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Less than two weeks after the sole yokozuna retired from the sport, the Japan Sumo Association on Jan. 29 filled the void by promoting Hoshoryu, 25, to be the 74th yokozuna. The JSA decision came ...
Mongolian ozeki Hoshoryu earned his second Emperor's Cup and promotion to yokozuna Sunday by winning the New Year Grand Sumo Tourname ...
FUKUOKA--Yokozuna Terunofuji clinched the Kyushu Grand ... This is the first time in two years for a sumo tournament to be held in Fukuoka. Last year’s tournament was held in Tokyo instead ...
That was the last word many of ... a Japanese movie monster, Yokozuna simply dominated. He heaved Randy Savage over the top rope to win the 1993 Royal Rumble Match and then decimated American ...
The highlight match of the competition took place on ... consecutive titles since making his debut at the top rank. The last yokozuna to accomplish the feat was Taiho in 1962.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Sumo Association officially approved Mongolian wrestler Hoshoryu's promotion to yokozuna, the sport's highest rank, at an extraordinary board meeting Wednesday.
The ancient Japanese sport faced the rare prospect of having no wrestler at the grand master level when Terunofuji, the only active yokozuna, said this month that he was retiring. The last time sumo ...
Suffering from pain in both knees and chronic diabetes, Terunofuji fully competed in only two of the six grand tournaments last year. Since being promoted to the rank of yokozuna in July 2021 ...
The 33-year-old Mongolian-born wrestler, suffering from pain in both knees and chronic diabetes, fully competed in only two of the six grand tournaments last year. Since becoming yokozuna in ...
Terunofuji has been sumo's lone yokozuna since the September 2021 retirement of Hakuho, who had a record 45 tournament victories. Terunofuji completed just two of six tournaments last year as he dealt ...