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Chiyonofuji was the 58th yokozuna, sumo's highest rank, and held it from 1981 to 1991. The Japan Sumo Association credits him with 31 top-division championships and 1,045 career wins. Number and web Sportiva call him by his nickname, "th...

Konishiki was the first foreign wrestler to reach ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank, in July 1987. He won three top-division championships but was never promoted to yokozuna, the highest rank. He retired in November 1997 and became a TV ...

Hoshoryu is the 74th yokozuna, sumo's highest rank, and one of the two wrestlers who held that rank in 2026. He has won two top-division championships, the second of which earned his promotion in January 2025. A right knee injury then fo...

Hakuho is the 69th yokozuna, sumo's highest rank, and the record holder for top-division championships with 45. He fought from 2001 to 2021, finished with 1,187 career wins, and left the Japan Sumo Association altogether in June 2025. Th...

Takakeisho retired in September 2024 as a former ozeki, the second-highest rank in professional sumo, and today runs a stable of his own. He held that rank across two separate spells, won four top-division championships, and left the rin...

Wakatakakage has won the Emperor's Cup twice, and both times he did it from a rank below the sport's second-highest. The Japan Sumo Association credits the Arashio stable wrestler with 420 wins, 261 losses and 95 absences as of Day 8 of ...

Terunofuji retired in January 2025 and now runs the Isegahama stable as an elder of the Japan Sumo Association. He was the 73rd yokozuna, the highest rank in the sport, and he reached it only after dropping from the second-highest rank a...

Sumo wrestlers are called rikishi, and on the September 2026 ranking sheet there are exactly 593 of them. Only 70 are paid. This directory names every one of those 70 by rank, stable and birthplace, links each to his official profile, an...

A rikishi is a professional sumo wrestler, and there are fewer of them than most people assume. The July 2026 ranking sheet lists 590 men across six divisions, from the top-division wrestlers you see on television down to teenagers who f...