born wrestler promoted to the rank in nineteen years. He won the championship in his first tournament as a yokozuna, in March 2017 — and never won another. Injury took the next two ...

Hoshoryu is the 74th yokozuna in sumo history and the sixth born in Mongolia. He fights for Tatsunami stable, and he is a nephew of the former yokozuna Asashoryu. He was promoted after winning the January 2025 tournament and made his deb...

In sumo, Takakeisho was a powerful thrust-and-push specialist who, at just 22, became one of the youngest ozeki in recent memory. This page captures the moment his promotion to sumo's second-highest rank was made official, with yokozuna ...